A Comment on “Big Oil: Be Honest”

In a post the other day I wrote:  Big Oil’s only interest at this point is maintaining its revenue and profit stream indefinitely,  But as time passes, this will be increasingly difficult, and will require feeding the public more propaganda.

A reader responded:  Be honest? Take your own advice. Do you think you can farm without nitrogen? Where do you think 100% of nitrogen fertilizer comes from? Natural gas. Fact is, we will always be dependent on fossil fuels to some extent.

I very much doubt it.  If we still have a civilization here at the end of this century, it will be because we successfully decarbonized our transportation and energy sectors with renewables and nuclear.   We need an energy policy that transitions away from fossil fuels as quickly and completely as feasible.