Dear Editor:
Cleaner alternatives to oil-based energy are available, but at a price that is presently not competitive with the fossil fuel industry.
That’s because of an unlevel economic playing field deliberately put in place by an endless succession of politicians who are in bed with a few rich oil executives and their shareholders but who are out of touch with the vast number of common people who disproportionately bear the cost of these insane policies, such as resource give-aways, subsidies, tax breaks, accepting campaign donations, revolving door job security and other forms of bribery.
How can renewable resource research, development and implementation compete with this kind of deceit?
The true societal costs of oil energy usage, including finite resource depletion, cleanup of pollution, mitigation of harms to agriculture etc due to climate instability, should be paid up front by all marketers and users of oil energy.
This true-cost pricing of oil usage would encourage cleaner alternative energy use, slow down the harms to climate stability and restore the ability of natural processes to keep up with the need to return carbon back to the soil (in forests, etc.).
To continue as we have been doing, using up the resource as quickly as possible to make a few people insanely rich, while deferring the ultimate costs onto everyone else, is folly for the survival of our civilization.
For your own benefit and interest you may want to look up “The Climate Deception Dossiers.”
Leigh Czombos,
Belwood