What Would It Take to Defeat Big Oil? A Progressive Economist Weighs In

20 Apr 2023 | Abstracted from Truthout

"As long as there is no ambitious turn away from fossil-fuel reliant transport, power, heat and industrial processes, it’s easy to blame oil producers...oil and gas companies are doing everything they can to maintain demand for their product.

"So far, the low-carbon transition does not look to be a leveler of the inequalities, but rather to reinforce them."

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