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This isn't great news for those who care about global warming, nothing drives cleaner fuel technologies better than high hydrocarbon prices.
by screwston 10y ago
This isn't great news for those who care about global warming, nothing drives cleaner fuel technologies better than high hydrocarbon prices.
- vkou 10y agoThis isn't great news for those who 'don't care' about global warming - people hungry for fossil fuel jobs, either.
- Eridrus 10y agoIt's becoming less and less obvious that anyone in a position of power advocating for fossil fuel energy actually cares about the jobs.
- pm90 10y agoIt was always rather transparent that the "jobs" angle was a play by big oil to stoke populism for an objectively unpopular agenda (i.e. more drilling, extraction pollution). Once automation removes the need for low skilled laborers I would think this tactic would not be available anymore (but who knows, in this era of alternative facts).
- cestith 10y agoLots of jobs in gas and oil are very highly skilled jobs. Automating the stuff that's high paying because it's risky, dirty, and far from the workers' homes will increase pay imbalances as the software developers, automation folks, sysadmins, robotics engineers, mechanical engineers, petroleum engineers, geologists, executives, et al will continue to get their pay and probably more while anyone automated away who doesn't retrain will make far less in another role.
- vkou 10y agoWell, of course. Jobs are a cost center - and the people advocating hardest for fossil fuels are resource companies.
- mac01021 10y agoThe fewer jobs they're creating, the less pull they have with congress...
- neolefty 10y agoThat's the useful fiction. Reality: Dollars contributed to campaigns.
- mac01021 10y agoI've never been able to get a clear picture of how dollars translate to votes. Especially given the prevalence of "safe districts" where one party has very solid footing, it seems hard to believe that campaign funding is all that important.