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> We saw how energy companies plowed right through public outcry and resistance in the Dakota Access Pipeline. In the US it got blown into something completely

• briandear 7y ago
  The president doesn't make decisions on pipelines. And as far as public outcry -- showing up to a protest doesn't make that the representative voice of the public. I support that pipeline because it's better than sending trucks and trains overland to ship energy. But was my voice counted? Not if using protests as a proxy for public opinion is how it's done. The oil company could use Star Trek teleportation technology and people would still protest it. They don't oppose the pipeline, they oppose what runs through it. Yet, they didn't all get to those protests in electric cars on on bicycles. They didn't tweet about it on stone tablets -- they use the very product they don't want people to use. Don't like oil? Stop benefiting from it while simultaneously hating it.
  • minikites 7y ago
    >Don't like oil? Stop benefiting from it while simultaneously hating it. You don't have a particularly compelling argument, as illustrated in this humorous cartoon: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha
  • munk-a 7y ago
    > Don't like oil? Stop benefiting from it while simultaneously hating it. As someone who doesn't drive and has opposed oil and natural gas based energy solutions thank you, I will.