Just a footnote: oil shale and tar sands were considered too dirty when I was in high school in the early 1990s, because they require the same order of magnitud

Just a footnote: oil shale and tar sands were considered too dirty when I was in high school in the early 1990s, because they require the same order of magnitude of energy to extract as the oil itself contains. The Bush v Gore Supreme Court decision in 2000 was largely about if we were going to double down on fossil fuels or transition to renewables IMHO. As usual, the US made the.. let's just say not progressive choice. Tons of documentaries talk about these sorts of unforced errors that get buried under revisionist history: https://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com https://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com