Saudi Arabia is driving a huge global investment plan to create demand for its oil and gas in developing countries, an undercover investigation has revealed. Critics said the plan was designed to get countries “hooked on its harmful products”.
Little was known about the oil demand sustainability programme (ODSP) but the investigation obtained detailed information on plans to drive up the use of fossil fuel-powered cars, buses and planes in Africa and elsewhere, as rich countries increasingly switch to clean energy.
And what about the other companies in that vertical? Do they get a pass too?
Great, we have the “what about X” comment. Now we just need “China pollutes more than US” and “I can’t buy an EV because I drive 10.000 miles a day” comment and we can close this thread.
I commute to the moon and back uphill every single day. Battery power and ion drives just won’t cut it. That’s why I need a coal powered car.
It’s usually the other way around on the china argument. “but the USA does imperialism too!”