Telling people that we WILL freeze in the dark for the next 40 years UNLESS we rapidly change policies,
There are an awful lot of people telling politicians and tradmeds that there is no such inevitability. If they don't believe it, why should they risk their electability ?
They are backward looking people, solving yesterday's problems, not tomorrows. They are lawyers, for whom there is always a counter argument. They are economists for whom nothing is true unless it is measureably demonstrable on a balance sheet, FUD (future undetermined or Fear, uncertainty doubt) is not a quantity. What they re no are visionaries, they cannot project forward beyond the next electoral cycle. They cannot do the right thing if it loses them an election, they dare not. keep to the Fen Causeway
Plus, if OPEC doesn't agree to ship more oil to the U.S. so we can keep on with our current "lifestyle," we will SUE them. So there!
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation on Tuesday allowing the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for limiting oil supplies and working together to set crude prices, but the White House threatened to veto the measure. The bill would subject OPEC oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela, to the same antitrust laws that U.S. companies must follow. The measure passed in a 324-84 vote, a big enough margin to override a presidential veto.
The bill would subject OPEC oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela, to the same antitrust laws that U.S. companies must follow.
The measure passed in a 324-84 vote, a big enough margin to override a presidential veto.
