Chris Hayes hit the nail on the head, and with some emotion.
Every day we hear about the high price of gasoline and diesel, in the context of the war with Iran and the Strait of Hormuz. Every day, day in and day out.
Mr. Hayes finally named the irony of it all—that, day in and day out, much is made of high gas prices, but people keep buying gasoline, no matter how high the price goes. They keep complaining, day in and day out, but the price seldom responds to the protest.
As Hayes reminds us, this is not new ground. We’ve been here before, we’ve been complaining off and on about the high cost of fossil fuels for over 50 years, and we just keep paying for it, even as there are viable energy alternatives that have been knocking on the door for decades now. We’ve had unending opportunity to wean ourselves from the fossil fuel teat, but the powers that be won’t let it happen—even though there is a certain inevitability regarding our vulnerability to exactly what’s going on now: political unrest and war. And let us not forget the mounting environmental damage!
The Trump administration is in the pockets of the fossil fuel behemoths, who very well may be seeing writing on the wall but are flush with cash and able to lobby their way out of one tight corner after another.
At some point hopefully soon, one might think we reach a tipping point, a point of no return, when forces and realities conspire to render the fossil fuel hold-outs, well, fossils.
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