Opinion | Oil and Gas Companies Are Trying to Rig the Marketplace

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Many of us focused on the problem of climate change have been waiting for the day when renewable energy would become cheaper than fossil fuels.
54% : These and other renewable energy sources produced 30 percent of the world's electricity in 2023, which may also have been the year that greenhouse gas emissions in the power sector peaked.
52% : So you might reasonably conclude that the market is pivoting, and the end for fossil fuels is near.
51% : Instead, fossil fuel interests -- including think tanks, trade associations and dark money groups -- are often preventing the market from shifting to the lowest cost energy.
47% : What appear to be ordinary concerned citizens or groups making good-faith arguments about renewable energy are actually a well-funded effort to disseminate a lie.
43% : Researchers at Brown University have revealed a complex web of fossil fuel interests, climate-denial think tanks and community groups that are behind opposition to wind farms off New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
40% : They also spread misinformation: It's well documented that fossil fuel interests tried to convince the public that their products didn't cause climate change, in the same way that Big Tobacco tried to convince the public that its products didn't harm people's health.
34% : One technique the industry and its allies have used is to spread falsehoods -- for example, that offshore wind turbines kill whales or that renewable energy is prohibitively expensive -- to stop projects from getting built.

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