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How Ironic of Big Oil

On By CCLATXIn Carbon Capture, CCLATXLeave a comment

Re: Dec. 21 art­icle, “Car­bon cap­ture projects are meet­ing new res­ist­ance”

Big Oil’s own sci­ent­ists were aware since the 1970s that burn­ing their fuels would cause Earth to get sig­ni­fic­antly hot­ter. The sweet ambro­sia of profit being as irres­ist­ible as it is, they ignored their own sci­ent­ists’ warn­ings, and spent mil­lions dis­sem­in­at­ing pro­pa­ganda, deny­ing global warm­ing was occur­ring or belittling its impacts; and now they spend bil­lions on car­bon cap­ture.

Might even they see the irony? Pull in tril­lions of dol­lars push­ing the oil and gas that warms the world while deny­ing it mat­ters, and then more tril­lions in cap­tur­ing a tiny per­cent­age of the car­bon diox­ide pro­duced by burn­ing their oil and gas. Talk about hav­ing your cake and eat­ing it, too.

Mark War­ren, Aus­tin, Texas

Published in the Austin American-Statesman January 4, 2026

LTE Under Consideration: It is Time for Carbon Pricing

On By CCLATXIn Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend ActLeave a comment

Biden’s ambitious efforts have been welcomed by the climate scientists and environmentalists but criticized by the fossil fuel industry. Trends are changing. An official with the U. S. Chamber of Commerce which represents many major American corporations said it “supports a market-based approach to accelerate greenhouse gas emissions reductions across the U. S. economy.” This is a shift in policy. American Petroleum Institute is willing to review market-based carbon pricing options as reported by Wall Street Journal.

Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend act is a policy endorsed by leaders of both parties. It would create jobs, reduce emissions while helping low income households. There are other which would create job training programs, promote clean energy sources, carbon capture and energy storage technologies.

We want a thoughtful mix of policies that will reduce harmful emissions while addressing fossil fuel industry’s job losses, environmental justice and health issues to meet climate goals.

Kalpana Sutaria

Submitted to the Austin American-Statesman

March 11, 2021