A follow-up to this article about abandoned wells. It is a significant problem -- and the laws were all written to simply allow drillers to easily abandon them and allow the leaking wells to toxically pollute the land without remedy. State's 'shockingly inadequate' policies allow Big Oil to abandon wells, poisoning family farms: 'An outrageous arrangement that needs to end' https://www.yahoo.com/news/states-shockingly-inadequate-policies-allow-013000848.html
I believe that most folks would not have been able to afford fossil fuel energy if a full accounting of burning it had been done. The laws of thermodynamics are pretty clear and cannot be broken. Entropy. You can't win. You can't break even. You can't even quit the game.
New study finds that, yes, the Earth is warming at a record rate. However, the pace of climate change itself is not accelerating. Sounds like we're all good, then, right? DRILL BABY DRILL New study finds Earth warming at record rate, but no evidence of climate change accelerating https://apnews.com/article/climate-...d-hot-deadly-434881547b4585a32fa906cf5495d3f0
Carbon Capture is pure nonsense shoveled by oil companies as a "climate change fix". Everyone with common sense already knew this. Oil companies sold the public on a fake climate solution — and swindled taxpayers out of billions The fossil fuel industry’s carbon capture bamboozle, explained. https://www.vox.com/climate/363076/climate-change-solution-shell-exxon-mobil-carbon-capture (Lengthy article)