Of course cronyism is “unusually safe.” If you have to actually compete by producing energy at the lowest price, all kinds of things can go wrong. But if you can get in with the government, so that legislation requires everyone to pay extra for your product whether they want to or not, your investment is “unusually safe.” This is what cronyism–a polite word for corruption–is all about. It is the principal purpose of the modern environmental movement.
So dhey’re doing very well by doing “good.”
Which is both ironic and hypocritical, as Mark Morano pointed out on CNN the other night, given that they’re always accusing skeptics of taking money from the fossil industry.
As an environmentalist myself, I speak with some knowledge when I say that environmentalists aren’t as corrupt as they are naïve. They always assume that business interests are diametrically opposed with environmentalists and although this is sometimes the case, more often than not environmentalists Just choose to see evil in the oil and gas companies rather than admit to the fact that more common sense environmentalists have come to understand; the world needs fossil fuels until technology advances to the point where it can generate enough electricity to meet our needs without bankrupting consumers.