• bearwithastick@feddit.ch
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    1 year ago

    What I really, really do not understand about these companies is that they could have easily played both sides and come up on top anyway. They could have continued to make a shit ton of money with oil and simultaniously invest in renewable energies and become the big players in that field too.

    But I guess paying off corrupt politicans is much easier.

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Change costs $.

      Doesn’t matter if it’s 1970 or today.

      Plus they’d be bucking all the other petro companies trying to sway public opinion in favor of the status quo.

      So they went with cheap and easy.

      And here we are.