Big oil begins a soft pull back from green energy initiatives

The green energy insanity has been ongoing for about a decade or so now, with big time energy companies trying to virtue signal, and cave to all the demands of climate activists. They, and the previous Democrat administration, have demanded they use "clean" energy like wind turbines, and solar, to supply Americans. But anyone with any basic logic knows none of these things work.

In fact, the carbon footprint of making these wind farms has had devastating consequences on farmland, and in cases of ocean wind farm, on the sea life. On top of that, they don't produce near enough power to supply places like Texas, or any major population center. Yet people keep demanding this in some vain attempt to push their climate change nonsense.

But as the new era of the second President Trump term begins, the big oil companies are starting to pull back on their green energy pushes. Many websites, like BP's, have already taken down pictures of wind farms on their websites. Linnea Lueken of the Heartland Institute says many have also begun removing funding for these green projects. But the main question is will it continue?

"It remains to be seen whether or not this is a true change of heart, or just flowing with the wind," she says.

Billions has been spent by these companies to reduce emissions and bring forward some platform of green energy that does not work. Meanwhile, even after reducing their footprint, the climate crazies still want more, and more.

It then led to stringent regulations being placed upon the industry, from which they continue to struggle. Not to mention the hundreds of lawsuits filed by climate activists against companies, which has kept them from producing as they should.

There is a path though to a revival of American energy, and a move away from these ridiculous initiatives.

"A lot of the issues facing the industry, and investment into the infrastructure, has a lot more to do with lawfare rather than regulation," she says. "If we can get the regulation off their backs and get solid wins in the courts...I think we will be on the right track."

But as many corporations are seeing now, it is a long road back from the depths of the Leftist cave.

"The American Petroleum Institute campaigns for carbon taxes...if that does not give you an indicator of how bad it has been, I don't know what else would," she says.

Maybe it is a permanent shift, maybe it is just companies blowing whichever way the winds are going. It is hard to tell if big oil has truly reeled back its position on green policies. But at least the road back to normalcy, and unleashing American energy, is lit up again.