Sunday, March 22, 2015

Too Much Oil - Matt Huber

Why people must organize to demand transformation to renewable energy.  The private fossil fuel and utility industries will never do it on their own.  Nor will the market save us.  Nor will technology alone.

Too Much Oil - Matt Huber - Jacobin Mag
"A left approach to energy must take its provision back from the market, prioritizing ecological and social welfare over price signals. Energy should be viewed as something akin to education, health care, or water sanitation: something so fundamental to the collective good that it cannot be ceded to market forces and the profit motive. Yet unfortunately, market prices have, more than anything else, guided US energy policy over the last few decades."