Sanders: 'To hell with the fossil fuel industry’

[JDPriestly]

28. We should have told the fossil fuel industry to go to Hell about 40 years ago.

It is irresponsible to treat them with any respect. They do not treat the environment that we rely on for our lives with any respect at all.

We have to move much more quickly to ending our reliance on fossil fuels. The sooner the better. Fossil fuels will become economically impractical for much of mankind before very long anyway. The oil being drilled for now is harder to bring up than the oil we used in the 1960s. Our cars, etc. are more fuel-efficient. But fuel efficiency will not save us. We have to develop other forms of fuel. This is less of a problem here in Southern California than it is in say the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

But pussy-footing around and being polite with the oil industry is foolish.

I remember when a barrel of crude oil cost $3.25 to $4.50. That was in 1972-73.

The oil crisis sent that price up. I remember that quite clearly because I worked in a job that required me to know a lot about crude oil prices.

Today a barrel of crude oil is about $40.39. It has been higher.

http://www.oil-price.net/