Gasblighting: blaming the industry for policies meant to obliterate it

Gasblighting : (noun) remaining deliberately obtuse about the oil & gas industry, while blaming the industry for one’s own government policy dictates that are openly declared to have the objective of obliterating the oil & gas industry.

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“There are degrees of ignorance, and different kinds of ignorance as well. The most benign, so to speak, is age-related ignorance. The younger you are, the more ignorant because you simply haven’t had time to learn as much as someone twice your age.

The most malign kind of ignorance, and the one that tends to manifest itself at the highest degree as well is the deliberate, obstinate refusal to learn something. It is the direct refusal to acknowledge that something even exists. And it is the sort of ignorance that is being demonstrated by both the Biden administration and their European Union friends. …”

irinaslav.substack.com ↗

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  1. Tom Kirkman

    Irina Slav, my off the cuff, invented definition for gasblighting is a bit too wordy and clunky. Any wordsmithing suggestions?

  2. Tom Kirkman

    Reminder from 2020.

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