Fossil fuel industry may go the way of Polaroid.

The fossil fuel industry could go the way of Kodak and Polaroid when they failed to adapt to digital photography.

In the past, people might have accused me of being an apologist for that industry as I thought they were trying to adapt to clean energy sourcing when British Petroleum changed it's name to "Beyond Petroleum."

I thought consumers were more to blame being slow to adopt alternatives, thus driving market forces.

Now, in the era of Trump, it looks like the establishment is rededicating America to a fossil fuel economy. Stupid.

I can see the reality that fossil fuel infrastructure is still useful given the way things are today. It can maybe even be somewhat beneficial to the environment such as replacing coal with natural gas, or replacing dirty overseas fossil fuel with fuel produced in USA under higher environmental standards; for production at least.

Still, carbon dioxide looks and smells deceptively clean, but mass production of carbon dioxide, by consumers burning fossil fuels drives climate change.