Communities that use oil and gas can't ban it and say someone else has to produce it for them... We are consumers demanding a product and demanding it at a very affordable price. We know how sensitive consumers are to changes in their heating bill and their gasoline bill... I think a better paradigm is we are totally interdependent on oil and gas, and vilifying it is simply silly and a very lazy way of trying to address climate change.

Consumers want cheap energy. So no, I won't vilify her or the fossil fuel industries for supplying that energy, I won't even fault them for fighting regulations that would hurt their bottom lines.

What I do take issue with is the fact that the she and her industry seem to be in denial about the real hidden costs of what they are producing.

The cost of dealing with the damage fossil fuels are causing needs to be tacked onto their products, likely in the form of a tax, so that the true costs are represented. That's going to make fossil energy a far less attractive option, but it needs to happen, because the way things are going now the government and consumers are effectively subsidizing the entire industry. It's socialism at it's worst - privatizing the gains and distributing the losses (take that conservatives who think global warming is an anti-capitalist conspiracy).

Think of it this way, say I owned a factory. I discover a way to produce my product insanely cheaply. The only problem is to produce it so cheaply I generate a shit load of toxic waste that I dump into the river that the community gets to deal with and pays to clean up. Is my product really that cheap? Shouldn't I be held accountable for the mess I'm making?