Scott, you response prompted me to dig even deeper, and I think I was too quick to connect lines between the dots. I edited my original post as it seems an over reach of what I know to be true.

You commented that I have biases... which of course is true. We all have biases far stronger and more nuanced that we imagine them to be. Still I have actually marched in protests against other wars America has been involved in, so at least my biases are not a simple pro-aggression pro-American stance.

I did some looking online regarding methane leaks. Many sources say the amount of leaks are quite small and this is not a factor. But other sources say that for convenience oil companies will sometimes intentionally vent enoumous amounts when repairing the pipes, etc. So this issue is not without some concern.

Also notice methane is a massive greenhouse gas, but unlike CO2 which remains for centuries or millennia, methane leaves the atomosphere in a decade.

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If I were king for a day, I would drive UP natural gas production as it is cleaner than coal (which is still burnt in the world), its infrastructure costs are smaller than other cleaner tech.

At the same time I would massively increase spending on R&D in clean tech. nearing a trillion dollars a year world wide. At that rate we could drive the cost of one clean tech or another well below petroleum quickly.

As technologies became very competitive with oil I would shift that spending towards subsidies for quick adoption.

alas I am not king.