'What the 'bridge fuel' fantasy always ignored was the terrible impacts that gas has up and down its supply chain.'
on Big Oil disinformation is that the oil industry never saw methane, what they euphemistically rebranded"natural gas," as a"bridge fuel" to a clean energy future: they always saw it as a"destination," an ongoing addiction they planned to do everything in their power to maintain.
For years, oil companies, politicians, and even some environmental groups, promoted gas as a"bridge fuel" to a clean energy future, the idea being that gas could help"bridge the gap" between an energy system stuck on coal and renewable energy that wasn't ready for prime time.
Even as these impacts became unignorable, and the price of renewables and batteries rapidly dropped, making them the cheapest source of new energy, the fossil fuel industry worked hard to not only maintain the"bridge fuel" narrative—but simultaneously try and reframe gas as not only a"bridge" but a"destination."
Other documents show the great lengths the industry has gone to try and make gas a permanent part of our energy mix. In 2021, the American Petroleum Institute released what was branded as a comprehensive"Climate Action Framework," but according to internal emails obtained by the committee, the real purpose of the framework was"the continued promotion of natural gas in a carbon constrained world.
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