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Dear Fossil Fuel supporters,
Are you finally convinced the Fat Lady is Singing?
Are you finally ready to accept reality?

Strategist says

Dear Fossil Fuel supporters,
Are you finally convinced the Fat Lady is Singing?
Are you finally ready to accept reality?

What are you talking about? Few people doubt that after 100 years of use, the gas engine isn't going to gradually be replaced by something new. Electric, fuel cell and hydrogen are the current contenders. If it is electric cars initially, we may see where most of the juice needed to charge the cars is generated by fossil fuels anyway.

Strategist says

Dear Fossil Fuel supporters,
Are you finally convinced the Fat Lady is Singing?
Are you finally ready to accept reality?

Fossil fuels still have a long run to go. More cars are sold in a day in countries around the world that can't afford to subsidize electric cars than are sold in a year in GB. There were 200k electric out of 17 million sold in the US. Do you really think there is going to be 10-15k subsidy for the 16.8 million other cars any time soon? Average income people aren't going to be popping 10-15k extra it costs for an electric car that isn't subsidized.

Before you go all eco zealot on me I am totally in favor of reducing fossil fuels. No one is going to eliminate them, things like large cargo ships and airplanes are very very unlikely to ever run on batteries or nuclear reactors. Barring some huge technological break through it's going to be a long haul in reducing fossil fuel consumption.

He's obviously mocking them.

HeadSet says

What are you talking about? Few people doubt that after 100 years of use, the gas engine isn't going to gradually be replaced by something new. Electric, fuel cell and hydrogen are the current contenders. If it is electric cars initially, we may see where most of the juice needed to charge the cars is generated by fossil fuels anyway.

No doubt that the "conventional internal combustion" car's supreme dominance is coming to an end, but please don't call electric or hybrid cars "something new." Check out, for example, the Lohner-Porscher ICE/electric hybrid from — yikes — 1900. (Yes, that Porsche.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohner-Porsche

Hassan_Rouhani says

He's obviously mocking them.

This part too?

Strategist says

Folks, when a Big Oil CEO calls for a ban on oil, you know it's all over.

please don't call electric or hybrid cars "something new."

Many years ago, when I was at a car museum next to Luray Caverns in VA, one of the many classic cars they had on display include a 1908 Baker Electric. It had a 48 volt electric motor and a top speed of 25 mph. According to the sign, this car was very popular with the ladies and during WW2, people who kept their electrics used them during time of gas rationing.