Sean CastenThis Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/opinion/democrats-liberals-oil-gas-industry.html
1. First: the elephant in the room that he doesn't mention explicitly but haunts the whole piece: climate change is real, we've already overshot and the only way to turn the corner is to leave fossil fuel in the ground. To ignore that is to talk about rocketry and ignore gravity.
Steve Moore 
@SeanCasten Thank you for constructing this thread, the more folks know about the machinations of fossil fuels, the more likely they will understand the need to leave ffs in the ground. Refinery capabilities of light vs heavy crude, what they churn out, where they are, & the transport of crude to them, is another aspect that needs more illumination.