In Europe:
"Increasingly, conspiratorial influencers who built large audiences during the #Covid-19 pandemic have turned to false and misleading claims about the #climate.
When the farmers’ protests broke out, these influencers sought to co-opt them into the “climate culture wars,” framing the complex demands of farmers into a reductive anti-net zero narrative.
The jump from anti-immigrant fearmongering to hoaxes around #ClimateChange is also happening in France."
While many influencers have been paid to promote Big Oil talking points (like in the above articles) some influencers probably do this simply because they know that their followers keep coming back for conspiracy theories.
@CelloMomOnCars See, if they were really smart, they wouldn’t be denying climate change… they’d be acknowledging it and figuring out how to profit from it. Suckers. /s
But think about it: No gasoline, no oil revenues.
It's really that simple: they're fighting for their lives. They're scrabbling for a toehold with "carbon capture and storage" -- which isn't a Thing -- and of course, plastics.
It’s a transition. They know how much oil, shale, coal they have left to refine; in the states the refining might bring more profits than fracking, etc, anyway. In the meantime, they have a lot of real estate retail locations and convenience stores to feed. They may become purely landlords.
And fossil fuels use is not going to dead stop even in the most idyllic situations. Airlines aren’t going anywhere. You can’t have electric planes and rockets.