Doug Wilson
1 min readSep 17, 2023

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Yes, you.

You presented zero data to back up your claims. I presented data ... but you "find it suspect". No reason why (other than that it disagrees with what you've decided is the truth).

There's a "SOURCES" tab at the bottom of the graph BTW, but you have zero interest in looking for it or clicking it because it's easier to simply "find it suspect".

"The Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy™ analyses data on world energy markets from the prior year. Previously produced by bp, the Review has been providing timely, comprehensive and objective data to the energy community since 1952." The report is funded by BP, KPMG, Kearney, and Heriot Watt University with campuses in the UK and Saudi Arabia. If anything, the conclusions drawn from the data, which apparently only you "find suspect" are conservative.

And your credentials in the energy industry and data analytics are?

Whether you choose to believe it or not, fossil fuel use has been in decline for the last ten years, along with a corresponding increase in renewables like solar and wind.

So, yeah. You. You and people like you, who insist on basing their own conclusions on their own experience rather than looking at the data are a big part of the reason the shift away from fossil fuels is happening so slowly.

What you believe is demonstrably incorrect. And yet you continue to make public statements to the contrary. You probably vote this way too.

And FWIW, I too find your writing incomprehensible.

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Doug Wilson
Doug Wilson

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Doug Wilson is an experienced software application architect, music lover, problem solver, former film/video editor, philologist, and father of four.

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