Global Warmists Worst Nightmare Is Upon Them

Talk about a smart move. The Oil & Gas industry is partnering with fifteen labor unions (small frys like the Teamsters and the AFL-CIO) to jointly lobby in Washington DC. The O&G industry has been a whipping boy for so long but the last several years has seen new lows in their status due to intense environmental zealotry and a savvy implanting of the global warmist agenda into the core of the Democratic party platform. With Dems holding all the cards in DC, the O&G industry is being beaten into the bloody ground with targeted, punitive tax and regulatory policies - at least the domestic O&G guys, bigger players can just choose to take their money and jobs abroad - and there doesn't look like much relief in sight with, it seems, every Democrat in the country sounding like Al Gore. So how do you counter these torrential policy headwinds? Well, you team up with those that the Dems heart more than they heart the global warmists. No, not abortion doctors or South American dictators - LABOR UNIONS, dummy! And what a symbiotic relationship it is. The unions are bleeding private sector membership and will continue to bleed as the unionized auto sector loses marketshare to the non-unionized sector. The O&G industry is probably the single best shot in the private sector that unions have of getting some membership growth. The industry needs lots of technically skilled labor for unpleasant work that is difficult to automate. For their part, the oilys know how to keep the unions from bankrupting them like they did the car companies and airlines, so there is no deal with the devil here. It's a brilliant move and a powerful combination. The global warmists ought to be very worried, jobs trump tree-hugging every time.