What Clean Energy Transition?

Longview, Washington. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.

An atypical optimism reigned at CounterPunch Thursday last, with a lead story bearing the silver-lined header “Oil Wars: Speeding The Transition to Renewable Energy.” In this gladsome piece, John K. White, a physicist and former lecturer at University College Dublin, opined that because the price of oil is now soaring while the price of solar panels is holding steady, the ongoing “rush to renewables will grow,” “more countries will think seriously...