I’m so sick of hearing people say that corporations are unable to see beyond their short-term profit greed. Actually, corporations can be quite visionary.
As when Teddy Roosevelt's Progressive Business movement early in the 20th century established the Corporate elite we "enjoy" being fucked over by today. These guys fully understood the importance of social control versus profiteering. Coopting labor and convincing people they could get their needs met without really organizing (no, young Skywalker, once the Wobblies were disposed of American labor was never a real grassroots operation) was a major priority.
There is no doubt that a paradigm change is coming in regard to how we use energy in this country, and that the CEOs will bring it about. The only thing surprising to me is that their commitment to this change is leaking out. Based on their history, it would seem very much in the corporate interest for the citizenry to remain convinced that environmental warming is an issue manufactured by liberals. The last thing the CEOs want us doing is organizing, and if it looks like we might, they damned well want to control the process. When the shit already hitting the fan is so thick we can no longer breathe through it, they need to be able to pull the rug out from under us so fast we won't be able to convert our rejection of denial, finally, into real action.
The one thing you can be certain of is that the discomforts sure to be a consequence of the paradigm shift will fall entirely upon our shoulders. If we don't like it .... don't even think about the Bill of Rights. It's already gone. Who do you think orchestrated that development? The halfwitted incumbent? Or a totally visionary corporate elite?
Is it too much to ask progressive democratic candidates for president to address this issue?