A Look at the West: With oil, gas down, where are the critics?

RBC I Just a few short years ago, the shrillest environmentalist voices targeted oil companies’ “obscene” profits. Today, American energy producers are swallowing big losses. Yet rather than celebrating, those same environmentalists have gone silent.

The reason: Their protestation about profits was disingenuous from the beginning. And now, they’ve moved on to other anti-oil arguments such as divestment and “keep it in the ground.”
It’s worth recalling just how frenzied the attacks on oil companies’…