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NNadir

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2. Of course Saudi Arabia can run a stupid marketing exercise for fossil fuels. They have natural gas, and hydrogen...

Reply to Caribbeans (Original post)

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 07:04 AM

Yesterday

...is overwhelmingly made from natural gas with exergy destruction.

A Giant Climate Lie: When they're selling hydrogen, what they're really selling is fossil fuels.

Hydrogen always has been, is and always will be an exercise for marketing fossil fuels, here, and everywhere.

From our "friends: at Exxon, Exxon rebranding fossil fuels as hydrogen:

I will say, given the constant effort here to rebrand dangerous fossil fuels as "hydrogen," this particular ad is slightly more honest than the rest of them, for instance rebranding Chinese coal and "hydrogen" since Saudi Arabia is clearly a nation run and financed by fossil fuels.

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Of course Saudi Arabia can run a stupid marketing exercise for fossil fuels. They have natural gas, and hydrogen... NNadir Yesterday #2