Oil and gas should not be demonized, says Tesla chief

Tesla Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Elon Musk on Friday said that it is important to reduce carbon emissions to save the planet but oil and natural gas should not be demonized in the medium term.

Musk’s latest comment came during his interview session at the political festival Atreju organized by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Earlier this week, around 200 countries agreed at the COP28 climate summit to reduce global consumption of fossil fuels and its effect on climate.

Elon Musk at the political festival Atreju organized by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

However, the EV maker’s chief has mentioned that the call for climate change is “exaggerated in the short term” because he thinks that the environmental movement may have gone too far, causing people to lose faith in the future.

Musk said that it is important that, in the long run, industries reduce the billions of tons of carbon they are taking from the earth and free in the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels.

According to the information, when fossil fuels are burned, these fuels release large amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas into the air. Greenhouse gases trap heat in our atmosphere and cause global warming.

(source – Reuters)