If they are getting cheaper, it is because of the recession. And it isn't nonsensical to mitigate climate change by reducing and eventually ending its use?
Global warming is happening
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010...
And we are causing it
http://c1planetsavecom.wpengine.netdna-c...
The ten warmest years in the instrumental record are 2010, 2005, 2009, 2007, 2002, 1998, 2006, 2003, 2011 and 2012.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
From the link : " ... In the short term, low prices are likely to signal that less of the commodity can be sold on the world market. Commodities such as oil and food are very desirable products. Why would less be needed? The issue, unfortunately, is affordability. Affordability depends largely on (1) wages and (2) debt. Wages tend to be fairly stable. The likely culprit, if affordability is leading to lower demand for desirable products like oil and food, is less growth in debt. ... "
You say fossil fuels are getting cheaper and energy prices are "necessarily skyrocketing" and fossil fuels are overpriced.
Nice logic, there.
They think taxing will stop Nature making mean storms.
Nature wont notice
Its a wealth redistribution scheme
mitigating climate change is impossible, the earth follows it's own rules, not al gore's rules.
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-09-22/low-oil-prices-sign-of-a-debt-bubble-collapse-leading-to-the-end-of-oil-supply
It seems that "debt" is more of a controlling factor when it comes to falling oil prices.
