Elon Musk has softened his usual hatred of fossil fuels, saying he feels bad for hating on oil and gas
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he felt "a bit bad for hating on the oil and gas industry" during an interview with The New York Times published Monday.
Musk implied that most people working in fossil fuels had joined the industry before realizing the scale of the climate crisis. His remarks were surprising, given Musk has accused critics of taking funding from Big Oil and has vowed to kill the industry.Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said he feels bad for "hating" on the oil and gas industry, implying that most older workers in the field didn't realize the extent of the climate crisis when they started out., Musk said: "Honestly, I feel a bit bad about hating on the oil and gas industry.
"For a lot of the people in the oil and gas industry, especially if they're on the older side, they built their companies and did their work before it was clear that this was a serious issue," he added. "And now they feel probably hard done by, that people are making them out to be villains, when they're for the longest time just working hard to support the economy, and didn't really know that it would be all that bad.
Musk's statements strike a more conciliatory tone than usual, given the entrepreneur has previously stated it's his mission to destroy the fossil fuel industry, and has accused
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