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In this case, we've also got the oil industry paying big bucks to showcase a tool that's a tiny and expensive part of what we should be doing, and suggest to people that we can just do that one thing, rather than do the work needed to get off fossil fuels entirely. That's putting a huge promotional budget behind it, which buys off major media outlets.