Blog Post by Guest blogger for Varun Sivaram. November 2, 2017 The Texas Alliance of Energy Producers will not stand idle while political partisans condemn our Texas jobs, our hard work, and our contributions to the world and this great nation. Fossil fuels have benefited humans since their discovery. Fossil fuels not only drive industry, but are the main components for plastics, fertilizers, medications, and over 6,000 products that people use daily. To deprive our world of this energy resource would be a humanitarian and even genocidal crime of unprecedented proportions. AUSTIN – The benefits of fossil fuels and the bountiful opportunities they have given to mankind should be celebrated, not disparaged. Rebuttal: Oil Subsidies—More Material for Climate Change Than You Might Think. I first heard about Alex Epstein’s book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels via an unsurprisingly fawning review over at the SkeptEco blog.Its premise is so ludicrous that normally I wouldn’t read it, never mind review it. Only fossil fuels can improve the lives of today’s children, while building strong foundations for the children of tomorrow. A Rebuttal: Fossil Fuels Fuel The World. There is no “moral case for fossil fuels”, just as there was no “moral case for slavery” in 1860.