Oil and gas players should put their money behind transition strategies rather than asking for carte blanche to drill more

OPINION: Tesla chief executive Elon Musk’s comments to the ONS event in Norway about the world needing “more oil and gas, not less” must have felt like a much-needed respite for many in the oil and gas industry.

As Europe faces the prospect of a stark winter amid a full-blown energy crisis, the Tesla celebrity’s words sounded like vindication, in line with what some industry hawks had been saying all along.

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