How Bad Is the Permitting Status Quo?

The current situation seems to favor fossil fuels. We have many laws on the books that actually mandate fossil fuel's development. And so every system we have is built logistically, in a regulatory sense, to foster fossil fuels. If you are a relatively new clean energy player, you are up against a regulatory scheme that wasn't built for you. You're up against a culture that doesn't trust whether you can deliver. It's bad if you care about climate and our future. There's a men now that america can't build things. That's just not true when it comes to fossil fuels. Over the last decade,  we've built over a hundred thousand miles of oil pipe