More than 1,148,000 Americans were employed in the fuels industry in 2019, according to a joint report produced by the National Association of State Energy Officials and the Energy Futures Initiative. Fossil fuels consisted of 80% of the U.S.'s domestic energy production and consumption that same year, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Despite the major impact of carbon-based energy on the lives of every-day Americans and the U.S. economy, Omarova claimed during a March 2021 lecture that she wants "the coal and oil and gas industry... to go bankrupt if we want to tackle climate change."
In a May 2021 conference, Omarova doubled down, saying that the U.S. could "get rid of those carbon financiers [by] starv[ing] them of their sources of capital."
Comment: Golly, it's kind of like these unhinged crazies are making a concerted effort to cause complete social and economic collapse leading to all out chaos, death, and destruction.