The oil and gas industry has vitally needed skills, equipment and infrastructure that we simply cannot afford not to leverage as part of the clean energy transition. We still need to grow oil and gas production for at least another full decade in order to continue breathing until sufficient clean energy alternatives can be brought online. What we need to do away with are the politicians who stand in the way of progress by making enemies and scapegoats of the very people who are most qualified to help solve the real problem at hand.