They are shitting themselves because the oil bubble is at the point of bursting. All the easy-to-get oil that exists on the planet has now been discovered and is being exploited at an unsustainable rate and they know it. That's why they are now investing in alternative, renewable fuel sources. They have always known that the situation where they make plastic knick-knacks on the other side of the world and carting it thousands of miles to the point of sale is untenable and indefensible but, as long as their short-term wealth was increased, they didn't care.

Now, they are being forced to care. Not because they have any social conscience, but because they are getting hit in the pocket and now they expect those workers that they shat on and whose lives they ruined years ago to welcome them back and embrace them. I have zero sympathy with them. They brought it all upon their own heads and deserve everything they get.

John