You are right and the reporter should not have been the target of my anger. The analyst's statement is for me a symptom of what's wrong in our consumer society, but I cannot blame him personally for doing what he's paid to do: identifying investment opportunities and exploring future economic consequences of today's events.

Here's where my rage came from: (i) we cannot go on like this. We as a western society started with baby steps towards a future with a smaller ecological footprint. This was obviously also triggered by the last oil shock. (ii) we know that we cannot go on like this, yet many of our decisions are made considering only a single proxy of societal well-being, money.

The analyst states correctly "that's where money can be made, BMW will profit!". Yet for global society, it's a disastrous direction.

Facts you don't agree with are to be swept under the rug, so any facts you acknowledge have your implicit endorsement ;)