Here in Australia I have been very pleasantly surprised by our renewable energy build out being far ahead of my jaded expectations.

We’re plopping down enormous grid scale batteries like it’s Sim City.

Electricity in the middle of the day is free!

Oil subsidies total $4.5 trillion in that same period, and the ratio used to be worse, so it doesn’t take a genius to see why people accuse the energy policy of being biased toward a dangerous status quo.

Think it's still a mixed bag. There's not broad consensus (in the US at least) that continued investment in renewables is the future. We're still investing heavily in fossil fuels, we've had two military campaigns in the last three years to influence global oil supply and the sitting US President signed an emergency order to bypass restrictions on fossil fuel projects on literally his first day in office. There's plenty of people and policy makers who are fine with the fossil fuel status quo.

I didn't say renewable energy—I said "sustainable infrastructure", and I was principally thinking of public transit, but there are countless more dimensions above and beyond energy generation.

Even still, fossil fuel revenues dwarf renewables by ×3-6.