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Just ask Musk? He knows.

From what I've read over years, this has been going on for many decades.

but in the longer run it doesn't benefit them - they all have grandchildren...

SOP

We had the birth of electric cars back in the 1970s. Of course Big Oil crushed it. Psychotic greed has been k1ll1ng the globe and sensible solutions for my entire life, and I'm a senior citizen.

Let’s freaking hope not. Wow is there anything more evil than fossil fuel giants, money and power over everything!

Nuremberg! Nuremberg! Nuremberg!

You know what drives me nuts about the environment argument? It is blaming individual citizens; I do everything I possibly can to protect my world. It is MY fault while they continue to pollute with impunity; water, air, manufacturing, every possible resource ... it is pure glut.

Gm and standard oil colluded to kill public transport in the 40’s this is nothing new 🤬

The future will come whether you're ready for it or not Time is linear Noone is going back Trump thinks the world will follow him...such #dementia The past might be prolog but it's not the story And you can't live there

Same sort of action (by the petroleum/auto industries) killed electrified trollies during the early 20th century....

Catch and kill.

China is pleased.

Ha ha. United States of America. The future isn't yours.

Not just China. Places in Europe are all over it too. Just not...America.

I wonder if this is true for the world outside of the US. Plenty of innovation here.

And then people wonder why China is producing the best solar panels & EVs

I hate this planet.

Corruption accelerates the decline of empires, perfect example here of big fossil fuels helping China take over the future of green tech and putting America last

When there is a will there is a way. EV is the mark of the future, oil companies sabotage the auto industry when they created the combustion engine, as they originally had electric before gas. Back almost 200 years ago!

Didn’t that happen in the 90’s?

Same, all my life. Turns out, it wasn't just conspiracy theories.

Whooda thunk it🤦‍♂️

I’m sure they tried. Word is out now. Real question is whether there should be negative consequences for their corporate shenanigans.

starbucks and microsoft and amazon have done similar things yet no one called them out for it. But its too late for cover ups, we all know the planet is warming, 8 billion people on this planet constantly burning something

Wow. It’s like soda companies buying out/crushing all possible competition. 🤬

SOBs 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Y...yeah. Wait, y'all only JUST figured that out?

Nothing secret about @albomp.bsky.social and the fossil fuel companies close relationship. #auspol. www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/al...

No shit

Thank God for China and their green energy companies?

It's not the first time. A real shame that we've let them get away with it time and time again.

Big oil fails to see the billions in profits from the ev and renewables.

Bye bye America 👋🏼

Patents schmatens. You take it by eminent domain. Big oil can get fucking bent,

Read the book “Fire Weather” by John Vaillant.

I have no doubt about it.

“First, do harm to make money. Do as much harm as needed to maximize profits now. Harm as many as possible. In as many ways as possible. Use your money to harm all living things now & assure that the harm continues to FUTURE GENERATIIONS long after you are dead.” The GOP Hypocritic Oath.

‼️👎 A serious accusation...

…can’t be that important, if it’s hidden behind this stupid “create a free account…” nagging.

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Worst kept secret ever.

Take some small comfort in the fact that their Florida houses will flood first.

They might have destroyed the future of the human race.

I guess the reasoning is why allow the consumer to pay once when you can bleed them dry for their life.

Not sure how/why people think Electric vehicles = clean energy. The facts are the carbon footprint print to make them is way higher, they also charge from coal burned electrical power, not solar panels on the vehicles. They dnt hold a charge worth a shit and have been a scam since day one.

This tactic has been used forever.

Um. They've been doing this for more than a decade. They buy green energy start-ups that are developing a promising new technology, take that technology for themselves, fire the employees, then bury the technology until it's financially beneficial to them. Unregulated capitalism is BAD

Calculate the anticipated projected cleanup costs for all the toxic superfund sites congress allows them to ignore, till all the people responsible are dead and gone.

All new “Energy Patents” are pre-screened by USPTO and Department of Energy operatives to outright blockade any major innovation that would put fossil fuel industries out of business.

This is disgusting!

Fuck Tesla

Our political parties are in on it.

Consumers have the power to stop them getting rich with buying decisions, don't buy things

Never said that money ≠ power, just that it's a means to an end for them. It's not absolute wealth that begets power, it's relative and as long as they're relatively far more wealthy, they stay in power.

...and how's he working out?

Sleezbags

This is equally as worse than what the Cigarette & Pharma companies had been doing for decades, poisoning humanity whilst at the same time preventing cure for cancer. There needs to be a reckoning for this deceit & deception upon humanity.

This story tracks. My uncle saw some evening news report about a car that could get 100 miles per gallon. He said that was in the 1970s and that he looked all over but could never find the name of the inventor or a company that made a similar car. I suspect Big Oil bought the patent and killed it.

The very act of their acquiring wealth has harmed others. For centuries! They have shown little concern and history shows us they resort to fascism if threatened.

It is government enforcement of artificial monopolies on intellectual property which give these entities that benefit. End intellectual property monopolization. There are better ways to ensure those who innovate receive reasonable compensation for their efforts.

That's no surprise at all. There have been many inventions that have hidden over the years, such as infrared cells, to create electricity.

Who do we think emptied out Tesla’s papers? Oh and it involved Trumps

Sounds about right! 🤬 Corruption everywhere!

This is not news. This has been well known since the’80s. Add to the list the Detroit 3 auto companies. At one time GM was the largest holder of patents for batteries in vehicles. I wrote a patent paper on this in grad school in 2002, and I am not a genius.

Wouldn't be the first time they did some bullshit like this! youtu.be/uep5zOrsAEA?...

Catch and kill, petro style.

no shit.

These people are horrific

Wait until they hear about GM, Ford and Toyota 😝 - GM and Ford were aware of climate change concerns from internal research, largely suppressed this information, lobby groups and conservative think tanks that promulgated scientific misinformation. Ford donated more than $1.1 million to the AEI.

On developing Net Zero)Hydrogen infrastructure. Right before they announced they were rolling back investment in non fossil fuels.

Many years ago I met a man who was a specialist in advanced steam engines. He'd developed clutchless engines that ran on ethanol and which outperformed petrol engines. GM bought him out and slapped an injunction on him.

I remember that with those "super carburetors" in the 70s. Buy and kill. Greedy fukkers.

No shit 💩 they have been doing that for over 100 years

Relay from BLUESKY....

Same story through/o history w/ big oil. It continues bec every friggin cronie they have in Congress gets $ to trade our future AWAY by oil to renewable energy on both sides of the isle. Vote them out. No subsidies, tax breaks, rebates, refunds to the multi trillion $ industry. 52 trillion in 40 yrs

They should be charged with willful murder of the planet.

The United States may very well nuke the world to stop being left behind

France is heading that way too

scandinavia has a high degree of there electricity from renewables as well,

As they should...

I remember realizing this when I was in Amsterdam and the U.K. in 2000 and they had wide screen format digital televisions while we still used analog for broadcast in the U.S.

the big problem with solar is the US has no control over it , they cannot force you to trade for saudi oil in dollars .

The US is a bad joke

I also live in Portugal and EVs are not plentiful. The country has some of the oldest, most polluting cars in the EU. I must confess to being one of those people too, but EVs are out of my budget.

If you abandon them (not renew or stop prosecution) then they are free to use unless using them infringes other IPR. 99% of patents make zero money anyway.

They did the same thing in the 1950s, when Arco, Firestone, and GM bought up the old Los Angeles public transit system just so that they could destroy it — forcing people to buy cars, tires, and gasoline😐

The Hydrogen economy is one of the false solutions still being promoted despite the success of EVs and failure of so many hydrogen projects worldwide, because hydrogen keeps them in business.

They've been doing this for a long time.

Trump killed the Federal Solar Tax Credit 4 year before it was to expire How can a president override Congress????????????? This Arsehole does

Bloody disgrace.

They’ve done this before.

Only until the next Dem administration. We need a Dem president with balls ( or ovaries) that will play hardball with the right. Shit like this cannot be allowed to continue. Declare the patients in the national interest and make them public domain.

Follow the money. who's controlling the corrupt GOP. Which US/NATO adversaries (dictators) are investing in US technology, SuperPACs to sustain oil dependent countries & their dictators' power? Saudi Prince? Putin? Invested in Musk/Thiel technologies, including propaganda media purchase ($40B).

In the states perhaps but not elsewhere. Alternative energy sources have doubled in the past two years in multiple countries even in the Middle East.

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Well, it is the capitalist system right? And democratic. They have the freedom to choose to screw us over. Isn’t freedom sacrosanct? Including screwing us ya? That’s the most important thing to protect, no? Otherwise we’ll be labeled as communist, ya?

putting a tesla in the thumbnail for a humanistic topic is certainly a... choice...

Of course they did. Have we learned nothing from Big Tobacco?

Big oil bought a president that stole oil…was it big oils oil lol

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

I believe that, didn't big tobacco do something like that?

Figures money hoarders need to starve

I think we need a good faith patent revolution

Not a new strategy. When will innovators stop grabbing the get-rich-quick bucks from vultures that kill their creation?

Didn't we already see some of this playbook in "Who Killed the Electric Car?" about GM's EV1?

That's why our cities all lost their streetcar lines

Who killed the electric car. A decades old documentary youtu.be/vRnUY6V2Knk?...

Good news is Porsche has found a way to make carbon neutral synthetic gasoline but this oil cartel will quash that too probably

This is why, in late-stage Capitalism, a society cannot progress. We stagnate so the capitalists can make money, then they abandon us and society collapses, because stagnation leads to death.

Recent example: Volta built L2 EV chargers at shopping malls with big screens. The chargers were free, supported by ad sales for the screens. Shell bought out Volta, removed many chargers, and the charges are no longer free.

Goodyear and Firestone bought and killed the LA trolley system dooming CA to traffic nightmare for ever

Sounds like it’s time for Ecotopia Emerging. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotopi...

Shall I tell you how none of this surprises me even one little bit?