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i mean, we literally have to keep paying people to not build renewables, apnews.com/article/trum...

War machine is driving energy tech 🤦🏻‍♀️

Yes in not-crazy #physics and #neuroscience: 1+1 body sides now = 2 body sides. 🚦=1+1+1

Maybe but I'll burn my money before I give it to Elmo Mush

The wild part is down here with us poors, this shit seems pretty obvious. We got a cheap, used EV and that does most of our driving. Our gas car is pretty much just for long trips now. If orange menace hadn't cranked up the price of solar with his tariffs we'd be driving for free.

And despite what looks like a growing anti-ebike propaganda campaign, they are wildly popular and sales are huge.

I care deeply about climate change, but it’s good tactics for this election cycle to spend a great deal of time blaming Trump and his cronies for rising bills. If people wanna know how we’d lower their bills, call for renewables, and tons of new housing near jobs and transit.

Climate goes through these cycles, you get a couple years where it's in vogue, then all the tourists get bored and there's BACKLASH omg and then everyone kinda forgets...but it always comes back around eventually because it just keeps getting worse and worse.

Just forget twitter. Don’t even peek. Make Musk irrelevant. If he’s going to make cars that look like that ugly truck, fuck him. Drive a Volvo.

AND endless war

In all the better timelines, instead of a mad king spending our money to cancel renewable projects, there's funding to implement innovative beneficial adaptations... like solar-collecting carparks and grants for converting homes to geothermal/ solar. I hate it here in the dumbest timeline.

If the stock market can be irrational, why not the climate? We are dumb creatures.

Renewables were cheaper than fossil fuel electricity on energy markets in the middle east 10+ years ago. Literally where the fossil fuels come from could not compete. 20 Nov 2014, Dubai Electricity opened the bids for a 100MW project. Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power bid $59.80/MWh which was entirely Solar

well, the electricity markets of texas and california are indeed shifting.

starting an anti-oil, anti-car dealership movement based on removing the middlemen starting a pro-solar movement based on solar being the ultimate for the rugged individualist

They'd rather we keep buying gas guzzlers and pay a fortune to run them

And EVs are more reliable.

We can have a Manhattan Project to destroy cities, an Apollo Project to scare the Reds, and a Billionaire Pollution Project to build infinite plagiarism, but the nation just cannot survive public investment in an Ado Project to backstop intermittent with sodium batteries and perfect desalinization.

the situation has never been more dire or more solveable. at this point it’s going to require more sacrifice to keep burning fossil fuels than to stop.

Andrew Cuomo gave Musk a billion dollars of tax subsidies for a plant in Buffalo that never made a single EV or solar panel

we're told we need to whack renewables and subsidize fossil fuels for aFfOrDaBiLiTy and everyone just nods along like it makes sense

If the Iran war isn’t resolved by the end of Trump’s term, the Democratic administration should just engage in protracted negotiations without opening the Strait of Hormuz, creating worldwide incentives to find alternatives to gulf oil. Then promote EV infrastructure.

But, Trump promised the oil and gas companies whatever they wanted if they gave him $1 billion for his campaign. He’s just paying off his debts. www.politico.com/news/2024/05...

There’s a lot of stupidity rolling around the US lately. Too much 47. Turns the brain to mush.

It’s the same people who complain about Progressives, and join the Ds who worry about Socialism spoiling their great success at losing. That’s just brilliant that the economics of EVs has now become competitive with noisy smelly polluting gas guzzlers, that put us at the mercy of Gas Pump and Iran.

I don't charge my phone in the wall anymore. Or any of my small devices either. Just power banks and a portable solar panel is enough now.

Also e-bikes are so good if we made the streets safe even the suburbs would be navigable but people are obsessed with pumping gas and hating traffic