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There's a big divide between politics rhetoric from political parties, and what's actually going on economically on the ground. Not only is Texas installing ma
by epistasis 4y ago
There's a big divide between politics rhetoric from political parties, and what's actually going on economically on the ground.
Not only is Texas installing massive amounts of solar, wind, and battery storage, it's also mostly going into rural areas that are more politically conservative.
- tstrimple 4y agoI wonder if they get the same conservative "No Industrial Solar" propaganda that pervades rural Iowa. A little bit of searching seems to indicate rural opposition to renewables to be fairly common. https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2022/01/27/backlash-against-renewables-surged-in-2021-with-31-big-wind-and-13-big-solar-projects-vetoed-across-us/?sh=407d7af3bb79 https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2022/01/27/backlash... Republican approval of renewable energy is also dropping year over year and is down 15% from 5 years ago. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/06/08/most-americans-support-expanding-solar-and-wind-energy-but-republican-support-has-dropped/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/06/08/most-americ... It seems there is a pretty clear divide in partisan and urban / rural support.
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoMost rural people have no problem with industrial development unless it's highly polluting (and by "highly" I mean "orders of magnitude above and beyond what it takes to make people here hand wring"). Declining support for renewable energy seems to be a result of team politics.