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That's not true. 73% of Republican want more solar farms and 62% want more wind farms: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/06/08/most-americans-support-e
by mminer237 4y ago
That's not true. 73% of Republican want more solar farms and 62% want more wind farms: 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...
This also tracks with my experience. I know tons of conservative people who are leasing their farms out to build windmills or installing their own solar panels.
- tstrimple 4y agoLet's just ignore that the number of Republicans supporting renewables has dropped 15% in the last 5 years and is still trending down.
- mminer237 4y agoBecause of partisan divisions like the parent comment was trying to further. Conservatives have no ideological opposition to renewable energy, some are just starting to oppose it because "the team likes it" and politics is becoming more about tribalism than actual policy. If people stopped trying to paint people on the other side as "the enemy", we wouldn't have these kinds of issues forming.