We, the USA, have had energy dependence for decades now. Renewable especially with how the tech has advanced would have been one of the worst things in the worl

We, the USA, have had energy dependence for decades now. Renewable especially with how the tech has advanced would have been one of the worst things in the world to do this with. You'd have dumped tons into factories and manufacturing that was obsolete before it even finished being build. For fields with this kind of rapid iteration jumping in hard but later is the better move.