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This is just blatantly stupid in the crudest sense. You want to showcase yourself as a friend of big industrial interests, oil and whatever else, fine. Want to
by southernplaces7 1y ago
This is just blatantly stupid in the crudest sense. You want to showcase yourself as a friend of big industrial interests, oil and whatever else, fine. Want to spit in the face of "progressive" energy rhetoric? okay, sure, whatever. But why try to ruin a genuinely useful, powerfully developing technology for such crude motivations? Of course, because you're Trump (or a Trump appointee) and need to showcase your reactionary ass to the world of your perceived enemies even when it's completely counterproductive to do so.
- gregbot 1y agoI dont think there is a conspiracy by oil and gas companies to sabotage solar and wind. I think solar and wind are just not as easy and cheap to build a reliable grid because of transmission and storage costs which advocates always underestimate.
- insane_dreamer 1y agoThat’s incorrect
- triceratops 1y ago> I dont think there is a conspiracy by oil and gas companies to sabotage solar and wind. That's exactly what someone participating in the conspiracy would say. At this point it's an open secret that oil and gas have used their money to lobby against all alternative sources of energy, including HN's golden boy: nuclear. Exhibit A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Club#Budget_and_funding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Club#Budget_and_funding Environmentalists didn't kill nuclear energy. They are a patsy for Big Oil.
- gregbot 1y agoThat’s great information thank you. I still think there is plenty of grass roots anti-nuclear sentiment
- triceratops 1y agoSentiment doesn't get anything done. Cash and political influence does. There are literally thousands of causes with "grass roots" support. How many translate into policy?