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points by crote 3 days ago | 0 comments

> just win on price and the right wing will happily adopt it

Obvious counterpoints: Trump's $700m "clean, beautiful coal" handouts, or Trump's $2B buyback of wind farm leases.

[–] linuxftw 3 days ago

I'm talking about the voter base, not the crooks in Washington.

[–] triceratops 3 days ago

The voter base keeps voting for the crooks though.

[–] bluGill 3 days ago

Nobody likes everything any politician does. The question is who is least evil.

[–] dpkirchner 3 days ago

The less evil one, in this case, is the one that is not afraid to admit excess CO2 (emitted by human activity) is a problem.

[–] linuxftw 2 days ago

If you can solve the problem in a way that doesn't give government and NGO's more power over private industry, nobody will push back. If the solution is invasive government regulation, the answer will always be no. Also, can't involve the tax payers funding any of it.

[–] triceratops 2 days ago

> If the solution is invasive government regulation, the answer will always be no

The answer is already "no" without regulation. Might as well regulate.

What other options are there? Mind-control?

[–] dpkirchner 2 days ago

Good news, we can! Solar and battery technology will reduce our reliance on oil, which will reduce the need for our expensive overseas misadventures and crimes.

[–] bluGill 2 days ago

There are thousands of different issues though.

[–] TheCoelacanth 2 days ago

And the current US administration is on the wrong side of almost all of them.