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Originally Posted by Bjorn_Tasty1
Yes, better for environment, better for the oligarch countries.
I think the 'green' people are marketing clean energy wrong.
Tell it like this and both left and right must support sustainable energy.
Maybe cost a little more, but less wars about oil.
We can sell water in those countries and control that price in the future 
Some people predict drinking water to become the next problem. |
Here is the thing.. The right can stick their head in the ground and deny, deny, deny but the world is moving on with out them.
Coal for one is dead. There will never be another new coal plant built in the US. It's a done deal, it's not EPA or any regulations it's fracking which has put the death nail into coal.
Fracking is simply cheaper.. Coal requires hundreds if not thousands of people to run it's operation for a single mine. With this, comes lots of heath risks ect.. it's just no longer feasible and those jobs are never coming back. A fracking well takes maybe 100 guys at most 3 to 6 months to set up and after that it's producing with only a couple guys in the field to maintain it. It's way cheaper so the market is pushing coal out, not regulations like Trump and all the denibilles claim.
As for actual renewable power. 2016 was also the year that Solar became cheaper than coal. Meaning if Fracking didn't put it out of business solar would. ie the market is pushing fossil fuels like coal out of existence, just like we don't run steam engine trains/boats anymore as it wasn't as efficient or as profitable.. Renewable power will also eventually drive the death nail into oil, as an energy source, but it will take another 50-100 years because tech just isn't here yet.
as far as other renewable, the rest of the world doesn't have one hand tied behind their back like the US does, due to ignorant Republicans. 2016 also marked the year that more "new" renewable power generation was created vs fossil fuel. (meaning off all the added power generation added to the entire world, more renewable was added than fossil fuel, that shows the the future = renewable)
Republicans can cry about it and blame liberals all they want but the world has moved on with out them. It's actually kind of sad that here in the US we have to deal with these ignorant fools but it is what it is and the OP is a classic case of this.