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Otherwise unusable wind and solar exist seasonally in some places, and the same goes for geothermal in Iceland where climeworks operated.
This kind of thing makes sense as a research operation, not as a commercial endeavor right now.
The Inflation Reduction Act unleashed a rush of investment in Republican-represented districts. Now, the GOP is proposing to effectively repeal the law.
You will be out of work and won't be able to. Investor groups will buy them at auction instead
No insurer is going to take a large underwriting loss year after year
Every kid who dies of an untreated dental infection is one who couldn't grow up to vote for Democrats
Nah. Its that of any large group, there is a risk somebody is bought off. So having a few more legislators more than the minimum protects you from that.
Or...the actual problem is that every single republican is opposed to doing things that help Americans, so with a 50/50 Senate, it took buying off only one Democrat to force stuff out
The actual path to good policy is more and better Democrats. Enough that the failings of one or three can't sink legislation
Even there, Manchin was a major problem. Almost all the Democrats wanted stuff like an expanded child tax credit, but Manchin announced that if parents had money, they'd all go out and buy meth, so he insisted on its removal from the bill before he would vote for it.
It's more that their constituents are exposed to a constant stream of propaganda which favors fossil fuels and the destruction they cause.
There is no real left-wing messaging machine that compares and can tell people about the harm they're experiencing or the benefits of renewables.
The Republican effort to repeal it is (rightly) going to to be a real disaster, costing us not just a liveable future, but a lot of jobs in the near term.
BBB became the Inflation Reduction Act. Its what Manchin would vote for.
The most conservative Democrat is far more conservative than you or I.
For sure. But I'll appreciate seeing it happen now instead of never
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Yep. The idea has been to provide greenwashing services to major emitters