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Why would the right get behind this idea? They don’t want the government investing in anything. They just want private companies to assume the entire burden, and offload the expense directly onto the consumer.
No, that’s what they say they want. In practice, they give government resources away or turn a blind eye to rising rates for whatever company gives them campaign contributions.
What burden? It’s not burden, it’s sales. A switch to renewables means your loss on investments in producing and delivering gas and benzene. So you protect yourself by lobbying laws that won’t allow anyone to “get the energy out of the thin air”
Wait. Are you suggesting they would use actual liquid cash as their start-up investment?
The problem is the right care more about hurting their perceived enemies than they do actually improving their own lives.
The right wants to keep and strengthen hierarchy. The problem with renewables is that they are much harder to control. Solar can be installed on the roofs, balconies and the like, which can be done by a lot of people. So hard to control. Even wind turbines can be easily built by a village or other larger group, like a rich farmer. Compared that to a gas power plant, which takes millions in investment or even more so a nuclear power plant, where we are talking billions. That is also true for things like EVs, which can be charged at home using solar.
There is a lifestyle where you own your own home, have some solar on the roof, charge an EV with it and have a garden producing some food. That is like 2/3 of a normal persons budget. So if you can work a bit to make ends means, that can create a lot of freedom. Especially if it is self employed job and considering that your basic needs are mostly covered that risk is acceptable. That sort of population would be a nightmare to control in a hierarchy.
Eh. That’s how nearly everyone lived up until about 1850 or so.
It still is in large parts of Africa and that happens to be the region which is the hardest to control.
Fair point, but during all that time information was centralized. You couldn’t talk to people from the next city-state over, you couldn’t read the holy text, you would never see the consequences of slavery, you wouldn’t hear another country’s public radio use car ownership as the premise of a joke, you couldn’t see the victims of genocide livestream their slaughter.
With the free internet, every day is an experience that we have more in common with people across the world than with capital owners.
Why would they be resorting to something as self-destructive as fascism if they weren’t desperate? Do you think billionaires like kissing Trump’s ring and losing billions on protectionism? They just prefer it over equality.
But does anyone ever consider the oil company CEO’s bonuses?
No they wouldn’t. Prices only go up they never go down. The utility would tack on a charge to help pay for whatever green solution they’ve used. Then the price will remain stable. It might remain stable longer than usual but it absolutely will not go down
They would not be able to get behind that.
You need to hurt someone and be gleeful about it to get them on side.
