Comment by ubertaco
15 hours ago
So what I'm hearing is that when it comes to cheap, clean, consumer-empowering energy, the USA tends to regulate, not innovate.
15 hours ago
So what I'm hearing is that when it comes to cheap, clean, consumer-empowering energy, the USA tends to regulate, not innovate.
A lot of people in the U.S. are trying to innovate. I think the problem is the fossil fuel industry has been paying government, probably for decades, to implement legal roadblocks at all levels, from individual homes up to states and regions, to non-fossil fuel energy. I think they've also had a hand, at least at the propaganda level, in pushing back on electric vehicles.
Personally, I'd love to see the United States, and the rest of the world, decrease its reliance on oil. We won't get off it in any of our lifetimes, but we should move in that direction. I like diversifying. Any bit helps. Solar in Australia and Arizona. Maybe less so in northern Maine. Wind turbines where there's wind. I personally don't have any aesthetic objection to them. I think they look kind of cool. And certainly better than smokestacks. And so on.