• krisevol@lemmus.org
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      22 days ago

      It’s because they make everything and have spare money to spend on research.

      The US runs on debt, and we are running out of debt.

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        22 days ago

        Why spend money on new technology when you can ensure our fossil fuel oligarchs are the richest in the world? Why struggle for a place with new technology when you can dominate previous technology?

        We have a president with a personal vendetta against wind turbines who exhausted the legal ways to block development of wind farms so is spending $1B to have a company walk away from one