• grue@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    At this point we don’t even need to spend billions subsidizing green energy; it’s already cheaper than fossil fuels on the free market. We’re now subsidizing bad shit out of sheer hate and suicidal contrarianism for contrarianism’s sake.

    (And blatant corruption and graft. That’s a big reason for the otherwise literally clinically insane fossil fuel subsidies, too.)

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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      8 hours ago

      I’d say corruption and grift is the actual why, “sheer hate and suicidal contrarianism for contrarianism’s sake” is somehow how it’s successfully sold to the masses.