pay subsidies directly to the end consumer, call it "green energy rebate" or something on the bill so dumb people will like it. solving climate change is literally cheaper than not doing it so we have some slack to pay off dumb people
this post was submitted on 01 May 2024
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This was an interesting side effect to discover about climate change. As the need for change increases, conservatives gain more power.
Big fossil fuel spending a lot to defend their profits. Good news is that once they are broken, they loose influence.
In the mid 2000's gasoline prices rose to over $4 a gallon and the interest in alternative fuels spiked and so did commercials for energy companies on cable news channels. I don't know where there's a ConocoPhilips but I saw their commercial a thousand times where grandpa takes his grandson fly fishing and they release the trout they caught. Same with the Areva commercial with the catchy pop song and cute animated windmill graphics https://youtu.be/k3_hLTKiIZE?si=Rl7Q1nFfKTgZABvy
Similarly during the energy crisis, there was suddenly a surge of interest in alternatives to fossils.