Even as President Donald Trump boosts coal over clean energy, solar power is hitting new milestones in the U.S. and remains the leading source of new power.
  • arctanthrope@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    12 days ago

    I don’t understand how anyone is still pushing coal. shifting to renewable energy sources has been a national conversation for decades at this point, anyone who was heavily invested in fossil fuels has had plenty of time to diversify into clean energy and come out ahead through the transition. I could understand twenty years ago someone saying “no, we can’t switch to solar, I only own coal mines, I’ll lose so much money!” (I don’t endorse it, I think people who think like that are morally disgusting and the world would be better without them, but I understand why that would motivate their opinion). but if they haven’t seen which way the wind is blowing and invested in wind in all that time, they deserve whatever they get

    • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
      17·
      12 days ago

      I’m pretty sure even the coal people are trying to get out of it. Trump has forced closing coal operations to stay open.

    • dbdr@nord.pubEnglish
      6·
      12 days ago

      I don’t understand how anyone is still pushing coal.

      I think it’s purely stupid tribalism. “Democrats are against coal, so it must be good.”

      • Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        Dead coal towns full of people who are irrationally convinced the good old days are coming back are concentrated in small and swing States.

    • magnue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      12 days ago

      The US economy is driven by fossil fuels. Global reliance on fossil fuels keeps the US strong. The US strategy is currently ‘America first at all costs’.

    • jmill@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      11 days ago

      Fossil fuels have a higher profit margin. They could switch investments and still make money, but at a lower return, which is unacceptable.

      That has been the case anyway, costs for wind and even more so solar have been dropping so fast, the switch is eventually inevitable.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    11 days ago

    There is more money in it for trump if he pushes the illegal fentanyl trade over health care. Not that he’s doing that but, given the choice, he will always go for the money. So there you go.

  • CarterAva@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    1·
    11 hours ago

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