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Doomberg: Energy is Life and We Are Killing It

From the New World

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Is There a Green Electric Vehicle Transition?

I don't think they've been very effective at changing the public opinion on these things at all. I would say that feeling guilty about your standard of living is a luxury of the rich. There's an easy path to ending our reliance on fossil fuels that is only being held up by greedy oil companies looking to line their pockets of profits. In reality, the physics would say it's impossible. John Kerry is out today talking about some outlandish objective to increase the number of electric vehicles in the US by a factor of 20. It's literal bullshit. Who the hell is John Kerry and why does his opinion count?

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