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.
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
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’.
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
I think it’s purely stupid tribalism. “Democrats are against coal, so it must be good.”
I’m pretty sure even the coal people are trying to get out of it. Trump has forced closing coal operations to stay open.
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’.