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Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid (fortune.com)

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm a Fiscally Responsible American Republican and this is EXACTLY why we SHOULDN'T transition away from Oil! Imagine all the RESEARCH into YACHTS and MANSIONS the CEOS can't do now that prices are NEGATIVE!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Prices go negative in Texas somewhat regularly

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In Texas so does the grid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How could stupidity go so wrong?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I live here, and the best way I can describe it, is as "enthusiastically, and ignorantly, stubborn"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

All the while waving a gadsen flag.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It's part of their heritage! Like 4 years of it! Certainly nothing before the Confederacy had anything to do with it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Doesn’t mean much when it collapses due to weather.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Or starts brush fires because their infrastructure's horribly neglected.