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As the U.S. starves it of oil, Cuba is pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet — with China’s help (www.ctvnews.ca)
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[–] 31 points 4 months ago (6 children)

It's infuriating how successful the oil companies have been at turning solar vs oil into a fucking culture war.

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  • [+] -7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I know! Oil is just a fiction and we can totally grow crops and fertilize them and make pesticides and plastics and chemicals with sunshine and rainbows which is why the population reached 8 billion by 2000 BC!

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Oil is made of sunshine and rainbows dummy, where do you think the energy comes from?

    Ancient plants metabolized sunshine to produce fats and sugars, which were then consumed by animals. It all got cooked into a soup from millions of years of heat and pressure. Oil is basically a solar battery.

    What's wrong with gathering new solar energy?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    This is kind-of a non-sequitur to begin with, but we should not be burning oil to make energy— it's stupid. We should stop doing that as fast as is possible, and the culture war element mentioned by the person you're replying to is a obstacle that needs to be dealt with. As you're keen to point out, it's useful for manufacturing many vitally important things, so no longer setting it on fire is the only sane move. (Among many other reasons.)

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