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The One Climate Policy All 2024 Candidates Support Is Actually Terrible | Ethanol is a comically inefficient form of solar energy—and a toxic one. Solar panels would be better (newrepublic.com)

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[–] blazera@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not all candidates. Just all democrat and republican candidates.

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[–] Bipta@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

So all actual candidates.

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[–] blazera@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Self fulfilling prophecies

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