IMO you're much too charitable. I think these are the reasons (at least for American conservatives), roughly in order of what I consider to be the most to least sympathetic:

• A fondness and nostalgia for fossil power. To be clear I think if this is the reason you're supporting fossil fuel use when lives are on the line you're crazy, especially when museums and motorsport categories for older engine technologies can (and already do) exist, but I can at least understand it.
• Anxiety about change. While there are lots of reasons to think that renewables will put us in a better position than fossil fuels (they're cheaper, can be less centralized, and better insulated against geopolitical instability) a lot of people are very anxious about things like EV range and grid instability. If they're a "low information voter" or have been fed a steady diet of oil industry propaganda then they probably have a very exaggerated view of these issues and a very poor understanding of how the world works.
• The entire idea of anthropogenic climate change and things like a circular economy directly contradicts the Christian worldview they're operating under. For one they don't believe in climate change for the same reason they don't believe in herd immunity from vaccines or systemic racism. Cumulative effects, dynamic systems, and tipping points aren't part of how they think the world works. Secondly, they view the world as something their god gave to humanity to conquer, dominate, and exploit. Telling them that they can't suck the world dry and throw away the husk come judgment day is tantamount to telling them their religion is fake.
• For a portion of the population the above three attitudes have metastasized into conspiracy theories and fascist ideologies. Things like a belief that "15 minute cities" means they will be put into open air prisons, or that wanting to reduce resource consumption means that they will be subjected to population control so that black people can replace white people. I don't feel like writing a giant comment examining the core of the reactionary mind, but suffice it to say that things like language and truth are very fluid for them. If something makes them feel bad then it must be bad, literally and physically. The conspiracy theories are created to justify the feelings.
• In addition to the above plenty of people want to hurt others. The fact that large powerful vehicles kill people, the fact that they're loud, inconvenient for others, and spew black smoke, makes them more appealing. The fact that oil use creates wars that kill children is a bonus. All of this is tough and manly. It makes them feel good.

I didn't know Priuses had jake brakes.

For square meters of physical space.

True, but out of all the ecosystem the one which gets the highest insolation per square meter requires the lowest amount of square meters of disruption for a given amount of power.

Additional options include:

• Partially cover agricultural fields that get too much sun (yes, it is possible for a plant to get too much sun, depending on the species)
• Cover water reservoirs with floating panels, which both cools the panel (improving its efficiency and lifespan) and lowers evaporative water losses.
• Cover patches of desert, which get a ton of sun.
• Cover rooftops.

The wonderbread fetish guy combines both of these into one.

It’s the wrong frequency to cook anything.

The idea that microwave ovens use some specific frequency that's good for cooking is a myth.

Dielectric heating occurs over a very broad range of frequencies. What actually matters is the energy density of the EM field. A microwave oven cooks food because its putting more than 1000 watts into a small confined space, your cellphone doesn't because its transmitter is shooting less than 1 watt into the open air (where the energy density quickly diminishes by the square cube law).

If Open Office were as good a suite of office software as Microsoft, it’d be the industry standard. No business wants to pay Microsoft license fees just because, they do it because the tools work better and create a better end product.

The idea that everything that businesses do is as efficient as physically possible and the executives are all mega geniuses that are incapable of making bad decisions (or are even incentivized to make good decisions) is untrue.

COBAL is not the greatest programming language to ever be invented. It, and the various pieces of dogshit software that companies collectively shell out billions for every year, are used because they are entrenched in their respective industries and corporate structures, not because of their brilliant design.

They all started killing each other because plasmid use makes you psychotic, unless you can afford to keep taking more and more.

They all started taking plasmids because they needed to compete in the workplace (then later, in the war) or end up homeless / dead.

Plasmids were legal in the first place because Randism, being based 100% on individual responsibility, doesn't believe that things like feedback loops or cumulative effects can happen at a societal level, and so doesn't believe in regulations.

Plasmids are a pretty clear metaphor for dehumanizing yourself to serve the market, especially because the Randian superman is a psychopath that is only self interested.

But even without plasmids the fact that the worlds elite were brought down to Rapture, yet (to quote an audio log) "we couldn't all be captains of industry, someone had to scrub the toilets" bred a huge amount of resentment from people who felt scammed and now trapped down there. Just like in the real world the markets in BioShock rely completely on low level workers to be able to function, and yet punish them for being in that position.

There are actually some fossils of dinosaur mummies, a rare preservation of a rare preservation. For some species these give us direct evidence of their physical appearance beyond their bone structure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_mummy

It needs a port that you can attach your bag of caffeinated noodles to.