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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/22154146

The "problem" is that wind, solar, and batteries for overnight storage can now outcompete fossil fuel generation on price, which means that the patrons who back the Republican party stand to lose a lot of money.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Free market republicans are a lie.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's like everything with them: they talk about principles but what they really mean is everything must be bent to their advantage. When following their claimed principles would help someone else, they abandon the principles or move the goalposts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

This precisely this!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

All Republicans do is lie and cheat

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Well, they steal, too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Closed market Russiacans.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

That wasn't very free market of you homie.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When Republicans say, "don't threaten me with a good time," they aren't just joking.

It's so dumb, too. It saves money, but the party of fiscal responsibility doesn't want that. It is the open market self-regulating, but the party of open market and limited regulations wants to regulate it out of business.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Republicans are traitors to their beliefs and they are traitors to America.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I derive endless comedy from democratic states wanting to change but being unable to because of environmental regulations and Republican states not wanting to change but being unable to because of free market capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Republican lawmakers in the Texas Legislature are pushing to rein in renewable energy

as always, they left out the with oil barons' cocks in their mouths after "republican lawmakers"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Shame no one could have seen this coming and use their billions from polluting the planet to diversify

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Sounds a bit like actual work. Rich people don't like to do actual work.