Poverty is the root of all evil

[The Comrade]

it's like you can export coal and use solar for your own energy needs

[exploited]

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[exploited]

Oh so now it is about teaching the Saudis a lesson, and nothing at all to do with energy independence. Not surprising.

Also you have completely ignored non-economic reasons for renewable energy.

As for what technologies are cheaper, I suggest reading a newspaper regularly. Literally any of them.

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[exploited]

Of course they are cheapening the price. If you are losing market share to a competitor who provides an identical product, you lower prices. The point being that investing in oil and gas production can't and never will lead to energy independence, which is obvious to anyone who understands basic economics.

You want to become the leading oil producer, great... Why? Because you want to destroy your own land for short term gain, while pretending that the massive externalities don't exist?

For maybe the tenth time, it isn't about totally replacing oil and gas instantaneously. It is about making reasonable policy changes that will transition us away from oil and gas without harming the economy.

Germany, the most powerful economy in Europe, gets 20-30% of it's power from renewables, using a mix of wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, etc. By 2040, it will be 50-65%. They have doubled the amount of jobs in that sector since 2004 and the renewable companies are making a profit... All by "doing the impossible," which is defined as "what Western conservatives incorrectly hold to be impossible."

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_R ... Energy_Act

[lnrw]

[The Comrade]

it's not that. it's that they're classist f**k that don't want to "encourage" the homeless to "flock" to certain areas.

it's a soft method of criminalizing homelessness.

[lnrw]

60 days in jail for publicly feeding hungry people, is soft? While the feds confiscate funds to feed over 40 million people? There's nothing soft about it, and there is every effort being made to halt and punish anyone bold enough to take matters into their own hands. This is peaceful assembly and is protected under the 1st amendment.

Of course, what you said is also a big part of it.

But soft, it isn't.

[The Comrade]