Yo, what the fuck?
We bear no responsibility for your current crop of shitheels. You collectively put them in power, they're your problem. We have enough self-fellating fuckwits of our own to be going on with, thanks very much.
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Rightly so. If the scientific method is applied to religious claims, they fail as untestable assertions. Every time.
In the case of SUVs, it's not primarily the oil lobby, it's car manufacturers. Put simply, they get to charge way more than the extra materials costs, for a "premium" vehicle. They're making bank out of this shit.
If that were true, we wouldn't be where we are today.
Like a red and white "Santa Claus"? Giving diamonds upon engagement for marriage? Chocolate eggs at Easter?
Mate, it's universal.
Maybe if Obama had spent as much time on the links as Trump, you all wouldn't be in this mess.
LMAO
Remember when all the coal rolling micropenises were whacking "I did that!" stickers stickers on everything?
Wonder what they're all blaming now their man, Mango Mussolini and his team of cum-guzzling sycophants and fascist handlers are fully in charge?
Is it still somehow Biden's fault? What's their play here?
In what language, Russian? Because that's not how it's done in English.
I'm from the UK, but that's irrelevant as I didn't say democracy here was older than your country, did I?
My point stands.
Pumped Hydro or simple hot sand (I shit you not) are good ways of storing excess energy without resorting to direct electrical storage solutions (which are improving year on year at a swift pace too).
There are a lot of other ways being explored too. To name but a couple; pumped geothermal storage using everything from old mines to aquifers (a few degrees C in a lot of water is a lot of energy and deep mines will add it for free), and underwater pressure energy storage (I like this one for it's simplicity and sustainability).
But you're totally correct. The oil industry has almost infinite money and power, and thus an almost unassailable influence on politics and policy.
The hope lies in the almost. With a bit of luck, things will get bad enough that the populous at large start to question whether being so dependent on other countries for the ability to move shit around is such a cracking idea when the alternative is right there, today, not in a decade when any local oil begins to flow, if there is any to be had.
A smart politician would spin a wholehearted policy shift to renewables as "ensuring the sovereignty of our nation's energy supply, the backbone of our economy, which should never be beholden to foreign governments or corporations". Done right, it could be used to rally the "rabid far right" and the "loony left" of any country to the same greater good for all of humanity.
It could be argued though, that for the time and money taken to explore, map, develop, then extract that dinosaur juice, you could have built an entire country's worth of renewable energy sources.
Especially when you factor in that all that oil will be sold at "global market price", so none of it will result in cheaper energy for anyone.
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Maybe?
Worth risking life as we know it just to find out, for shiggles?
The truth is, there will be somewhere that they outcompete native fauna for resources but can't be stopped by what controls the natives, and whoops, there goes the ecosystem.