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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1 ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Well, well...
Date: 01/22/25 12:56 PM
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Mike, the Green New Deal

There's no such thing as the "Green New Deal". You are referring to the "Inflation Reduction Act", which did no such thing. (It actually increased inflation).

Declines in public support for renewable energy have been driven by Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, whose support started to fall sharply after President Joe Biden took office in early 2021.

Or maybe...it's because wind and solar involve sending scads of money to China. Or maybe because both make very little sense as primary power sources for the United States. Oh, sure each can serve a purpose as supplements here and there but there's no universe where a significant percentage of US households will be powered by solar panels from a central source.

Want solar panels? By all means put some on your roof. We plan on doing that in our property in Central Washington where the sun shines 300 days a year (it doesn't rain every day in all of Washington, which is in fact home to a lot of high desert). Windmills are horribly bad for power/acre, kill birds, screw up whales, aren't green in terms of the amount of carbon it takes to produce and maintain one, and don't work when the wind doesn't blow and have loads of trouble in the winter.
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