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It's because they make everything and have spare money to spend on research.
The US runs on debt, and we are running out of debt.
Why spend money on new technology when you can ensure our fossil fuel oligarchs are the richest in the world? Why struggle for a place with new technology when you can dominate previous technology?
We have a president with a personal vendetta against wind turbines who exhausted the legal ways to block development of wind farms so is spending $1B to have a company walk away from one
Ngl good explanation