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[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Maybe Texas should, you know, transition to selling wind energy so their economy doesn't crash when fossil fuels are finished.

I read Texas's biggest imports and exports are oil. So the only thing bigger than their oil economy is their resistance to change.

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

So here's the thing. When they say "Texas" in the royal sense like all of Texas is trying to will something, what they actually mean is the people and institutions capable of affecting change in Texas. Essentially the government and it's various arms.

Due to the fact that lobbying is very real and backroom payments are allowed to be a thing, the government inevitably bends to the entities with the most money. Guess who those entities are.

So when you say

Maybe Texas should, you know, transition to selling wind energy so their economy doesn't crash

what you're saying is

Maybe all those people who make their obscene riches in oil should give up their golden goose and let other people make their money in alternative energy forms

There's no reality where they go for that. "Texas" is always going to fight tooth and nail to keep alternate forms of energy down, because the biggest money in Texas is oil. The people have no control over that.

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago

You've worded this much more eloquently than I could have hoped to. Thank you 🙂

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But don't you see? They've discovered the most dirty and destructive ways possible to extract the lowest quality fossil fuel remnants in the world for just long enough that all the top executives will probably be dead or retired by the time it runs out! In other words, no problem!