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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (494937)	7/19/2022 4:24:38 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 541109

Not "cold turkey" - who said that? Where are the "Windfall Profits Tax"? Oh - Congress is on the take: Putting the carrot and stick to work with Adam Smith's invisible hand certainly was done for Standard Oil, often characterized as a "defense initiative" but in reality, to enrich a few. Semiconductor industry was largely a spinoff technology from the Space Race. These things can be verified. History of oil depletion allowances. motherjones.com From Northrup/Grumman themselves on semiconductors. now.northropgrumman.com Another reference fastcompany.com

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (494937)

7/19/2022 8:41:42 PM

From: koan

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The president could do a Manhattan project and build tons of large solar and wind farms, but the carbon industry would use the Republican party to protest that.

Large solar and wind farms about as economical as oil and gas these days I think!!?

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"But going (green, my edit) electric could be argued as a national security imperative. That would take years to undo."

About half or a third as long as it would take to actually do, even if it was all done thru the legislative process. There are no quick fixes, even tho that's really what we need. We can fuck up the economy, like the Depression on steroids kind of fuck up, by going cold turkey on fossil fuels, but it will take 25 or 30 years with our current economy to replace the lost energy.