Not for them, and not for the horizon they care about. They’re, (and the US as a whole) heavily invested in fossil fuels, so economically for them it makes the most sense to squeeze as much profit from those investments as possible.
Comment on China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
not until we actually stop using fossil fuels. we are still using more fossil fuels than ever.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
iopq@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fund Ukraine to bomb Russian refineries. Huge win for the environment
halfsalesman@piefed.social 1 day ago
Only up to a point, fossil fuels getting cheaper will reach a point where it wont be worth extraction outside of for niche customers.
If renewables become plentiful and cheap enough globally fossil fuels will more or less die off in use, even if right now they're going upward in use its temporary. The problem is we're stuck with severe consequences even if they do eventually largely stop. We're stuck with severe consequences if they stop this very instant in fact.
What we really want is renewable energy to become so cheap and plentiful that not only do fossil fuels stop being used but carbon capture technology's high energy cost becomes null and it just becomes a net good. ATM the technology is useless because the high energy cost ends up just putting more co2 into the air anyway than is removed.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
my dad once said that if he was in Bush’s position, he would have used 9/11 to justify decoupling from Saudi oil and push for more solar and wind development
I still think about that. So many missed off-ramps to this…
frongt@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
If the US has tried that, SA would have tanked the dollar.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Perhaps. At the same time, we also had a better reputation then. A lot of countries were quick to jump on board when we decided who was gonna get invaded. Maybe they would have been just as eager to pull together and go green? Not that we’ll ever really know, of course.
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Actually right now US is not dependent on Saudi. Thanks to shale revolution it is now a net exporter.
Though, yeah that still pollutes and it didn’t remove our allies’ dependence so. The green tech should have been the next step.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
The tech wasn’t there yet
kalkulat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It was mostly there for windmills. One of the first big US windmills was built by Charles Brush … one of the early NYC electricity pioneers … over a century earlier. Dependency on oil (political) kept people from realizing how much free energy (fuel) the Sun sends us. WAY more than we can use.