This future is so weird “YOU’RE GOING TO BREATHE CLEAN AIR AND HAVE FREE ENERGY WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!!!” Texas:“Nooooo help we’re being oppressed”
It’s a lot simpler than that: Texas has a HUGE oil and natural gas industry lobby that views wind and solar as existential threats.
Oil & gas is mostly consolidated and lobbies under just a few really powerful firms. Wind and solar don’t have a lobbying arm with that kind of power. It’s too dispersed with too many disperate entities that don’t view themselves as being on the same team.
It’s just another way that money in politics corrupts everything. Even though there’s more players in the solar and wind markets the oil & gas industry has a lot more money to throw around at lobbying.
It’s a lot simpler than that: Texas has a HUGE oil and natural gas industry lobby that views wind and solar as existential threats.
This cannot be overstated. I live in Texas and was recently a part of jury selection, and the number of people who have had or are currently getting kickbacks from oil companies was shockingly high. They don’t just influence politicians, they influence the average voter simply by paying them a lot of money to scout on their property or operate a well.
They have so much influence in Texas, it’s astounding.
“No! My dystopias!”
They’ll always have Gilead.
