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hunter

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5. Maybe they can build a few hundred square miles of solar "farms" too...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Jul 17, 2026, 03:12 PM

15 hrs ago

... and claim it's an essential component of the "energy transition."

Sigh. The only way we'll ever quit fossil fuels is to ban them.

Otherwise we'll just have to wait until our civilization collapses and fossil fuels become inaccessible because we no longer have the industrial capacity to extract them.

Civilizations don't last forever.

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