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Oil companies do not care more about their bottom line than wind or solar does. The green lobby is just as strong if not stronger relative to its age.

Solar and wind are neither clean nor cheap, but they do have a lot of policial backing.

I know it's not a popular thing to say here it's none the less true.



When comparing wind or solar with oil or gas, in what sense is wind or solar not cleaner than oil or gas?


i am not comparing them as such i am saying that they arent as green as people think.

To actually produce them is one thing, they require huge areas of land to produce, they are unreliable meaningb they still need oil and gas and coal for when they dont work, solar uses rare earth metals, they can only be used for one thing and they currently only produce around 1% of our needs. They are great as supporting sources of energy but they arent actually solutions to our fundamental energy needs. And they arent as cheap as claimed since production, installation and decommissioning normally isnt factored into the cost when you see comparisons.

The greentech industry is every bit as bottomline focused as the oil industry and it is so with an inferior product mostly pushed through by political lobbying not on market terms.




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