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   Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jan-2026 11:57:39 JST Lauren Weinstein

   A main reason Trump hates solar and wind power is that there's no
   practical way to steal them

   • Chris Were ⁂🐧📰🌱☕ repeated this.
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     @lauren

     yup

     the answer to why the usa is so interested in venezuelan oil, and why trump shuts down wind and solar projects, when solar and wind seem so much better in all respects, was summed up in a newspaper political cartoon from the 1970s:

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Peters_(cartoonist)