It's good for poor and middle class rural/suburban residents as well. This along with cultural factors like "guns and religion" are whats really the matter with Kansas and other states.
"Renewables" are a joke, ethanol subsidies drive up corn and wheat prices but do little for energy. Solar and wind are simply not up to the task of supporting an industrialized society without a quantum leap in storage or transmission technologies. The only viable alternatives to fossil fuels available today are fission, hydro-electric, geothermal and the environmental lobby hates nukes, dams, and drills way more than they hate oil.
It's politics all the way down.
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Date: 30/10/14 16:55 (UTC)"Renewables" are a joke, ethanol subsidies drive up corn and wheat prices but do little for energy. Solar and wind are simply not up to the task of supporting an industrialized society without a quantum leap in storage or transmission technologies. The only viable alternatives to fossil fuels available today are fission, hydro-electric, geothermal and the environmental lobby hates nukes, dams, and drills way more than they hate oil.
It's politics all the way down.