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I think it's stupidity and malice, the latter being dominant. When you consider that he receives gobs of money from the fossil fuel industry, it's pretty easy to expect the current situation.

Market riggers using the GOP to make ridiculously stupid bets and then cashing in for outsized gains when they bend the world toward stupidity with expensive disinformation campaigns that make them actually come true. The darkest form of capitalism.

Renewable energy is "woke shit" to the right. Liberals like it so the right hates it and is willing to hurt themselves as long as they can hurt the left more. There's not much else to it.