In my opinion the most baffling (and angering) part of this post was the chart of DOE energy technology research investment from 2009-2018. Forget about the nuclear spending, how is it that, during the Obama administration, we spent more researching fossil fuel tech, which is supposed to be a dead technology, than we spent on what almost everyone agrees will be the future of energy, renewables? I wonder what percentage of that is carbon capture and storage, what percentage is discovery and extraction, and what else we’re throwing our money away on. The big oil and gas companies are some of the most profitable companies in the history of the world, can’t they pay for it themselves? Why are taxpayers paying to make the environment worse? It’s madness!
In my opinion the most baffling (and angering) part of this post was the chart of DOE energy technology research investment from 2009-2018. Forget about the nuclear spending, how is it that, during the Obama administration, we spent more researching fossil fuel tech, which is supposed to be a dead technology, than we spent on what almost everyone agrees will be the future of energy, renewables? I wonder what percentage of that is carbon capture and storage, what percentage is discovery and extraction, and what else we’re throwing our money away on. The big oil and gas companies are some of the most profitable companies in the history of the world, can’t they pay for it themselves? Why are taxpayers paying to make the environment worse? It’s madness!