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by rjr8r83ueue 2243 days ago
Coal has been on it's way out in the U.S. for awhile thanks to natural gas. Natural gas is also the biggest driver of pre-covid emission reductions for the United States (as far as energy sources go at least). People want to spend another decade investing in green power generation to make it less awful when there's plenty of low-hanging efficiency gains we could be doubling down on today. But then we wouldn't get to brag about how much we're like the Europeans.