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by thehappypm 1461 days ago
I think you’re letting perfect be the enemy of good. How do we get to zero? First cut in half. Then cut the second half. Waiting for a perfect solution today when there’s incremental progress to be made is foolish
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That's not going to happen, though. What is going to happen is we'll invest trillions of dollars into natgas infrastructure and then go all whoopsie-daisies-we-can't-afford-to-just-let-it-sit-idle, and we'll be permanently locked into it.

Temporary hacks have an odd way of becoming permanent features, especially when mind-blowing amounts of money are on the line.

That's exactly why you don't do that kind of temporary hack. Temporary hacks come in a variety of colors.