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by hackable_sand 43 days ago
It's nice to be optimistic, but we already have incentives to upgrade to renewable energy.
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Short of fuel rationing and gas lines, over $150/week to fill your SUV is probably the biggest incentive possible.
If you look at it from a world rather than USA perspective, expensive oil is encouraging other countries to buy new energy tech and EVs from China. It was probably going to happen anyways, but Trump sped it up.