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piratecheese13 t1_jd98qlg wrote

Reply to comment by PlentyCommission166 in Maine's Energy future by mainething

Step 1: during the time that we really did need gasoline, gas companies spent a lot of money, knowingly lying.

Step 2: when you cultivate a group of people who believe lies, they become galvanized against the truth

Step 3: the people who are most easily convinced of these lies are the also the kind of people who believe the world should never change. These are the people who believe you can get back to five cents a gallon. These the people it’s hardest to convince that solar panels are no longer full of super Duper unrecyclable poison.

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ralphy1010 t1_jdaefd2 wrote

no, now it's they just think the solar looks ugly and that is their reason for not wanting it. Or windmills kill birds as if they suddenly care about birds.

The reality is most of the baby boomers are simply being selfish and trying to take as much as they can up to the very last moment of their lives. They truly don't care what happens after they are gone as long as their gas is cheap and the market is good enough to supplement the pathetic amount of money they set aside for their retirements. They've learned nothing from the last 50 years of history so there is no reason to expect them to change now.

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