Why MAGA suddenly loves solar power. The right finally reckons with solar’s crucial role in powering AI and keeping energy bills in check. MAGA influencers say it’s crucial to US competitiveness, the grid’s reliability and their movement’s political survival. “We would not have seen that last year.”

Source: mafco

11 Comments

  1. Mediocre_Date1071 on

    1) Having internally consistent beliefs, or a reason why they have changed, is no longer expected
    2) Solar is so much better it will win regardless of politics. At some point that becomes apparent. 

  2. MasterSnacky on

    This is just embarrassing. MAGA is like the worst coworker or boss you have – they cannot be convinced anything is a good idea until they’re convinced it’s THEIR idea, and they will drag everyone around them through absolute misery before they finally figure it out. Absolute fucking drag on society.

  3. Affectionate-Panic-1 on

    There’s tech bros on the right, think Elon Musk camp, that have always supported solar.

    MAGA isn’t a monolith of beliefs

  4. Apprehensive_Tea9856 on

    As the fossil fuel money dries up, the lobbyist will come from newer industries.

    Meat industry will fight lab grown meat and plant. Dairy industry plant based milks. Eventually the newer products win and they eventually lobby congress themselves

  5. flyingtiger188 on

    Pretty standard MO for the “conservatives.” Vocally against something until it directly affects them. Now that power bills are spiking due to tech bros insatiable demand for power to run their AI data centers now the average joe is footing the cost for all that extra demand. So naturally they want alternative means of cheaper power.

  6. Someone finally had an epiphany. You mean we’re not going backwards towards coal spewing out mercury, and all kinds of goodies for us to breathe and eat

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