Comments on: Understanding the Politics of FRACKING and CRACKING in 2020 https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2020/10/22/understanding-the-politics-of-fracking-and-cracking-in-2020/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mary Wildfire https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2020/10/22/understanding-the-politics-of-fracking-and-cracking-in-2020/#comment-328227 Mary Wildfire Thu, 22 Oct 2020 12:26:09 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=34714#comment-328227 There are other things Pennsylvania could do as a clean, healthy alternative to promoting last century's fossil fuels and petrochemicals just as those industries go into terminal decline. Solar and wind, yes, but also lots of small businesses making alternatives to plastic -- or other things. $1.65 billion could subsidize a lot of start-ups! But there is a big obstacle -- the fossil fuel and chemical industries can and do bribe lawmakers to do their bidding, and solar and wind manufacturers can't compete. As for all those small businesses, the potential owners don't even know who they are -- they certainly can't appropriately bribe candidates and incumbents. Mary Wildfire There are other things Pennsylvania could do as a clean, healthy alternative to promoting last century’s fossil fuels and petrochemicals just as those industries go into terminal decline.

Solar and wind, yes, but also lots of small businesses making alternatives to plastic — or other things. $1.65 billion could subsidize a lot of start-ups!

But there is a big obstacle — the fossil fuel and chemical industries can and do bribe lawmakers to do their bidding, and solar and wind manufacturers can’t compete. As for all those small businesses, the potential owners don’t even know who they are — they certainly can’t appropriately bribe candidates and incumbents.

Mary Wildfire

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