They think it's a hoax meant to funnel money into the pockets of scammers pushing these new green techs. They think it's just enriching liars who want to vilify things these people loved, all while making things somehow worse. Their vision isn't of a better future, they see a scammer getting rich while their power goes out every time it's cloudy outside or the wind stops.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2024/08/how-avoid-getting-burned-solar-or-clean-energy-scams

Unfortunately, some of those things do happen.

The bigger scam is the massive negative externalities of petroleum consumption but that's an abstract concept and these people are simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know...

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

its true, I love oil SO MUCH and these climate scientists are just SO MEAN to oil, it makes me sad. im sad for my friend, oil.

good thing we can always trust oil execs. they're such honest guys!

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

It's really funny that you bring up the rolling blackouts. I'm assuming you are meaning in Texas, but since wind and solar there have been perfectly consistent while it is the coal burning plants that have been failing to meet the needs of the state and crashing their janky power grid your point is really quite stupid.

[–] experbia@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

it's so fucked how often they're right to be suspicious about motives but only apply that suspicion to other industries or groups who aren't trying to trick them, and never their own, which are. I guess the first step a cult must take is immunize people against being affected by any other outside forces, malicious or not. they'll always implicitly trust the cult leaders who "let them in" on how their control works.