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Badtrainwreck t1_j8srvgm wrote

Reply to comment by voyageur77 in Elon Musk donates almost $2bn of Tesla shares to charity by Nergaal

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-releases/2010/01/cocacola-technoserve-and-gates-foundation-partner-to-boost-incomes-of-farmers-in-east-africa

This is the info just off the website of the foundation, you can follow the trail of you want, but it’s all just linked to nonprofits being used to increase stock value, and while packaged to look like they are just helping small businesses grow and make more money from selling to a particular corporation.

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texasauras t1_j8squ31 wrote

Reply to comment by bit1101 in Majority of Texans back shift to solar energy by Sorin61

Plenty of people with the means aren't adopting solar or renewables at a personal level. Furthermore, lacking energy security isn't a side effect of people adopting solar at home. Not sure what your agenda is, but it's not based on sound logic or reason.

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garlicroastedpotato t1_j8spydf wrote

Reply to Majority of Texans back shift to solar energy by Sorin61

The reason why the appeal to poll (a modified version of appeal to majority) arguments are so terrible is because polls lack the sort of realities that people have to deal with. When polled, 91% of Canadians wanted to get rid of the plastic film in meat packaging. When polled they were only willing to pay an average of $0.03 per package of meat for the change. The cheapest alternative was $0.80.

The poll data for this solar issue can be found here. What you can find here (Page 5) is that Texans actually want to expand the use of all energy sources except for coal and natural gas. Support for renewables was very unifying for Democrats but very divisive for Republicans. This might have been a fault of the polling questions. One of the polling questions was "Do you want to become reliant on FORMOFENERGY." Most Republicans probably don't want to be seen as reliant on anything or anyone because independence is usually one of their values.

The telling poll result is that over 80% of Texans want to spend surplus dollars on expanding natural gas and diesel fired plants.

So anyway, I wouldn't count this poll as being completely legitimate. The phrasing of the questions may have resulted in people answering No to questions they would have answered Yes to if it was just "do we need more" or "should we build more."

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bit1101 t1_j8soydg wrote

Reply to comment by texasauras in Majority of Texans back shift to solar energy by Sorin61

They should be grateful that people who can afford to invest in their own cost-saving and energy security, do?

They should be grateful that a side effect of this is that their own lack of energy security in the wealthiest country in the world is reduced?

Textbook Texan.

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