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Re:Why Do Transit Agencies Keep Falling for the Hydrogen Bus... by nyokodo on Friday March 14, 2025 @11:09PM (#43369616)
> should make you realize how powerful the oil gas lobby is

Or, should make you realize how infeasible the green transition is and destructive the green lobby is in its myopic pursuit of net zero and neglect of climate adaptation.

Re:Why Do Transit Agencies Keep Falling for the Hydrogen Bus... by gibolt on Friday March 14, 2025 @11:14PM (#43369648)
We are already on the path to have the grid converted to majority green energy over the next decade. Solar is by far the largest of New deployments and growing annually.

Grid batteries are just starting to scale up.

These are cheaper than any other option by far, with the shortest payback period.

Re:Why Do Transit Agencies Keep Falling for the Hydrogen Bus... by jiggawatts on Saturday March 15, 2025 @01:12AM (#43370150)
You're being downvoted because you're wrong, but sadly about 20-30% of the population shares your views and this needs to be addressed.

The people telling you that green energy "can't happen" are precisely the same group of people that will lose the capital they've invested in non-green energy technologies.

That's it. That's the reason you believe this.

You've been told over and over, by very loud and very well funded people to not even bother trying to replace legacy non-renewable energy sources with renewable energy sources. One hundred percent of the funding for this messaging comes from non-renewable energy companies, their shareholders, employees, and others with vested interests.

None of these people have your personal interests at heart.

Interest such as "having a livable planet" or having... you know... energy that won't run out in like a hundred years because... drumroll... they're literally advocating for energy sources that are NOT renewable. Finite. Expiring. Running dry.

"Oil baron with crushing loan repayments says the remaining drops of crude must be pumped out, no other option for the world. News at 11."

Re:Why Do Transit Agencies Keep Falling for the Hydrogen Bus... by csomar on Saturday March 15, 2025 @01:31AM (#43370227)
That could have been an argument for a suspicious individual but China has showed otherwise. China came late to the green transition and now they are ahead of anybody else. And they are big and not relatively rich.