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angrychair

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22. Always an excuse or compromise

Reply to Blanks (Reply #4)

Thu May 5, 2016, 03:24 PM

May 2016

This quote from you:

It's probably at least a 20 year plan.

It is always 10, 20, or 30 years away.
Funny how the goalposts keep moving. Funny how there is always money to subsidize the oil and coal industry to the tune of billions of dollars or spend more on Defense than the next 11 countries combined (all either our allies or non-hostile) but never enough for the actual R&D needed to achieve the goals people like HRC only give lip service too.
We are smart enough to figure out better ways of killing each other but not better ways to produce energy?

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