Every sensible government will spend the coming months accelerating the deployment of solar, batteries, heat pumps, and EVs, especially for lower income households. It’ll be a hell of a lot cheaper in the long run than subsidising fossil fuels the next time prices spike, which they will.

April 08, 2026 - 07:05 UTC

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What's a sensible government? 🤷
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💯 and china is the place its all
Going to come from.

Imagine the transfer of wealth and power thats been accelerated.
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all taxes and duties on renewable energy components (panels, batteries) must be suspended.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/07/iran-war-oil-phase-out-fossil-fuels?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Our UK govt is already putting solar panels on all social housing, I get mine on Friday 🙂
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Hi, make sure they do it properly and tell you how it works. They are notorious for hit and run installations. Feel free to ask me questions if you need help after the installation.
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So, you know the U.S. won’t.
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I agree 100%. My only problem is we need to lower the cost of electricity. I was paying over $1,000 a month for electricity in Maine before I got solar panels installed on my roof. Not everyone can afford that. We are being price gouged out of having electricity.
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@mark-carney.bsky.social
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AmeriKKKa can never have nice things, because then BLACK FOLKS will have nice things.
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China thanks you for your attention in this matter.

The US commitment to the HUGE concentrations of MONEY in oil/gas may well have been suicidal.

China couldn't be better positioned
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every US state should be allowing the cheap plug in solar units available now
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Some heavy subsidies to get all of these into homes.

Just not done in a way allows greedy businesses swallow the subsidy and canter off into the sunset much much richer. Kerching.
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We all need a billionaire tax which buys EVs for the lowest quartile of income. Sound fair?
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By sensible government, you mean every government other than the U.S. federal government, right?
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Every sensible government except ours! $trump will continue with his anti-climate change BS, push for less renewable energy sources and more fossil fuel consumption.
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Uuummm maybe the UK Government will but the local Green Councils they don't want them in their back yards.
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The NIMBY party… by another name..😉
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Sadly, ours is not a sensible government.
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Concerns about energy security should motivate energy conservation and the sustainable transition, but governments must acknowledge the need for these actions in order to mitigate climate change. If the focus is only on energy security, then energy-saving behavior may stop when scarcity ends.
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Let’s hope there are lots of smart govts that will decide to not be a pawn to genocide living Donald Trump and his evil conspirators ever again.
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And Jimmy will just be sitting up in heaven nodding his head and shrugging his shoulders!🤷‍♂️
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Yaeh right. Corporations hold more power. They are the real gov. Politicians, specially conservatives are there just for the bribes. Not to represent the will of the people.
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Unfortunately, our government is not sensible.
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Wish the U.S. was sensible! But noooo…rich people and a corrupt administration are lining their pockets at the expense of the rest of us 🤬
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For heating and transport, oil is yesterday's fuel.
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The global progress on renewables is incredible. Have to say though, China kicked this off and leads the world. Time for the UK to stop reliance on fossil fuels.
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Prices are gonna spike in 14 days lol (at the latest)
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bsky.app/profile/janrosenow.bsky.social/post/3mixw5vv74s2p
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Smart
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Damn right!
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My neighbor put 2 gallons of gas in her car because it was $4.19 a gallon. I said, you paid 8.38 for 2 gallons of gas? I pointed at my EV and said, "I filled it for $8.41."
I get the same amount of miles a week as I did in my gas powered car. I'll never go back.
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Me neither. I fill my EV from my solar panels.
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Here, at night rates, I can charge from 0-100% for $CDN5.50, for an range of 400-500km(depending on season). That's about $US4.00
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The sensible government would eliminate subsidies for the auto industry including insurance mandates, parking minimums, free-to-use roads, tax incentives, regulatory relief, zoning favors, permissive treatment for inept drivers and scofflaws, government / central bank bailouts for finance, etc.
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Unfortunately, "sensible" governments will do their best to ignore long-term problems, focus on tomorrow's topic and quickly move on...
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Also nuclear!
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And most of all: nuclear
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Fossil fuels are being subsidised even when the prices don't spike:
www.imf.org/en/topics/climate-change/energy-subsidies
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When it rains everyone wants to fix the roof. When the rain stops, not so much.
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So much to be done here in France
When I went to Athens nearly every building had solar water heating on the roof
Back in the South of France only a few wealthy villas had solar panels deployed
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That will not of course include the USA... Sensible is perhaps the last word you would use about us now.
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I don't know why hydro power is slept on. That's our bread and butter source. Geothermal too.
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Guess which government is not sensible?

Guess which government will further de-incentivize alternates away from fossil fuels?

Billionaires are the ruling class in the US. They will continue to prevail. They will continue to screw citizens.
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100% agree. Unfortunately, "sensible" is carrying all the weight in that sentence.
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And the US will trail for years...
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He's not dead yet, so he's not done yet.
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I agree but every state needs to invest on reliable power grids and that isn't the case. Some states have horrible grids with glitches, power outrages etc. They should be made by those beyond the state level to fix these issues. In some states having an EV isn't practical bases on these grid issues.
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"Sensible" is a big ask from governments that are mostly in thrall to billionaires and Big Oil interests.
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More likely to ramp up military spending.
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And the US will not, because we dont have sensible government
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Trump is playing 4D Chess.
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America won't, not as long as Trump is in charge. We need to get rid of Trump. I'm so tired of running so far behind other countries in the common sense things, as we do now.
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Yes, the UK government has accelerated the next renewables auction, brought it forward 6 months, and is also trying to get “balcony solar” through the regs as quickly as possible.
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Anyone would think that the boomers and elder Gen X folks running certain countries had spent the oil shocks of the 1970s in a drug-fuelled haze from which they remember nothing.
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The oldest Gen X would have been 8 years old in 1973. I doubt they were either on drugs or buying oil products.
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That doesn't include America of course.
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Between this ceasefire and Trump breaking it there is not enough time to go eco
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Spain uses mostly clean renewable energy sources and they cut the federal tax on gasoline so that gasoline actually costs less now than it did before Donny’s excursion into Iran. The EU is way ahead of the US in renewable energy, high speed trains, high MPG cars.
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We could have been way ahead of this curve, but oh 'well'
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It is the last attempt of the fossile fuel oligarchs to maintin their concentrated power. They fear the day that they don't have leverage over large amounts of people. They invest all their ressources now to manipulate politicians and opinion leaders world wide to maintain the fossile age a bit more
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My concern with the fossil fuel companies are when they decide the future of oil etc is short term, they will buy out the wind farm and solar panel companies. Once achieved they will control the price we have to pay for ‘free’ electricity and they will continue to bleed us unless checked..
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That's music to my ears, James! Investing in renewable energy is a no-brainer, especially for those who need it most.
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If you can show me a sensible government, I have a bridge to sell you. Unfortunately.
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I wish I could afford solar
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I guess we're not a sensible government, with the Petrochemical companies pulling the strings....
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The EVs won’t be cheap.
Law of Supply & Demand.
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You can rule us out
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Our government is busy eliminating every subsidy they can and canceling every renewable project they can find. That’s what happens when oil-adoring Republicans getting buckets full of money from the oil companies get in office.
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Hey, at least there is 1 silver lining, among all these horrors
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and who is paying for all this ?? YOU ?
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show me one "SENSIBLE" government on earth ...
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Yeah idk if the average American can live with gas at its current level. It’s going to stay around 3.50 here I bet
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