Stuck in a fossil fueled fantasy, that can only be true if one ignores all empirical evidence and has no expertise?

Says little for anyone in business, public life and society avoiding innovation, science and progress, to benefit selected sectors especially fossil fuels?

Hardly sovereignty, freedom, liberty and prosperity when the future is avoided; simply negative and backwards looking for special interest groups.

Not dissimilar to tensions within GOP between BigTech Bros & immigration vs MAGA and white Christian nationalism; not sustainable?

Ditto LNP with the urban Libs following science versus regional town based Nats who follow medical science, but not climate science?

When people such as Greenie's talk about tracking to the future technology I think of Bill Gates comment... paraphrasing "people overestimate the improvements over the next five years and underestimate the improvements over the next twenty years".

I suspect that Greenie's have a worse predictive capacity than other groups such as engineers, especially when I see them re-factoring their estimates by tricky financial arrangements and government incentives. If you look back I can't remember Henry Ford getting this sort of government sponsorship and risk mitigation. He took the risk he got the profits (or losses).

When I searched for Elon Musk into DuckDuckGo I got the following interesting and ridiculous paragraph...

Elon Musk
South African-born businessman, far-right activist, and Tesla and SpaceX CEO

Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman known for his key roles in the space company SpaceX and the automotive company Tesla, Inc. Wikipedia
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I also found this image interesting...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gf-vBO4WsAEDdAA?format=jpg&name=medium

Greenies are people who need to call on everyone else for help & mostly Govt funding to survive !

Local politics and excessive fees may reduce dependence on the Suez and Panama canals. Going around Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope is costly for diesel/bunker fuelled ships, I guess not so much for nuclear propelled. However I see the US Navy routinely takes nuke ships throught the canals rather than taking the long way round.

With Egypt joining BRICS it could mean interesting times for the Suez Canal. We need to find an alternative.