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Protect? For how long? It’s not a renewable resource.
Newly printed republican Elon Musk approves >

If tesla makes a gas car I will laugh my ass off >

So much for letting the coveted "Free Market" decide... >

Remember, it is only a free market so long as people who dropped out of an econ class right after learning about the supply curve agree that it is. >

Even all the big car companies are phasing out fossil fuel, I don't understand how they're so backwards. >

I wonder where they line up for tungsten light bulbs..  Palin wanted to outlaw LEDs. See how that went? >

The shower flow is not strong enough was a Trump rant, also the toilets do not have enough power to flush documents so that was a problem for Trump as well.
Anyone seeing a pattern of nonsensical deregulation? >

Sometimes it takes him 15 flushes, he said once. >

Why even hide the bribes now? >

Even fucking energy companies are slowly going away from it.
They're so fucking stupid. >

The GOP have just sold themselves to the fossil fuel industry. >

That was done over a century and a half ago...  Teapot Dome was just a footnote compared to the sale itself >

Marching headlong into the 18th century >

Won't anyone think of the fossil fuels!!? >

Because they too will become fossil fuels, already got the fossil part down >

Thankfully the market has decided otherwise. Even Dodge's muscle cars are going electric. 
Republicans just want to bail out another failing industry. >

If I were in more of an industrious mood, I'd go and google if they tried to pass legislation to protect buggy-whip makers when those new-fangled horseless carriages showed up around 1900, or whenever it was.   I suspect they did, and it was probably as funny to a lot of people then as phasing out electric cars sounds to me now. >

Mackinac Island in Michigan did. It's actually become a tourist destination because of it and was used in the film Somewhere Back in Time. >

Everytime I see a headline like this I think "They couldn't have said something so dumb...right?".

"The proliferation of electric vehicles at the expense of gas-powered vehicles will have deleterious impacts on Wyoming's communities and will be detrimental to Wyoming's economy and the ability for the country to efficiently engage in commerce," the resolution reads.
"Phasing out the sale of new electric vehicles in Wyoming by 2035 will ensure the stability of Wyoming's oil and gas industry and will help preserve the country's critical minerals for vital purposes."

I still want to believe they are not this stupid...yet here we are. >

Oh boy, if we don’t immediately use up this oil that has sat around for hundreds of millions of years, it will just suddenly disappear rather than sit around until actually needed >

the state makes a bunch of their money from the sale of oil. letting it sit in the ground doesn't pay the bills. >

Thus assuring fossil fuels outlive our species. >

Good luck with that. {SARCASTICALLY!} >

Exactly my sentiment.