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US leadership was actively pushing for rolling back energy standards (that California was fighting for quite strongly).

US has achieved a lot (especially Tesla) _despite_ the leadership working against it for a long time.

True. Unfortunately many still think a centrally planned system of picking winners and losers is superior to the free market, but luckily the past 4 years was enough to send capable entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk into the stratosphere (and beyond).

I don’t know, we all owe Germany quite a bit for their solar subsidies.

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