• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    My favorite Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said this:

    I think the moral of this story is, if you try to fight these new standards, these new ideas, by lobbying against them because some industries will feel threatened, as long as the lawyers and the lobbyists are part of this, progress isn’t gonna be made. As soon as both sides of the aisle, the Republicans and the Democrats, say, “Sorry, it’s gonna happen,” it’s then assigned to the engineers. And then progress is made.

    Sadly, the lawyers and the lobbyists have won.