Trump’s love of fossil fuels is about more than money | Moira Donegan
www.theguardian.com
The US decision to remove limits on coal and gas plant emissions is rooted in a perception of manliness in these industries

…part of Trump’s love of fossil fuels – and his accompanying hostility to climate change mitigation, green initiatives, and nature conservation – might be less transactional than libidinal. Because to him, part of the appeal of climate-destroying, future-inhibiting, polluting energy industries is not merely that their executives are writing him checks. It’s that he sees these industries, and these forms of energy consumption, as more manly.

  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    20 days ago

    It’s not about logic and reason, though.
    That’s exactly the point about those exhaust-sniffing, roaring-gasoline-engine-idolizing guys (and also about Trump).

    • Major_Tsiom@fedia.io
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      19 days ago

      Wanting a high performance car is not about logic and reason either. If you want a group that represents idolizing the internal combustion engine, it’s not the performance junkies or the status seekers, it’s Harley Davidson riders and diesel pickup drivers.

      • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
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        19 days ago

        I’m from Germany, here this group is represented primarily by the BMW 5-series drivers.
        Neither Diesel Pickups nor Harleys are culturally a big thing here.

        But speaking for the US you are probably right :-)

        • Major_Tsiom@fedia.io
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          19 days ago

          Yes, I’m in the US. The Harleys and coal rollers are probably an American thing… loud bikes and smoky pickups. (I ride a loud bike too, but mine is a Kawasaki.)