…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.

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    22 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 :-)

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      21 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.)