Good Morning Clo~!
Ah, the oil patch!
Moore's Law has a hell of a lot to do with it.
The Chinese did the world a favor by deciding to dominate the solar power field by flooding the world with cheap panels. As the panels have become ever more efficient the cost of the power diminishes. And of course the efficiency of continuously improving batteries makes the entire process more effective in less and less desirable locations for solar.
Universally, nobody likes to be extorted by a bunch of rag headed bastards with oil.
Even in a perfect supply and demand situation, people reject the idea of dependency on one source of energy.
As a kid I remember hiking through the Poconos on roads graded upon coal. So much coal that it was used as gravel.
Hopefully Oil will be this Century's coal.
Too much of it.
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