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No, and nationalize the energy sector

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 @BCF7VRR  from North Carolina  agreed…3mos3MO

We can't be reliant on the bombing and destruction of third world countries for our energy. We must withdraw at once.

 @BC97ML2 from California  agreed…3mos3MO

It is dumb to keep drilling oil. You could keep oil and using it for now but the future is in green and renewable energy, nuclean fusion etc. We are just going to go behind on energy production and we must diversify. Also green energy keeps the environment beautiful. Nationalizing the energy sector is good to keep prices cheap.

 @9FPTLGFProgressivefrom Maine  disagreed…3yrs3Y

Present day the world has changed into a geopolitical battleflied. America needs to be autarkic when it comes to its energy independence.

 @9G9D7QW from Nebraska  agreed…3yrs3Y

I would like to change my answer to simply No, and reason being, it destroys land, animals, and our planet as whole.

 @9G7MBRY from Utah  agreed…3yrs3Y

If profit drives free market decisions, but the entire country more or less needs energy and must pay for it, profit thus comes from cost cutting, extortion, and gouging, rather than effective or efficient energy. This means that the free market determination that the best option will win can no longer be true, as the most profitable option is not the same as the most effective or good option. Privatized energy also stratifies access to energy by income level, which further decreases class mobility (a poor person becoming richer) by limiting poor people's access to effective energy plans.

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