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Electric Cars Are Pushing the Age of Oil to Extinction in China (www.bloomberg.com)

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Woah hold the phone, you're telling me there's a way to build society OTHER than by explicitly rewarding greed and exploitation‽

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

It is a similar story in Saudi Arabia and many Arab countries. The oil and gas is nationally owned, and the revenues are being used to finance a massive welfare state as well as the transition away from fossil fuels.