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=== Corporate Lobbying Against Renewable Energy and Electrified Railways ===
I believe the scientists who say that Climate Change actually exists and think that the best things we can do to reduce the carbon emissions our countries create is to force businesses to migrate away from fossil fuel to renewable energy as fast as the renewable energy can be made to be reliable.

Wind farms are an easy win, as are solar panels. Unlike with the harvesting of coal or oil, you do not have to burn and destroy what you harvest to get the energy. There are installation costs, there are maintenance costs and replacement costs, but if this was done in a responsible way, the cost to consumers could be reduced down to just the cost of maintaining the electricity grid and paying for teams of people who repair broken power lines. It wouldn't be totally free energy, but it could be a lot lot cheaper.

Another easy win is to build or upgrade passenger railways in cities and other areas that have a high number of commuters, so that some people who drive to work are able to choose to take a train to work instead. Every person who rides an electric train to work is one person less burning petrol / gasoline to commute, so that is a carbon emissions win and them not needing to drive also cleans up the air quality. And for the other motorists, if you can get some of the cars sharing the road with them to stay in the driveway of their owners, they are going to have less traffic on the way to and from work. So everyone can win, even if they need to drive into the city, because they have a van full of tools and work in different places.

However, there has been a lot of dark money used to campaign politically against green energy and railways. Elon Musk has been caught out telling someone that his Hyperloop White Paper was released to slow down the adoption of high-speed rail in the USA and the tactic worked.

I believe that the role of companies is to provide goods and services and that, when it comes to laws, a billionaire only gets one vote - the same as the rest of us - and should not be allowed to have more political influence than anyone else. Some of the things I'd push back on are likely to be beyond the scope of what Consumer Rights Wiki is here for and any opinions on this user page are mine only and do not represent Consumer Rights Wiki.