Really incredible that this isn't satire

Is Coalie really Towlie’s West Virginia cousin??

Yeah. Ok, the Chinese have all that future proof energy but they don't have even one coal based participation award. It's like they are not even trying!!

I don't think they think of it as winning. I don't think they care.

All they know is that several states have economies dependent on fossil fuel extraction with no other meaningful economic replacement.

Some of them are winning. At this point the game is shifting to an internal fight between domestic oligarchs for power and therefore profit.

Aren’t they? There’s never been a time for a few can enrichment themselves so much through government, implement the most vile policies through government, ignore consequences, laws, and checks and balances through government. A few highly self-centered individuals are living out their most hateful dreams

Because idea of winning is different from the rest of sane people.

A lot of early wind, solar, battery, and electric vehicle work was done in the US. The country has steadily lost leadership in all of those due to a lack of political support

It was starting under Biden.

They do it because they don't have enough oil and they know it.

From the article it seems they do have vested interests in coal.

I'd much prefer to see the US split up into separate states, then form a union much like the EU instead of the monolithic eldritch crap they have right now.

No. You can't split a country along urban/rural lines. Even if you split out the south, the rest would fight to take it back due to all the resources there, especially things like military bases.

That would be bad. I can't see a scenario where the US crumbles in a decade without global collateral damage.

A silent exit from global superpower would be the best option that involves the least amount of bloodshed

Realistically it’ll probably be more like a bankruptcy thing and admittedly somewhat like what Trump is doing.

Consider all he’s doing to destroy our industry, science, technology, throw away any global influence and good will, wreck our strong trading position, turn us inward, isolated, xenophobic. Keep people desperate with lost jobs, healthcare, government services. Think how that plays with the $1T in tax cuts for the wealthy, and leaving all our prior debt levels in the dust.

What happens when that all catches up? We forced into austerity measures, high inflation, unending joblessness, military we can’t come close to affording? Tax rates skyrocket and We fight to reclaim those tax cuts for the wealthy.