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Here is what I posted to Cleantechnica regarding today's Meet the Press: Read this right after watching Meet the Press with Chuck Todd (a double-chummy name) at a big Red table, with Red backdrops and Red clothing as the across-the-board conservative commentators hyped up war talk. Joe Manchin was there (without mention of his top rank in receiving fossil fuel financing) to assert Americans won't mind paying more at the pump in order to support a vague "freedom." After swiping at Biden vaguely as a cause of inflation, Manchin called for raising our gas prices, not to fund repair and remedy of mounting global warming disasters and tragedy via a gas tax that invests in our future, but to pump up profits to whoever else (be they Russian, Saudi, U.S., or Canadian) supplies coal, gas, and natural gas - no matter what that does to our immediate and impending environment. As the hapless Ukrainians and Russian soldiers both suffer in this mad rush to control and profit from natural gas under the ground and in pipelines, the hyper-wealthy plutocrats in Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the U.S. all rake in the money. Oh, and the arms manufacturers on both sides too. Nikki Haley dismissed any attempts at diplomacy with Russia and the new enemy we're being prepped to hate, China, a whole new needless arena for the renewal of the war machine. Lost in this same old cyclic round of arrogance, bluster, and eventual tragedy (perhaps worse than humanity has ever seen) is the cooperative and creative attention these supposed world leaders could be marshalling to address this trans-historic problem of transitioning away from ruining our environment with machines we know we shouldn't be using. The sun will still shine and the wind blow, but on and over what?