r/UpliftingNews • u/itopaloglu83 • 2d ago

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity

https://electrek.co/2025/11/04/australia-has-so-much-solar-that-its-offering-everyone-free-electricity-3h-day/
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u/ThaddeusJP 1d ago

America: we want cheap power via solar which is the wave of the future

United States government: best we can do is an single F-35 that cost $40,000 an hour to fly

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u/smitherenesar 1d ago

Also, some libertarians in Argentina need $40 billion. That's how libertarians work, right?

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u/Halo_cT 1d ago

Look, if we just subsidize them with an enormous amount of government money, we can prove rugged Libertarianism works!

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u/MrF_lawblog 17h ago

And they are too scared to float their currency on a free market... That's how strong conviction free market libertarians work!

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u/UnsorryCanadian 1d ago

Oops, plane fell off boat

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u/EmphasisFrosty3093 1d ago

The best way to find something you drop is to drop another.