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Renewables and taking action against climate change are thankfully starting to become a bipartisan issue. For example Sweden passed bipartisan legislation that the country should be carbon neutral by 2045.
https://unfccc.int/news/sweden-plans-to-be-carbon-neutral-by-2045
While Denmark with a right wing government got 43 percent of their power from wind power in 2017 and plan to get half of all their energy needs met with renewables by 2030.
https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2018/0111/932573-denmark-wind-farm/
Norway have also a right wing government and half of new cars sales is electric or hybrid and the country have the goal of that all new cars should be zero emission vehicles by 2025.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ar-sales-now-electric-or-hybrid-idUSKBN1ES0WC
Renewables are also starting to become a bipartisan issue on a local level in the US. For example that wind or solar are already the cheapest option in most Republican congressional districts.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshua...n-leaders-love-renewable-energy/#631e530f3da7
Who cares what another nation spends more on. Instead of asking us to emulate them, just move there.
Wind is only cheaper due to subsidies in the USA.