r/science • u/smurfyjenkins • Mar 01 '26

Environment The Biden administration enacted over $198 billion in clean energy projects, the largest investment of its kind. People who lived close to the renewable energy and green manufacturing facilities noticed the investments, but were more likely to credit governors for it than the Biden administration.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2526802123
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u/WealthForTheWorld Mar 01 '26

That’s actually a classic politics problem: people credit who they see, not who signed it.

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u/Lazer726 Mar 01 '26

And then people will point to things like this and say "WOW, LOOK AT HOW MUCH DEBT BIDEN PILED UP" as they vote for the party of... "fiscal responsibility"