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4. Good catch. Germany has been weaning itself away from FFs for several years now.
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 05:32 PM
Jan 2025

About the "sand mafia," I inadvertently observed one of their operations. Years ago, a trawler or some sort of ship was sitting on the water not moving for days off the Miami coast. I realized what it was doing. This was a dredger picking up sand from the ocean bottom, which would lead to more sand erosion on the beach because of gravity.




When I told my wife's cousin about the dredger, he told me he had previously seen railroads with cars loaded with sand but didn't understand it. This crime is happening subtly before our very eyes.

And as for the rest of the fossil fuel-reliant countries:

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