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[–] • 7 pts

A daily reminder that the big bad oil industry actually owns the majority of patents for "green energy." Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

[–] • 2 pts

Doesn't it seem like it's always that way?

[–] • 2 pts

If you have common sense and know that rich people can afford to invest into any of their future competitors with very little financial risk in doing so, then yes it was always that way. People (as in the left) really believe that suddenly when or if green energy arrives it will table flip the big oil industry and those in charge when that's not the case at all. No different than vapes to cigarettes. The ciggy companies own the patents to vaping too.

[–] • 2 pts

Sure. I was just speaking to the irony of the situation. That no matter what way you turn it's alway a small group of people that control everything. I didn't mean it in a screechy leftist way.

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Only shitty dime-store vapes are directly sold by tobacco companies. Of course they get the nicotine from somewhere, which I figure is tobacco. But what I'm saying is vaping doesn't appear to be patented in a way the prevents you from doing it without permission from a patent holder. Or the Chinese are just completely ignoring the patents. I could believe that.