yes they did, and it delayed us 40 years, which might prove to be the 40 years that would have made all the difference...

but the truth will out, and people put 2+2 together themselves!

solar power doesn't work, they'd say, and meanwhile it's on the space station, and half the emergency traffic lights have a pv panel perched over them!

even now here in italy, they purport to support alt. energy with 'iniziativi', but the rollout is achingly slow, because of all the glacial molasses bureaucracy, and the shadiness of some of the characters trying to 'get rich quick' on the changes not exactly inspiring trust in the enquiring citizen, brain seriously bent out of shape by having been lied to for decades, but whose ratcheting utility bills are getting his attention...

they pulled the wool but good, but you can only fool all of the people some of the time...

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty