No, not even then. It was always about an astroturfed, tax-backed alternative to "muh eebil fossil fuels" wherein we don't talk about how catastrophically worse for the environment the lithium and cobalt mines, not to mention their child slave labor systems, are.
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Thats America for ya. everything is in somebodys interest. Enron used to be the spearhead of envitonmentally good energy, too