Marco Rubio dropped out of the Republican presidential race on Tuesday night after losing badly to Donald Trump in his home state of Florida.

You're failing to see the point that business are forced to pay more for their energy needs because of strict regulations on fossil fuels.

That SAME argument was made with Coal before we moved on to Oil. Do you know why we moved on in the end? Read up on 'Peak Coal' and 'Peak Oil'.

Oil is not endless in it's affordability to extract. It WILL become more expensive over time. When people talk about oil running out, they aren't talking about it literally running out, that will likely never happen. They're talking about the affordability of extracting oil running out. And all of the oil that's easy to get to IS running out. The same thing happened with coal and it's why we moved on from it as a primary source for it's uses and purposes. What's going to replace oil as we continue to move further and further away from peak oil?

Yes, in the short-run businesses will move elsewhere, but in the long run they'll move back once the price differences tighten, consumer focus changes, incentives are offered, current incentives and benefits become more apparent, etc.

And even if they don't move back, there will always be other companies to replace them, which is literally already happening and has been happening since the dawn of the industrial revolution. How many times has a business vanished because they refused to be early adopters on something so obviously the way of the future? It happens all the time. The early adopters today will be the front-runners of the future. Who do you think is going to be the main manufacturer of autonomous vehicles? But what incentive do they have currently? Practically none. It's practically entirely future-profit based.

You are looking at things in too short of a time period, others are not and they are the one's who will benefit the most in the end. There's no reason to concern yourself with what many businesses will do, because in the end it doesn't matter what they do. There are plenty of businesses who are still pushing forward with solar energy, so let these other businesses go elsewhere. It doesn't matter long-term and the short-term isn't stopping any of what's currently happening from continuing to happen.

And it's not like we can't force change. The people have that power, they're just not aware on how to use it. But the internet and the spread of technology is changing that. Look at what Reddit alone has allowed to happen. Look at how things will be 20 years from now in that same regard.

TL:DR - Your point is valid in it's own right, but your overall message is a complete miss. Companies will move elsewhere, other companies will fill in the gaps. That's how it has always been and it's how it will continue to be for reasons that are entirely solid. Peak Oil is a thing. Natural and artificial incentives are also a thing. Endeavor for endeavor's sake is also a thing. Future-planning for large long-term businesses is yet another thing. Let companies and their workforce's move out, they and their jobs will be replaced. Eventually we'll have too many people and not enough jobs without artificial job creation, but that's neither here nor there and has no actual bearing on this specific argument.

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