Fossil fuels (even synthetic "e" fuels) are not cleaner and they waste energy.

AI is entering a doom loop where it hallucinates then incorporates the hallucination into subsequent versions.
Eventually AI will be all hallucinations.

Yes, we have a limited amount of money.
If you're going to spend money, spend it on renewables, not dead end fools fuel.

Renewable energy is cleaner and cheaper than any fossil fuel (or ersatz fossil fuel).
Don't waste money building fools fuel infrastructure just to keep polluting.

Bill Gates knows how to make money by exploiting consumers, government, and workers.
This is just another of his scams.

Lost me there...

It takes more energy to make synthetic fuels than you get out of them. Also, when you burn them you create pollution (particulates, nitrogen compounds, etc.).
Much more efficient to just use the electricity directly.

All of these "e" alternatives are polluting, take more energy that just using the electricity directly and delay the necessary transition to renewable energy.
Fossil fuel companies love these polluting "solutions" since it gives them an excuse to keep their drilling, pipelines, refineries, etc. running.
They don't slow down climate change. Since they are so inefficient, they actually increase CO2 and pollution.
Gates et al are investing in these things to make money, not out of the goodness of their hearts.

Electrify everything.
Solar, wind, batteries, hydro are good, cheap, renewable, non-polluting energy sources.
There are very few things that can't be converted to electricity.
Fossil fuels (and their "e" substitutes... H2, "green" methane, eDiesel, eJetfuel, etc. ) are polluting, inefficient and cause serious environmental damage.
As a society we are dying from the pollution from fossil fuels. We need to get off of them ASAP.

All of these projects are designed to keep supporting the fossil fuel infrastructure with green-washing thrown in.
eDiesel and other eFuels are inefficient but they keep fossil infrastructure in place.
All of the CO2 capture technologies are inefficient but also keep fossil fuel infrastructure in place.

It started in earnest with Ronald Reagan who ordered the Justice Department to halt enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1983

Yes, we need these "job creators". /s

The politicians are just the pawns of the rich. Politicians are bribed by the rich to pass laws in their favor.
Many politicians also become rich by passing laws to help themselves.

There are a lot of psychopaths who are happy just to accumulate money and buy "friends".
They love being the "richest asshole around". They run our economy.

The natural course of capitalist organizations is to merge together, collude and fix prices once they have enough "market power".
We are in late stage capitalism now where just about everything we buy is sold by some mega corporation which doesn't have any effective competition.
That's why we have "greedflation" raising prices and increasing corporate profits as a result of decades of lax anti-trust enforcement.