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Last year, clean energy attracted double the investment of fossil fuels. It’s now a multi-trillion dollar industry globally, and the dominant source of new capacity in the US.
And yet in the 2024 election cycle, the entire renewable energy industry donated just $2.5 million to political campaigns. The oil and gas industry donated $75 million just to elect one man.
Now consider crypto. A few years ago, most politicians treated it as a fringe technology at best. And then the crypto industry decided it was done being ignored and attacked. It built a war chest and spent hundreds of millions of dollars in 2024, representing nearly half of all corporate political spending that cycle.
As a result, crypto went from regulatory target to political kingmaker in a single election cycle.
