> It's way, way easier to improve solar panel and battery storage tech until fossil fuels are completely uneconomical than to get the entire world to abandon fossil fuels while fossil fuels are the most economical source of energy by far.

No it's not. I mean technically it is, you're 100% right. But politically you're 100% wrong. They can't wait to slap a tax on sun, panels, storage etc. and bring your costs of living higher than when you were using fossil fuels.

You can fight the economic forces, but you can't win. The moment you stop pushing against them is the moment the economic reality reasserts itself.

Even if one administration was all in on fossil fuel, and fully opposed to renewables? Best it can do is buy fossil fuels some time, in one country only.

In the meanwhile, renewable power is going to get even cheaper - because there are still improvements to be made and economies of scale to be had in renewables. Fossil fuel power not so much. The economic incentives to abandon fossil fuels would only grow over time.

This is the kind of power the right technology has.

Even if you believe that the US government is 100% dominated by fossil fuel interests and everything it does is to ensure their existence and profitability in perpetuity, if solar or renewables became sufficiently economic, those interests (at the behest of their shareholders) would start investing in renewables for the sake of higher profits.