Fucking Whitehouse. So glad I don't live in RI anymore.

RI could be energy independent if it wanted to...between existing solar/wind infrastructure, RIRRC generation, legacy generation...and then keep investing into wind/tidal/solar.

Oh and hydraulic. You know the Blackstone River used to be disgusting and incredibly productive (as opposed to just the former). Massive mill systems along its shores. Kicked off the US side of the industrial revolution. Allowed the north to even be abolitionist in the first place (aside from, ya know, the whole Newport slave trade....but fuck Newport, damn island is nothing but welfare recipients living in mansions pissing on welfare recipients living in overpriced cottages tiny-homes, while all the shopkeepers live on the mainland, making bank off of the highly seasonal economy).

But MuH OcEAnFroNt ViEWZzz!

Oh suck it. Wind turbines are fucking cool. I'd rather have a dozen in my view of them than some lame flat endless ocean. Assuming I could ever afford to live some place with a view.

I guess it's kinda telling...the Industrial Revolution itself is whitewashed history. Last time around, it "ushered in the end of slavery" while giving capitalism big shot of steroids. Then machines in factories replaced laborers and craftsman, people were out of work, and the rich got exponentially richer as money concentrated at the top.

Fellas like Rockafellar and Ford and DuPont used their wealth and influence to get people to vote against their own interests. Not to mention the rise of fake news yellow journalism, and the Press Barons themselves.

If they would even vote...lots of attempts to suppress woman and minority votes, even when they were legally allowed to.

Then we join a world war and come out on top because most of the rest of the "industrialized" world was bombed to hell, while we were building up interstates and railways to feed the military. We joined at the end of the fourth quarter, jerked off around the Mediterranean, had a couple good fights, took all the credit, and started a cold war with the actual heroes.

Eventually the rest of the world northern hemisphere rebuilt, they're kicking our ass, and we are about to repeat the cycle.

Last time it took the Dust Bowl to really kick our asses into complacency. I hope next year's fertilizer shortages (and probably water shortages, at this rate, too) will compare?