Democrats back on the hunt for the elusive "center voter" I see. They will fail just as they have failed before going after "center voters"
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Yes. Oil bad. But oil also necessary part of daily life for time being.
Planning for a future without oil is important, but that future isn't here and the doubling of fuel prices is hurting people who were already struggling. People who can't afford to buy a new electric car, and without a house can't affordably charge one anyway. People without public transit from their home to work. People who have to buy groceries, which are massively more expensive than just a few months ago.
Solar is great, but doesn't do shit for renters who can't take advantage of it, and landlords don't put it on rental units because it doesn't save them a dime.
I don't disagree with anything you said but the future may be here sooner than we think, solar has become quite popular for renters in Germany and New York recently passed a law allowing it too.
The reality of green energy is that it's difficult to lead on this at a state level, not impossible, but structurally limited.
Red states have actually succeeded with wind power, largely because it's become the cheapest option on the market, even when state-level subsidies got rolled back. But for a truly effective transition, the heavy lifting has to happen at the federal level, and that's just not coming from this administration.
So we'll still see growth,the economics guarantee that now, but we'll fall far short of what we could achieve with actual federal support. The market is dragging us forward despite the politics, not because of it. That's the frustrating reality, but it also means the underlying momentum is already stronger than the people in charge.
Ultimately the only way to reduce emissions enough is for gas prices to be very high, but I can see how supporting high prices would be really unpopular politically
Won’t happen in California Newsome and Becerra are owned by PG&E
And Matt Mahan the mayor of San Jose, in case he wants to show his face again after such a loss. I'm not sure how much PG&E is bribing him with but enough to have an electric bill close to 3x the cost of the city of Santa Clara (next door) to bring in AI data centers to San Jose. Fuck him. He also has some photo op posing with ICE cameras as in San Jose thinking it was a good look (flock).
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