Mr. Epstein thinks that fossil fuels will lift the poor out of poverty and those without electricity will need cheap oil/gas/diesel to prosper.
Yet it's clear if he spent any time amongst the poor, they would prefer to own their power (like with a few #solar panels). 🧵
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Dear @KamalaHarris please explain how you will deal with the ongoing wars, in detail, to earn my vote.
Also explain what you would do if Americans Cities are experiencing riots, looting and fires?
With exact steps, in detail 🙏
@BrianGitt Isn't financially sustainable *when utility companies get to tip the scale away from competition and privately owned power generation...
FYP 🌞
The Covid pandemic was used to fundamentally change the relationship between US citizens and their government.
The government’s public health response was not a medical response, but instead a test of technocratic power: to see how the population would respond to totalitarian edicts masked as medical interventions.
The government also selected the lockdown winners and losers, transferring nearly 4 trillion dollars of wealth from the middle class & small business to Silicon Valley and big box stores.
There have been NO corrections and NO apologies--because the government wants to be able to do it again.
That is why we are hearing all the hoopla now about monkeypox and bird flu and yet more experimental vaccines.
We CANNOT let this happen again. We MUST resist.
The Biden/@KamalaHarris administration charging station plan delivered seven out of 500k promised stations and cost $7.5 billion.
In 2021, Biden/Harris set aside $65 billion for rural internet access (unclear how much if any progress we have made to date) when Starlink could do a better job with minimal taxpayer funding.
Now, @KamalaHarris promises to build 3 million housing units in four years.
How is that going to work?
cost of energy wont approach zero anytime soon. despite capex reducing for things like solar and batteries, cost to consumers is increasing. with high demand and low supply (because grid sucks) projected for the foreseeable future, and grid equipment shortages increasing costs further, costs will increase
To better understand part of the utility culture that’s often biased toward very costly solutions — creating bottlenecks to new generation & otherwise driving up rates — this is as instructive an example as any I’ve encountered. 1/8
Most people by now have renounced racial hatred, gender hatred, and class hatred, but political hatred is fair game. Think about that. This hatred is really a society-sponsored bigotry, and it is deranging our nation.
Our division is the most urgent issue of this election, not only because it damages the soul of our nation but it prevents us from effectively addressing all the other issues.
Folks on the left judge me for appreciating folks on the right. Folks on the right judge me for appreciating folks on the left. If there is such a thing as guilt by association, then consider me guilty. Let's all be guilty in this way. Let's appreciate those we disagree with, spend time with them, understand where they are coming from. The people on the "other side" are rarely horrible people.
The CPUC just approved $1 billion in ratepayer funds for PG&E to move its HQ from San Francisco to Oakland. $1B! To go across the bay. We need a reliable grid and solvent utilities, but this is wild. Why not shareholder funds? Talk about a cost shift. https://t.co/hz6iwAoPVO
To the absolute fullest possible extent of the word is it BEWILDERING to me how so many people are asleep to the fact that one of the greatest candidates of our lifetime, the only one talking about the real issues facing our country, Is not even going to be allowed in the debates
Preventative maintenance and upgrading early SAVES LIVES.
Just ask anyone from Paradise, CA.
Profits over safety isn't what public utilities should aspire toward.