I look at things this way, the tried-and-true B.S. meter polygraph.
The true green-awareness individual audits their own personal carbon footprint. Until they actual do this and are willing to open source their honest size footprint to those that inquire, they need to keep their mouth shut about how others shall live.
This does not impugn people who have wealth and foolishly live a life of conspicuous consumption.
It is specifically about idiots who have no clue and demand that I, a person who consumes one-tenth the carbon they do, live according to their rules which does absolutely zero for helping the environment yet makes my life considerably more expensive.
Corruption Incorporated, the country to the south of you, encourages green living by making basic electrical costs extremely affordable. Basic power amounting to 125 kWh per month, costs about twelve dollars ninety cents. They are also extremely strict about insuring multiple service drops do not feed the same residence. A savvy tech comes out and audits the service drop when new service is ordered. If these guys have a price it is beyond reason to try and corrupt them.
Why doesn't YOUR STATE exempt solar panels or solar panels with batteries and inverter from state and local sales tax.....hmmmmm?
Why doesn't YOUR STATE offer drastically reduced purchase-price taxes and yearly license fees for inexpensive model sub compacts that get exceptionally good fuel economy.....hmmmmmm? One per household.
Why doesn't YOUR STATE offer tax-free privileges for sales of home insulation......hmmmmm? Why not offer professional installation companies substantial tax breaks?
This entire thread I have not demeaned electric automobiles. I have challenged their feasibility sans rational plans to make them the optimum choice for the way Californians drive and live. WHEN * ELECTRIC * CARS * ARE * MANDATED * BY * GOVERNMENT
My take on this closely parallels that of a one-time presidential aspirant who cloaks himself in a phony guise and by stated policy wishes to further damage an utterly basic lifestyle while he purchases beach mansions despite rising sea levels and had a mansion that consumes one thousand one hundred and eleven times as much power as I do...
MOONBEAM lives in a government mansion. But extreme pains are taken to HIDE the energy consumption of this structure. MOONBEAM rides in a limousine, and charters jets for travel.
It's not just him, we have an entire regiment of hypocritical legislators living in one of the most energy intensive environments known to mankind - Washington DC. Like I wrote earlier. Visit the offices of the environmental wackos. See office temperatures in the 70's with heaters going beneath the desk of secretaries to keep their legs warm when outside is a steam bath.
The wackos want to take away your RV. Pound it into your skull if you have to. They will legislate. They will tax owners into submission. And consume 30,000 kWh hours monthly that you pay for, every month.
The catch-phrase is "Drain The Swamp"
It should be "Drain The Inland Sea". The hypocrisy is sickening. And I exclude NO ONE in Washington and all 50 state capitols from this accusation. Federal Agencies, State and local government...it's like a preacher damning a congregation for not forking over more for the collection basket (so he can upgrade his vacation hotel room in Miami Beach).
When you see lips move on your idiot box and make noises how YOU are responsible for paying more for global warming and pollution, it is time to go in and audit that individual's life style.
Pollution. Yeah. Because MOONBEAM hasn't got a clue as to how to restructure the state PUC so to monitor utilities and prevent Burlingame, and the wine country fires. Enough pollution was created to overwhelm California efforts for the next 50 years.
I am done with this subject. Maybe in days to come I will get my appetite back. Hypocrisy sickens me. Hypocrisy that threatens my knife edge existence enrages me.
PTUI! I Quit this thread. Sorry.