My gf wants me to spend $40k on an electric car

[paulkienitz]

32. Solar is no fantasy.

Solar is now cheaper than fossil fuel and only getting cheaper. It doesn't need to occupy tons of land because it can and does go on land that's already in use, like rooftops and parking lots. Advanced cells have twice the power output of cheap ones, so they are far from done improving.

I have no sympathy whatever for PG&E. The whole company should be dismantled. Remember the Enron crisis? PG&E was complicit, made billions, and never faced any accountability for it. They split the company in two and declared bankruptcy for one half while pocketing those billions in the other, then successfully stuck the ratepayers with bailing out the first half. It may be the grossest misuse of bankruptcy court in history, and they set a world record in the amount they paid their lawyers to get that outcome. Come the revolution those sick fucks can share a guillotine with Peter Thiel and Marc Andreesen.