This is a long time overdue. Balcony solar is a no brainer win for residents. Newsom capitulated to utilities most of his tenure sadly.

Bruh - you do understand almost all technology is prohibitively expensive when it’s new and becomes cheaper with investments in development and manufacturing improvements. That only happens with investments in that development. Visible endorsements like the president pushing for adoption make people invest more in these technologies. Not sure why you are so against this $28,000 project. The government wastes astronomically more on technologies that never become viable every year. Trump is literally canceling paid for wind projects and just giving contractors the money because oil lobbyists funded his campaign. The government wasted more on drill baby drill propaganda than this small project ever cost tax payers.

Oh yes, that minuscule expenditure to encourage adoption was so wasteful. Our government has spent enough to cover the entire country over with solar panels in their misguided foreign wars, subsidies, and a million other wasteful expenditures for the oil industry.

It’s billionaire money - that’s the heart of it all. Everything can be traced back to billionaire financing. The Republican Party was just the easiest vehicle to power to corrupt. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/master-plan/id1723377799

It was a strong symbolic move though. Had America pushed harder on renewables we’d all be paying a lot less for energy now and we likely wouldn’t have pushed into the middle east at the behest of oil profiteers. Not to mention the climate outcomes. Reagan was strongly pushed by the oil lobby.

Reagan was part of a concerted effort by the mega rich to destroy anti-corruption efforts and put power in the hands of a unitary executive more akin to a dictator. Oligarchs love strong centralized power because it’s easier to corrupt.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/master-plan/id1723377799

He definitely takes the term petty to its apex. It’s gotta be exhausting to live with such a fragile ego.

You started the energy crisis because you’re dumb enough to let Benny flatter you into a war. Not Ukraine’s fault.

So they pulled a reverse Ed Sheeran.

That’s what powerful people do, they steal from everybody else. They’re parasites. Always have been. For some reason, we rarely just pinch the head off the tick.

Highly recommend reading this book for more details on American interference in sovereign nations to protect corporate interests: https://ia600507.us.archive.org/0/items/ConfessionsOfAnEconomicHitman_257/JohnPerkins-ConfessionsOfAnEconomicHitman.pdf

Don’t forget, Iran was a democratic nation in the early 1950s until America fucked it up for corporate profits. We created the conditions that brought about the Iran regime to capitulate to corporate interests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état