Who pays for the existing electric grid? Or petro infra? California has horrible fires, the gulf has terrible floods, etc due to climate change. We’re not pricing in the full cost of oil externalities because it comes in the form of emergency budgets and aid instead of monthly maintenance bills.

Beyond California, other states are modernizing their grids. Massachusetts is trying to build massive batteries to sustain themselves when in need (they don’t have any native source of energy), while generating supplemental carbon free energy.

It’s sustainable to maintain because it’s less problematic and more resilient and has less externalities. A California where everyone has solar and a battery is a place where the grid demands are smaller (because energy is produce where it’s needed, not transported). It’s a place resilient to crisis (weather, attack, failure, etc) again, because production is localized. Electric cars use more electricity of course, but you’ll save money by not maintaining any petro infrastructure. California can handle their electric cars just fine.

Also what’s up with this attack on some poor bush shitter? Getting paid to shit in a bush? I don’t know what that’s about but thankfully $600 a month is a lot smaller tax burden than most rural Americans who might complain about him are.