Energy Dependence
We could have sustainable and independent energy production.
If we didn’t exist under the thumb of corporations, we could have large scale, highly efficient, public transportation, including busses, light rails, subways. We could power them through town and city wide solar grids. Extra energy could be stored in centrally and peripherally located battery backups. Wind could be used when light is less frequent, such as during winter, with small farms outside city limits.
We could zone commercial and entertainment and housing districts together. Our cities could be more walkable, less reliant on personal ownership of vehicles.
We could have high speed rails built connecting major cities. There is precedent for these things. There are places that have done that, especially in Europe and in Asia. There is precedent even in the United States to lay train tracks nation wide. It brought us tremendous economic power on a global scale once.
They two could be powered through solar power.
We could basically be independent of cars and independent of oil as an energy source.
Batteries are increasingly cheap. Solar power and solar panels are increasingly cheap.
And oil isn’t exactly cheap. And the global market is dominated by a literal cartel.
We could pretty easily have emergency independence.
It would take a big infrastructure project. And what I really never get about push back to clean energy projects is this: don’t national scale federal and state investments in transformative infrastructure projects create a tremendous amount of jobs and robustly support the American economy? Isn’t it sort of a win-win?
But, we can’t have it because it would make the people who currently own everything own, still quite a lot, but slightly less. Some else would get to be richer and they certainly cannot have that. So, status quo must remain.
Massive oil usage. Really disgusting air. Smog. Dense traffic. Car accidents. Car insurance. Car repairs. Rental car madness. Busy highways. Stuff we all enjoy so so much.
Anyway, that’s what I’m thinking about. I’m frustrated now.
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