Notice how Buffet is in fossil fuels and in insurance and some token green stuff? Remember what happened with NRG and Nevada and roof top solar? What is the connection? The monies that go to inflated, mortgages, inflated insurance premiums and inflated health care all have funds that through a system of kick backs and economic royalist appointments constantly bail out the ever failing fossil fuel industry helping to socialize its endless losses even beyond its constant bailout wars. Its always been the case that about 1/3 of the tax haul went to buying demand or corporate welfare just to keep societies glued together but the fossil fuel industry because of the physics of low aggregate economic efficiency has an endless inherent cumulative multiplier effect that literally drives scarcity and waste. That makes it ideals as part of an agenda to keep people working too many useless hours doing unneeded busywork to be informed enough to do anything about their plights- it comes down to simple time theft and busy work exercises to literally exhaust and dumb down a population. But Tesla insurance will actually pass on savings instead of socializing fossil fuel losses giving the lie to that fraud and auto pilot will eliminate a whole pile of graft money for the ultimate loser fossil fuel industry. So they pay capture media to lie until its blue in the face, they pay for censorship inducing rights killing media, consolidated as it is to lie about Tesla and lie about climate change. And full self driving auto pilot will keep a lot of vehicles off the road regardless of fuel source- fossil fuel industry wants people to believe its always 20 years off, because its a driver of electrics like nothing else. But we can't afford to have the fossil fuel industry any longer and we can't afford to have the people who benefit from the fossil fuel industry to get any more money or retain any more power- that is the honest conclusion the world has come to. How many more genocidal wars in the face of nuclear weapons could we for instance 'afford' due to fossil fuel caused agitation and instability? Even if there were no warming we'd have to and would have every right to put an immediate end to the fossil fuel industry with retributive rights as well. Surely the industry knows the prosecutions will begin as soon as it power wanes enough so it fight with all it has. Think of Haley Barbor saying we can't afford green- we can't afford her and that kind of ultimate stupidity. Yep paid to lie media righteously doing what it thinks it has every right to do, get paid for telling lies that really hurt people in the service of oppression. These people like to think of themselves as realists and think there is no alternative to this system of corruption but there is. Imagine a USA that had out grown business and money grubbing- think of how many lives are wasted in being spent over useless money grubbing. I am thinking of Consumer Reports newest bit of tripe on Auto Pilot and what the apparent obvious motives seem to be. I strongly believe that taking money and profiting from lying to the public about the public interest is a criminal offense pure and simple (obviously) and the law needs to formally recognized it as such (law claims exclusive franchise in determining what is criminal) because democratic governance and systems of power sharing depend on it. Lying to the public for money should be a hard felony with minimum mandatory sentences and huge fines. That sounds like a free speech chiller but so is making censorship and misinformation profitable. I also believe the same about the government, if it can be shown the USG lied or tried to cover something up the civil servants involved should face the same- time to scrap the national security claims they always hide behind, security is in full transparency only. It looks like Tesla will succeed in China and that means it will succeed permanently. The US will get left behind if it thinks it can legislate out this life saving existential technologies. Poetic justice!
While we're at it. Media needs to cover elections for free as it was required to under the fairness doctrine which recognized under the free speech doctrine that commercial speech was last in line to protect political speech. So just as with the fairness doctrine and laws media needs to cover election for free as part of keeping its charter and access to the free speech public which the public owns outright. The property interests of share holders in these area are less than nothing, literally less than nothing as a comparative interest. Media firms need to have their charters pulled when they engage in paid lying. This is not a free speech chiller this is a pre-condition of having free speech. Media firms must not take money for political ads, we don't want a money filter on speech or a capture of speech by money- political ads can go on bill boards generally out of sight. We also don't want modal add systems or privatized systems of attention enclosure. We don't want rent seeking on speech. This is very much like electric power. Just as we don't want these petty little non competing rent seeker utilities that try to levy a private tax on captured localities- we need to nationalize the utilities and the grid or at least go to non profit or not for profit coops that can only be owned by the citizens in the areas were the power is provided. Its very much the same with speech. Speech capture cannot be allowed because then we end up with captured law or law as money or law as crime. Literally under sponsored media we end up not just with compromised puppets but pre-screened puppets and with the people behind them having total idiot political philosophies along the lines of power corrupts absolutely. Our speech systems should include a bias against monied interests in protection of political speech. The wealth and concentrated wealth must be at a political disadvantage as a condition of creating political balance- the stewards of collective or public wealth arguments tend to be spurious and certainly not applicable to speech even to the point of discouraging wealth.
