If Tesla's Freemont factory had been as automated as a Toshiba SSD factory it could have stayed open during the defacto injunction from CV. The contrast with China! Auto workers make more in Shanghi than in the US. The factory went up much quicker, it ramped up much quicker and it was down for much less time. Costs are better despite paying workers more.
Think of the irony of the whole of Alameda county being about the size of LA city and in that small space there are 6 damn gasoline refineries (1/3 of the state's refineries) that were kept running because of federal order even during a time of glut when those were making the respiratory issues that spread CV certainly worse or much worse but they instead close the most serious green energy producer (or reducer of dirty energy) and the state's largest manufacturing employer and work toward undermining their ability to be free of those refineries in the future- think the people of Alameda or neighboring areas like inhaling from those refineries or want them in their county or want them in CA? No (!) they want them gone and replaced with something that works. Granted, modern refineries may be pretty lean not needing many people to run. And of course glut or no glut there is still temporary need for gasoline in the state but they didn't or weren't' able to idle any of them or were afraid to raise the issue but presumably it made the fossil fuel situation worse with glut so that was a positive in a small way. And when one member of the US House did raise the issue a GOP senator inflated the size of employment (hostage taking) by the fossil fuel industry by 10x and wasn't called out on it even though the fossil fuel industry surely doesn't really care about the employees aside from making hostage claims or using them up and throwing them away.
But the decision to shut Tesla (even as it is an energy producer and a green one) what was that about? And the attempts to keep it closed even barring from today on from running in a limited capacity what is that about? The construction industry didn't stop ever but Tesla is somehow non essential- seems much more likely that Tesla is much more essential to the future of the planet and the state than any construction business in operation through the crisis. Was that bribed local politicians? Are they trying to lose the battle to save humanity for petty little local careerism or bought and paid for issues? What if Tesla was allowed to run up to now- would the dirty Big 3 be allowed to run- doubt it- should have shut them and told them to pay their workers full pay out of future stock dividends and buy backs and let Tesla run (for being green)- as it is Big 3 are being allowed to run starting Monday in Detroit and Tesla is shut. For context climate change is more important and still at least as pressing as CV even if CV comes back. And climate change and fossil fuel caused instability both political and economic is way more important. And even just on the economic (recognizing the political is always radically more important than the merely economic) we cannot afford anything other than getting rid of fossil fuels as fast as humanly possibly as they are bankrupting America and corrupting it to the point of breaking. My sense is allowing the cancer of the fossil fuel industry in the US to continue will mean it can't defend itself and not being rid of the corruption and economic damage caused by the fossil fuel industry and its products will prove terminal well before the effects of climate change.
Tesla should look at the sources of money for those Alameda politicians and then publish those sources incessantly if there are issues.
I don't believe the current CA admin is actually green- its more green washing than green. For instance Brown wasn't that green. When he went to Germany they heckled him as a green washer. He had for instance an a staff member that was tasked with doing something about fossil fuel fraud in the state but when that person started doing their job and making a difference Brown supposedly got rid of that person. And it was under Brown that the gas industry was able to use the Aliso Viejo scam to raise power rates- they gassed a community out of their homes for 6 months and were rewarded as usual by being able to raise rates substantially to the point that the whole thing looked manufactured and it keeps happening again and again and again on what looks to be a programmed schedule. But under the current CA Admin the former insurance commissioner's practice of causing insurers to have to disclose carbon exposures was discontinued (a massive fraud in itself because any insurer with fossil fuel investments or coverage is a fraud, a bad investment and not trust worthy as an insurer because its socializing losses and charging its customers more to do so- unacceptable and fraudulent.) Under the CA current admin PG&E was able to foist another rolling black out Enron style scam and so far been able to keep its fraudulent investors in the loop (despite also having many deaths related to fires it could have prevented) and hasn't had the real consequences that are needed and that would set the precedent of divesting to zero and ending their backwards useless rent seeking (where is the value added for these credit cards that can't be paid off where people in CA pay 3-4x per kwh what people with coops pay in rural communities and where the parasitic difference could have gone to for instances undergrounding lines to prevent fire but instead went to thieving ill gotten gain and rent seeking for the sake of extracting rents like unnecessary credit cards that can never be paid off- where is the social utility in that?) And of course the head of the current admin is supposedly a relative of the US Speaker of the House and that Speaker has opposed the GND and idiotically called it unrealistic- if anything the GND is way too slow. What a surprise. So we again have the counterfeit left the kind that allows hostage taking by the fossil fuel industry over jobs and the fake labor that undermines working people by being coopted by 'managements'- just cash these hourly people out at a million per position (all of it going to the worker) or whatever it takes but let get serious. And lets not forget that CA has been going backwards overall against the Trump admin despite the massive number of court victories it has had against the Trump admin- how is that possible? Why doesn't it use its power to still enforce against mercury in the face of the obvious absolute black faced corruption of the EPA by Trump's fossil fuels shills- why doesn't it go after the EPA head directly in public and not in the back room and in quiet court cases? It strikes me as trying to lose battles convincingly.
On climate change the survival of a free humanity is more important than the survival of any state. Tesla is tied to the US through SpaceX and defense- but surely it could look at moving its head quarters either to another state or out of the US. Maybe if Musk had time in a few years he could run for Governor of CA to turn it more properly green because right now its fake green. If it were green it never would have weakened net metering rules and it would be moving much much faster at riding itself of all fossil fuel production and use. It is still allowing fracking, incredibly it hasn't banned that permanently economically stranded garbage yet but is continuing to allow that bs to destroy water supplies accelerate earth quake fault lines. Brown was getting better at least with rhetoric on the way out the door. But note the last serious green by by CA got shot down by one little piggish legislator citing literally his careerism and his moronic know nothing moderate-ism in a self aggrandizing article about chess playing (or similar motif) as the reason- another Ajit Pai- how may lives did not passing that bill cost?
Is the US on balance right now a force for good in the world? How can it be if it continues to support fossil fuels? If you listen to the people on the right in power more often than not they speak against democracy. Listen closely. They are more and more talking in favor of imposed hereditary rule where cash replaces votes and people are demoted from citizens to helpless consumers same moronic idiocy W. blathered about when he would talk of the US as an Empire and not a Republic or when he was talking about raising the value of enslaving capital. Look at Ajit Pai of the FCC in the most contemptuous way imaginable, with utter seething contempt arguing to make censorship pay to serve a sponsor class. And the fake left is worse- just the puppets of the anti democratic elitist rule by inherited wealth crowd, but the fake left lies and says they are not what they clearly are and that makes them mere tools and extensions of the GOP, puppets of puppets.
Think of the irony of the whole of Alameda county being about the size of LA city and in that small space there are 6 damn gasoline refineries (1/3 of the state's refineries) that were kept running because of federal order even during a time of glut when those were making the respiratory issues that spread CV certainly worse or much worse but they instead close the most serious green energy producer (or reducer of dirty energy) and the state's largest manufacturing employer and work toward undermining their ability to be free of those refineries in the future- think the people of Alameda or neighboring areas like inhaling from those refineries or want them in their county or want them in CA? No (!) they want them gone and replaced with something that works. Granted, modern refineries may be pretty lean not needing many people to run. And of course glut or no glut there is still temporary need for gasoline in the state but they didn't or weren't' able to idle any of them or were afraid to raise the issue but presumably it made the fossil fuel situation worse with glut so that was a positive in a small way. And when one member of the US House did raise the issue a GOP senator inflated the size of employment (hostage taking) by the fossil fuel industry by 10x and wasn't called out on it even though the fossil fuel industry surely doesn't really care about the employees aside from making hostage claims or using them up and throwing them away.
But the decision to shut Tesla (even as it is an energy producer and a green one) what was that about? And the attempts to keep it closed even barring from today on from running in a limited capacity what is that about? The construction industry didn't stop ever but Tesla is somehow non essential- seems much more likely that Tesla is much more essential to the future of the planet and the state than any construction business in operation through the crisis. Was that bribed local politicians? Are they trying to lose the battle to save humanity for petty little local careerism or bought and paid for issues? What if Tesla was allowed to run up to now- would the dirty Big 3 be allowed to run- doubt it- should have shut them and told them to pay their workers full pay out of future stock dividends and buy backs and let Tesla run (for being green)- as it is Big 3 are being allowed to run starting Monday in Detroit and Tesla is shut. For context climate change is more important and still at least as pressing as CV even if CV comes back. And climate change and fossil fuel caused instability both political and economic is way more important. And even just on the economic (recognizing the political is always radically more important than the merely economic) we cannot afford anything other than getting rid of fossil fuels as fast as humanly possibly as they are bankrupting America and corrupting it to the point of breaking. My sense is allowing the cancer of the fossil fuel industry in the US to continue will mean it can't defend itself and not being rid of the corruption and economic damage caused by the fossil fuel industry and its products will prove terminal well before the effects of climate change.
Tesla should look at the sources of money for those Alameda politicians and then publish those sources incessantly if there are issues.
I don't believe the current CA admin is actually green- its more green washing than green. For instance Brown wasn't that green. When he went to Germany they heckled him as a green washer. He had for instance an a staff member that was tasked with doing something about fossil fuel fraud in the state but when that person started doing their job and making a difference Brown supposedly got rid of that person. And it was under Brown that the gas industry was able to use the Aliso Viejo scam to raise power rates- they gassed a community out of their homes for 6 months and were rewarded as usual by being able to raise rates substantially to the point that the whole thing looked manufactured and it keeps happening again and again and again on what looks to be a programmed schedule. But under the current CA Admin the former insurance commissioner's practice of causing insurers to have to disclose carbon exposures was discontinued (a massive fraud in itself because any insurer with fossil fuel investments or coverage is a fraud, a bad investment and not trust worthy as an insurer because its socializing losses and charging its customers more to do so- unacceptable and fraudulent.) Under the CA current admin PG&E was able to foist another rolling black out Enron style scam and so far been able to keep its fraudulent investors in the loop (despite also having many deaths related to fires it could have prevented) and hasn't had the real consequences that are needed and that would set the precedent of divesting to zero and ending their backwards useless rent seeking (where is the value added for these credit cards that can't be paid off where people in CA pay 3-4x per kwh what people with coops pay in rural communities and where the parasitic difference could have gone to for instances undergrounding lines to prevent fire but instead went to thieving ill gotten gain and rent seeking for the sake of extracting rents like unnecessary credit cards that can never be paid off- where is the social utility in that?) And of course the head of the current admin is supposedly a relative of the US Speaker of the House and that Speaker has opposed the GND and idiotically called it unrealistic- if anything the GND is way too slow. What a surprise. So we again have the counterfeit left the kind that allows hostage taking by the fossil fuel industry over jobs and the fake labor that undermines working people by being coopted by 'managements'- just cash these hourly people out at a million per position (all of it going to the worker) or whatever it takes but let get serious. And lets not forget that CA has been going backwards overall against the Trump admin despite the massive number of court victories it has had against the Trump admin- how is that possible? Why doesn't it use its power to still enforce against mercury in the face of the obvious absolute black faced corruption of the EPA by Trump's fossil fuels shills- why doesn't it go after the EPA head directly in public and not in the back room and in quiet court cases? It strikes me as trying to lose battles convincingly.
On climate change the survival of a free humanity is more important than the survival of any state. Tesla is tied to the US through SpaceX and defense- but surely it could look at moving its head quarters either to another state or out of the US. Maybe if Musk had time in a few years he could run for Governor of CA to turn it more properly green because right now its fake green. If it were green it never would have weakened net metering rules and it would be moving much much faster at riding itself of all fossil fuel production and use. It is still allowing fracking, incredibly it hasn't banned that permanently economically stranded garbage yet but is continuing to allow that bs to destroy water supplies accelerate earth quake fault lines. Brown was getting better at least with rhetoric on the way out the door. But note the last serious green by by CA got shot down by one little piggish legislator citing literally his careerism and his moronic know nothing moderate-ism in a self aggrandizing article about chess playing (or similar motif) as the reason- another Ajit Pai- how may lives did not passing that bill cost?
Is the US on balance right now a force for good in the world? How can it be if it continues to support fossil fuels? If you listen to the people on the right in power more often than not they speak against democracy. Listen closely. They are more and more talking in favor of imposed hereditary rule where cash replaces votes and people are demoted from citizens to helpless consumers same moronic idiocy W. blathered about when he would talk of the US as an Empire and not a Republic or when he was talking about raising the value of enslaving capital. Look at Ajit Pai of the FCC in the most contemptuous way imaginable, with utter seething contempt arguing to make censorship pay to serve a sponsor class. And the fake left is worse- just the puppets of the anti democratic elitist rule by inherited wealth crowd, but the fake left lies and says they are not what they clearly are and that makes them mere tools and extensions of the GOP, puppets of puppets.
