Reply To: T-shirt designers unite and take over

[Brian H]

Aeronaut wrote: Michigan’s energy policy is closely aligned with Washington’s (sound like a puppet government?). We have a State mandate to produce a certain percentage from “renewable sources” which I believe is ambitious relative to most states and has bleak prospects without FF production absorbing the jobs and capital which I believe these programs were meant to create in solar, wind, and possibly the continental grid.

Further, I believe that attempting to pass legislation is putting the cart before the horse. When a million FFs are pre-sold- with or without confirmation by Big Science- enough political influence will appear “as if by magic” to grease the enabling regulatory legislation.

In graphic terms, who (that wants to get re-elected) could vote against giving his or her constituency a decided energy price advantage, fleeting as it may be with FF in full production by a horizontally and vertically integrated research, sales, service, and marketing company?

Prezakly. Or, flipping it about, who would vote to give his or her constituency a decided energy price disadvantage, which would be permanent and deadly as long as they persisted in their folly? :coolgrin:

As for the “integrated company”, that may or may not be the case in each locale; a number of firms that assemble, ship, and/or install components provided by competing sub-contractors might also do perfectly well