The question is what is most cost-effective at cutting emissions with a limited budget. I dont claim to known the right answer, but that’s how I would decide if it was up to me.

Talk with people you know. Let them know what is going on. Call your congressmember. Visit your congressmembers district office. Get people organized to turn out and turn out others during the midterms next year.

Yeah, GM was working with California in a fairly constructive way for several years. This is a major flip from that.

It’s a change from their recent position; they were one of the automakers which worked with California on an ICE phase-out starting 2019.

Yep. The idea has been to provide greenwashing services to major emitters

Otherwise unusable wind and solar exist seasonally in some places, and the same goes for geothermal in Iceland where climeworks operated.

This kind of thing makes sense as a research operation, not as a commercial endeavor right now.

You will be out of work and won’t be able to. Investor groups will buy them at auction instead

No insurer is going to take a large underwriting loss year after year

Every kid who dies of an untreated dental infection is one who couldn’t grow up to vote for Democrats

Nah. Its that of any large group, there is a risk somebody is bought off. So having a few more legislators more than the minimum protects you from that.

Or…the actual problem is that every single republican is opposed to doing things that help Americans, so with a 50/50 Senate, it took buying off only one Democrat to force stuff out

The actual path to good policy is more and better Democrats. Enough that the failings of one or three can’t sink legislation

Even there, Manchin was a major problem. Almost all the Democrats wanted stuff like an expanded child tax credit, but Manchin announced that if parents had money, they’d all go out and buy meth, so he insisted on its removal from the bill before he would vote for it.

It’s more that their constituents are exposed to a constant stream of propaganda which favors fossil fuels and the destruction they cause.

There is no real left-wing messaging machine that compares and can tell people about the harm they’re experiencing or the benefits of renewables.

It was far better than anything we got before in terms of environmental impact, even while not being enough:

The Republican effort to repeal it is (rightly) going to to be a real disaster, costing us not just a liveable future, but a lot of jobs in the near term.

BBB became the Inflation Reduction Act. Its what Manchin would vote for.

The most conservative Democrat is far more conservative than you or I.

For sure. But I’ll appreciate seeing it happen now instead of never

Unfortunately gumming up the Senate is about the only tool a minority has

They couldn’t during 2021-2022 when Democrats had 50 seats in the Senate plus the VP. You could pass what the most conservative Democrat was willing to vote for then, so long as it was a budget reconciliation bill.

A bribe is a bribe is a bribe, even if we can only see one of the quid and the quo.

There aren’t enough Democrats in the Senate to actually stop them. Just slow things down so much that the Republicans need to pick and choose which ones they care enough to push through.