Florida inches closer to kneecapping rooftop solar.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/florida-inches-closer-to-kneecapping-rooftop-solar/ar-AATHWTa?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531Florida is inching closer to changing the state’s solar industry—and individual ownership of solar panels—for the worse.
A pair of bills, both heavily backed by utility interests, made big steps forward in the state legislature this week. What’s more, the utility has taken up blogging, of all things, to defend its honor. Stay kooky, Florida!
Despite the widespread public opposition and national attention on the bills’ shady ties to Florida Power and Light (FPL), one of the state’s most powerful utilities, both the Senate and House anti-solar bills are cruising through the legislature. Last week, a subcommittee granted the bill, HB 741, its first approval in the House. On Tuesday, as hundreds of pro-rooftop-solar protesters rallied against the bill in Tallahassee, the Senate version of the bill, SB 1024, passed its final subcommittee in a 6-3 party-line vote, clearing the way for a full vote.
Me: You see, they've tried this before, but it was always turned down (barely) because it was considered.........stupid IN THE SUNSHINE STATE! More......
Now, FPL is trying again—and they seem to be resorting to directly paying politicians this time around. In December, leaked emails jointly reported by the Miami Herald and Floodlight showed how FPL lobbyists met with a first-term state senator, Jennifer Bradley, directly drafted the text of an anti-net metering bill, and delivered it to Bradley’s office. Two days later, NextEra Energy, FPL’s parent company and the largest utility in the country, gave $10,000 to Bradley’s political committee. The matching House version of the bill, meanwhile, was introduced by Rep. Lawrence McClure, who has taken money from various sources with ties to FPL and NextEra Energy; he subsequently got a $10,000 donation from an organization with ties to that network, according to the Herald/Floodlight report.
Sorry, Florida DUers, but until you can convince others to vote those crooked, asshole republicans out of office, you're going to continue to pay some of the highest electric prices in the country, and remain the slaves to republican greed merchants.
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Glad to see you.
Sorry to see our American crap has floated up your way. 
using hydro-power. 
But republicans would probably demand a nuclear-powered plant.
There is a sort-of "spine" that runs down the center of the state that will be able to sustain the very wealthy Floridian's McMansions. It runs from 100-250 ft. above sea level, and will be immune from the initial coastal flooding. Everything from today's beaches to about 25 miles Island will be under water.
Republicans will ruin that too, just like everything else. 
they can poison the creeks and rivers too.
It's a win - win situation as far as they're concerned. 
I've never seen that Bugs Bunny episode before, or saw it so long ago that I'd forgotten it.
Only you could come up with something so obscure in the Comic department, JHB. 
