I love Kamala, but I'M IN FOR GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE

[ancianita]

103. Know why green hasn't beaten fossil energy yet? First To Market. That's all you've proven.

Fossil fuel has been used since the late 1800's. It's had a 100-year start.

Solar panels got commercial over 100 years later, with photovoltaic storage not even around until 1999. For these major reasons, solar panels have only been on the market for the last 20 years. And fossil lobbies have paid off states to make personal solar use illegal. You need to see that there's a Green v Fossil war on in this country.

The U.S. stands 4th in the West in using solar. because unlike the countries ahead of us, we haven't committed to a national green infrastructure, and so it's fallen to individual states to set renewable energy goals with solar power.

With Wall St. estimates of 160,000 gas stations in the country, and retailers puming between 500,000 and 3 million gallons of motor fuels a year, you also have to admit that's a helluva head start.

There is no arguing what does or doesn't "work" for green energy. Your argument is wrong because it's too soon to fairly compare.

You absolutely cannot say that Jay's plans won't work when solar and wind -- thanks to cockblocking by the fossil industries, Exxon not the least of them, as we know -- have hardly scratched the surface of manufacturing, distribution, and installment!

You make an unfair set of claims, given this corporate and 'legal' bind that the gas industry has put the green industry in.

"Realistic"?? "Sacred cow"?? Climate change disasters we see are no longer "natural." We will never have 100-year events again. They are yearly.

Hurricanes, tornadoes in weird places, millions of miles of forest fires and flooding produce all the attendant death and destruction cascades of mud slides, river and aquifer pollution we suffer from -- right now -- from fossil fuel extraction.

You will have no safe place to live if we do not start a Climate Change Manhattan Project that should have started yesterday.

Costs alone to life and repair -- a city can only withstand a once-in-a-century disaster, not a once-in-a-decade disaster -- are far higher as we now live than if we invested in a major energy overhaul. Everyone knows it. This country mustmust muster the political will to commit funds to that overhaul.

Jay Inslee knows how to scale up his and other governors' efforts to make that work. He's got lots of governors support throughout this country. Most important to Jay's scalable plans, the solar industry recently overtook oil, gas and coal in the provision of employment.

One Trillion UPFRONT investment in green energy will prevent trillions in BACK END costs to human life and property that disasters have caused by fossil energy.

Climate scientists are in full on panic mode right now because of ho-hum attitudes I see both in the US government and out here on Main Street. Inslee will have more support from climate scientists than you can shake a stick at. Not to mention the high job creation that will bring millions back to the work place.

This isn't even my main source of up-to-date information, but it's one accessible link.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-how-much-climate-change-could-cost-the-u-s/