ExxonMobil and the Future of Energy
As shown here, ExxonMobil ostensibly wants to keep me up to date on the future of energy in my state, and suggests via the photograph, without the least bit of sincerity, that it may come in the form of algal fuels.
In truth, the future of energy in California is renewable energy and electric transportation, both phrases that are anathema to Exxon. Ironically, renewables and EVs will come into prominence only when we have successfully displaced Exxon by putting a price on carbon, most likely via the Carbon Fee and Dividend.
Holy cats! Those Republican Voters Against Trump mean biz, as my daughter likes to say.
Here’s another one in the category: “would be funny if it weren’t so tragic.”
I would call the photo here deceptive. The manufacturer of the “Greenline 48 Fly,” as it’s called, represent their product as “environmental boating. Yet it has two diesel engines that deliver a combined 440 horsepower. In full sun, that solar array will deliver about 0.5 horsepower, so about 0.1% of what’s required.
Further to our conversation on police violence, particularly against people of color, 
A friend from high school who now lives in China wrote an open letter to his old buddies, wondering how it’s possible that Americans are doing such a terrible job in complying with what public health officials are begging us to do. He writes: 
Here’s an exciting 
Yes, he’s prepping his base to start a civil war if he loses in November.
I have to admit that I’m extremely jealous of The New Yorker’s comic writer Andy Borowitz. How does he do this? Just look at what he wrote here.
The Energy Department has announced a new initiative that aims to boost the declining coal industry by making about $122 million available to discover new uses for the fossil fuel. 
