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I sent in my FL mail ballot a couple weeks ago and this amendment was on there. After first skimming it, I was about to just quickly vote YES, but something was
by socialist_coder 10y ago
I sent in my FL mail ballot a couple weeks ago and this amendment was on there. After first skimming it, I was about to just quickly vote YES, but something wasn't sitting right. It seemed very fishy - it was trying to support solar, but the wording was super weird, like they were trying to trick me. The problems they were saying it would solve just didn't seem realistic. A quick google search revealed who was bankrolling the amendment, which confirmed my suspicions. Fuck this thing.
I wish they had some kind of "follow the money" thing included in the ballot. Like, no matter how many wrongly named shell companies you go through, the actual source of the money should be right there on the ballot so voters know who is truly driving these amendments.
Super tricky though, it won't surprise me at all if this thing passes. This is yet another case where the average human is just not intelligent enough to keep up with the marketing strategies of the most intelligent.
- tropo 10y agoThey were trying to trick you, which is shady, but that doesn't make the result bad. Without this, we're headed to a huge bailout. In the long term, net metering will force power companies into hopeless bankruptcy. Hawaii has already approached this, stopped only by a state-wide moratorium on new installs.