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I'm surprised that Tesla is welcomed by Texas. They are, after all, reducing fossil fuels burnt with every car sold. I thought that supporting non-fossil energy
by quantified 2y ago
I'm surprised that Tesla is welcomed by Texas. They are, after all, reducing fossil fuels burnt with every car sold. I thought that supporting non-fossil energy was discouraged there.
- big-green-man 2y agoTexas is the largest wind producing state in the united States.
- quantified 2y ago[https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2022-09-09/texas-feels-ripple-effects-from-green-investment-ban/ https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2022-09-09/texas-feels-...]
- big-green-man 2y ago> The law is explicit: Companies that abstain from investing in fossil fuels for strictly financial reasons, rather than as an ethical or environmental position, are not banned. Seems perfectly reasonable to me. Pensions have a fiduciary duty to maximize payout to beneficiaries who have paid in. There's no room for your moral crusade when managing other people's money.
- giraffe_lady 2y agoI rarely see it cited as an explicit influence but a lot of the platform of the american right today aligns with ecofascism. The rhetoric around their focus on the border particularly, their reactionary image of a romanticized, pastoral/pioneering past america. For musk specifically, the pronatalism: after all they don't think that global birth rates are too low, just some birth rates.