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from the stick-it-where-the-sun-don't-shine dept.
CleanTechnica has written a series of articles about the deceptive wording on Florida's Amendment 1, which is meant to slow the Sunshine State's rooftop solar growth and even penalize it — despite language that initially makes it look like a pro-solar amendment. A new press release from the US Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) reveals that Florida voters are waking up to the deception, but that the big utilities are playing hardball now to keep it up, pumping millions of dollars more into misleading ads before election day.
Fortunately, all of the press (and Elon Musk tweeting) about Amendment 1 have made many voters aware that it is a proposal to benefit utility monopolies like Florida Power & Light, not the people of Florida. But Florida's utilities aren't willing to give up. In fact, they are showing how valuable they consider this anti-solar legislation to be, pouring $3.5 million more into misleading advertisements in the closing days before all ballots are cast. SEIA writes:
"Polls conducted this past week indicate a sharp momentum shift on the anti-solar Amendment 1 ballot initiative in Florida. As public backlash mounts, the electric utility interests funding the deceptively worded amendment have doubled down, reportedly spending another $3.5 million to continue to deceive Floridians."
Lying at such low elevation, Floridians should have particular interest in not contributing to the higher global mean temperatures that drive higher sea levels.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday November 08 2016, @10:11PM
Both are corrupt. But there is a difference. Republicans embraced the anti-science, anti-education, and anti-fact crowd. They want to instill propaganda in our children, and call that education. Democrats aren't above lying and denial-- their stance on intellectual property law and love affair with Hollywood comes to mind-- but I have yet to see them embrace ignorance the way Republicans have. Republicans haven't yet dared to openly say they want to turn the nation towards barbarism, turn life back into nothing more than the savage and dead simple endless contest for food and mates, but many of them would like that. Look at the recent history of Cambodia for an example of how that turned out, when the Khmer Rouge was in power. They killed people for being smart. If you wore glasses, that meant you might be smart, and they'd kill you for it. Republicans still try to pretend there is rational thought behind their opinions and stances, but nominating Trump is the closest they've come yet to removing the mask.
Republicans love, love, love one part of the government they so profess to hate: the military. And of course they love guns and police. What is the purpose of having such an enormous military? If it's jobs, why can't we employ all those soldiers more usefully, by, for instance, fixing our highways? Even to them it's obvious enemies of the kind that Climate Change is can't be defeated with a few bullets and bombs. So they engage in denialism about that. But a large military is useful for competing with rival groups of humans for land, resources, and mates. Republicans are real obnoxious and entirely too sure of victory, seem to think it will be no problem to beat up a bunch of Muslim terrorists if only the namby-pamby peacenik spoilsport Democrats can be shoved out of the way.