Could Electric Vehicle Owners Prevent a Future Donald Trump?

Source: http://ift.tt/hFWySe --- Monday, October 24, 2016
Photo: Tesla Owners Club of Australia The lack of a single question on climate change after four consecutive presidential debates is a painful reminder of how little political power climate hawks have really built. But while climate change is not a salient political issue clean energy is. According to polling conducted by Pew clean energy is a potential wedge issue with right leaning constituencies. That's because in places like California Republicans are 5 times more likely to own rooftop solar than their crunchy liberal friends. That's an important political opportunity in an increasingly polarized world. But more exciting than the ability to transcend the political divide is the opportunity to organize a politically potent constituency. With more than one million solar homeowners with 'skin in the game' when it comes to the clean energy transition we have the potential for something the left has never been able to build - the clean energy equivalent of the National Rifle Association (NRA). Take what happened with threats to rooftop solar in California for instance. When the California PUC considered changes to the net energy metering (NEM) policy that enables participation in the clean energy economy Solar City was quick to take action. The company sent email action alerts, much like an advocacy focused NGO might, to its customers asking them to tell the PUC to keep its hands off their solar. That simple act turned passive cons ...

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