If Puerto Rico became a state instead of a territory, would this get any better? It’s shameful either way.
It seems like we screwed them over when they got wrecked by a hurricane a few years back. Surely if they were a state, we’d have spent more on disaster relief and especially building a modern electrical grid after theirs was wrecked.
Maybe our new unelected “prime minister” can do something useful with all his conflicts of interest and build out PR with solar based microgrids and battery storage
Puerto Rico has too little power at the best of times. At least there are no storms on the horizon
I think hurricane season is finally over.
My rule of thumb is Thanksgiving
They are trying to make it unlivable in order to empty the island for developers (just a theory)
Puerto Rico has been a key location for companies that want to build in the US but pay like it’s Mexico. The EPA doesn’t exercise the same oversight in territories like it does in states so the people and land are taken advantage of whenever it’s cheap. Here’s a fun short film from MST3k and it isn’t the only one. Puerto Rico has been abused by moneyed interests for a while now.
You don’t need to make up conspiracy theories about an island full of poor people that never gets enough federal funding and has shitty infrastructure.
And developers haven’t needed to make all the other beautiful places they’ve taken over unliveable. They don’t need to. They just wave enough money under the right people’s noses. This is America.
Just subsidize personal battery systems and lock the electric companies with no price increases for 5 years, or some variation of the above.
EcoFlow and others have made it very easy to have a personal grid backup that can charge off cheap solar panels.
subsidize
Good luck to convince the U.S. government to do that about anything. You’ve got less than a month.
Good luck to convince the U.S. government to do that about anything.
The Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund program went live almost two years ago and will provide solar panels and battery storage systems to low-income households in Puerto Rico with zero upfront costs.
The citizens of PR seemingly have better access to Solar and Battery subsidies than most people living in an actual State.
You have apparently forgotten who just got elected president.
PR could do it themselves. Most states already have energy efficiency rebate programs and sell discounted batteries. If PR can’t because they aren’t a state…well maybe they should change that.
I wholly support statehood if only to give them more representation and autonomy. I don’t care who they vote for.
Puerto Ricians don’t care about the island anymore. The dude they chose OKed calling it a pile of garbage in the ocean. Apparently, the limits of pride reach to just below voting for a woman and just above referring to your homeland as garbage.Disregard this. I was fucking wrong lol.
First of all, Puerto Rico can only symbolically vote for president because they don’t get electoral college votes. I’m not sure why you aren’t aware of that.
Secondly, that symbolic vote was overwhelmingly for Harris.
https://puertoricoreport.com/puerto-rico-election-results-2024/
Yeah. I was thinking of Cuban Americans, not Puerto Ricians.
Across the board, every Latino group voted for Harris except Cubans.
This was a fuckup on my part, and I will eat my crow now.
There will be a few extra Oct. 1 babies…
