To be fair, Norway and those states rely heavily on hydro, which is great if you have the geography for it, but it’s not a route that can work for every region.

Excluding hydro renewable sources tend to cost more if you include storage currently, though that premium has been and is coming down.

That would be fine if this weren’t an international problem. If we split up then the new confederacy would be completely run by a few oil execs who would strip the regulatory state and start fracking and burning trash until their emissions rivaled the totality of the global south.

This isn’t even considering the minorities, women and LGBT people that we’d be abandoning to the fascists. Liberal America’s job is to drag the country kicking and screaming towards progress. We can’t abandon that duty because they’re kicking and screaming more now