Today’s post is simple. Why are we pointing fingers and yelling when what we should be doing is having fact driven debates? Our kids now have air conditioning in their classrooms even though we didn’t; I had a AA battery powered Gameboy while my kids play all sorts of games with headsets to talk to kids all over the world over the internet on a 70” screen; I stream Netflix (a lot); I order from Amazon; I store data on the cloud; And I need to recharge my phone and AirPods at least once a day.

At the same time, 40% of American’s don’t have $400 for an emergency expenditure and if you really want to make your blood boil – read about the Scott Tucker payday loan story (If you don’t like to read, Netflix has it as part 2 on their ‘Dirty Money’ series.)

Why do I juxtapose energy consumption and poverty?  Because cheap electricity helps bring the most at risk out of poverty and the least at risk don’t think twice about consumption.

But it is the CONSUMPTION of energy that is the reason energy is produced in the first place.  So if we want to have an honest chat, lets start there.

This week, starting with consumption and ending with production, hopefully we will have solved all the problems by Friday.

#hottakeoftheday