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It'll be interesting to see how the Republicans handle the economic shake up when solar energy becomes viable, because it's already cheaper than the grid in some places and is getting cheaper by the day
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I'd imagine they'll let the utilities handle that who will install it whenever or if ever it makes sense. Rather than push it unnecessarily early, resulting in high electricity prices for everyone except the more well-to-do who can take advantage of inefficient roof-top solar subsidies like net-metering.
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and when automation becomes viable like with self driving vehicles. So much for the trucking and taxi industries and all the assorted related industries.
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Given the painfully slow progress in this field, I doubt this will even show up even if Trump get's a second term. Google can hype their car but when you actually read their reports, you find their self-driving capability remains significantly worse than a human.
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If the economy goes in the tank (which is likely after seeing how the dow is and how England is after Brexit) then it will be all dumped squarely on the Republicans lap because everything was sunshine and roses under Obama with unemployment under 5%, the Dow over 18000 and 70+ consecutive months of private sector job growth.
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The FTSE100 is considerably up vs just before Brexit. Though the benefits of (juiced by central banks) high financial markets and growing economy (juiced by central banks) that hasn't actually hit many of his voters is a major reason they voted for him.