I had a katydid on the side of my house this morning.
Peak Rivian? 
Let’s go Fisker then! 
The new ford and gm battery plants are coming up in Tennessee/Kentucky instead of Michigan. There is big discussion in Michigan why those plants aren’t in Mi. Point is companies invest their money after looking at data which will help their businesses.
People nearby benefit out of it.
If the company executives only talked to their C suite skiing buddies based on great locations to ski or wake up to a great morning they would probably locate the factories in Aspen Colorado instead.
Let’s go longhorns!
Here are the country’s five least expensive states for running a business, according to the study:
- Texas
- Oklahoma
- Kentucky
- Nevada
- Georgia
Texas tops the list thanks to its tax policies and utilities costs. The state does tax businesses with annual revenues above $1,180,000 at a rate of 0.375%, but its corporate tax laws are considered to be among the friendliest to businesses in the country.
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The study also ranked the country’s five most expensive states for running a business:
- California
- New Jersey
- Vermont
- District of Columbia
- Iowa
California workers have the nation’s ninth-highest average annual wage, at $47,290 per year. The state also easily has the country’s highest electricity prices, averaging 17.7 cents per kilowatt hour.
A February study by the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business found that customers of Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), California’s largest utility, pay nearly 80% more per kilowatt-hour than the national average, due to both wildfire-related costs and fixed costs associated with the state’s energy efficiency programs.
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This is exactly the reason why California has become a laughing stock in the nation. California’s efficiency program make electricity expensive - isn’t efficiency about making things cheaper.
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The states like CA and NY imposing their woke values (I call it California complex, a mental misunderstanding).
From the Article above, the wokeness in media continues when refering to TX against CA/NY.
Some of those same companies have faced criticism for moving operations to the state, in the wake of multiple controversial political decisions by Texas lawmakers — including the state’s new restrictive voting laws, a law effectively banning abortions and bans on Covid vaccine and mask mandates.
GDP per capita
New York: $90,043
California: $80,563
Texas: $66,149
All that GDP and what does the state have to show for it?
- One of the highest poverty rates of any state
- One of the worst ginni coefficients
- Some of the worst schools with only 34% of students testing proficient in math
I’m sure all those undocumented and documented gardeners and landscape guys were dying to upgrade to electric. Go green right?
An economy driven by high value-add IP creation will by definition have higher inequality. Not that many people have the intelligence required to get into the CS programs at top-flight schools like Stanford, and then work at Google or Facebook. But almost everybody can graduate from high school and land a job making cars at a Tesla plant.
Once some one is able to get his hands around, it will take generations to fix California and to reverse what is being undone (assuming CA will remain salvageable).
So the new mantra is : California is of the IP people, by the IP people, for the IP people.
Soon Californians will be paid for staying i.e. not going to Texas.
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Lol😁
Don’t know about schools but there’s not a huge difference between CA and TX on poverty and gini. Correct if I’m wrong.
Or, you will be needing an exit visa to leave California, just like some communist countries had for inter-regional movements.