But to celebrate the retrograde triumphs over the train and Tesla, the state has dumped billions into instantly obsolete freeway upgrades which do not come with electric charging stations.
The biggest turn back to the 19th century has come with the murder of Ohio's green energy program. With great effort and almost total bi-partisan unity, Ohio in 2008 adopted a wide-ranging program to encourage the development of wind and solar within the state.
Northern Ohio is especially good for large-scale wind farms. The lake breezes are strong, the region is flat and the sites are in ag land close to big urban areas where rates are high.
Billions of dollars poised for willing communities like Leipzic promised jobs and business.
Likewise solar facilities proposed for southern Ohio bore great promise.
But while Germany, California and other post-industrial competitors surge ahead into a green-powered world, Ohio has gone in reverse.
With absolutely no possible health, safety or ecological reason, Kasich slipped into law a restriction on turbine tower siting that renders the future of wind power in Ohio virtually nil, costing billions in investment and countless jobs. The destabilization of tax, subsidy and regulatory programs has done the same to large-scale solar projects, one of which has already been cancelled south of Columbus.
Overall, a corporate-owned regime has relegated Ohio to pre-green museum status. No region dependent on fossil and nuclear fuels can look forward to any kind of reliable, long-term transition into the 21st century global economy.
Solar, wind, electric cars, passenger rail service and the other high-tech industries are the future of post-industrial prosperity. They're at the core of a green-powered revolution in energy supply that is redefining how the world does business.
Just not in Ohio.
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