Think globally. Act locally.

There is a company here in the Socialist People's Republic of San Diego that is building a solar-powered car.

I don’t want to sound too cynical, but are they really building a solar powered car? And selling it? Or are they just raising money? As they did before they shut down in 2011?

I ask that as a person who gave them money years ago as a deposit for the next big thing. Years later, after the American president began threatening Canada’s sovereignty, I withdrew my deposit.

My cynicism is not limited to Aptera or to a US company. I also paid a deposit for a Solo. It was supposed to be an electric, single-occupant car from a Canadian company. I had a deposit on a Tofino, another electric “wonder car”, a beautiful convertible sports car. Neither of these materialized.

Rather than dreaming what could be done, I think it is more important to be concentrating on doing today what can be done. I am happy to be driving a BEV powered by renewable electricity, driving a PHEV powered by renewable electricity, and putting more renewable-sourced electricity into the grid than I use, reducing the amount of horribly destructive electricity coming from Petacalco.

“Think globally. Act locally.”

The critical part of that mantra is to actually act now.