I think it's funny that the same people who will mock us with "no true socialism/communism" are the same people who will blame all our problems on "crony capitalism"...
the heat of the desert is way outside of their operating range.
I live in the Phoenix area, there are tons of solar installations here. In fact my house has solar, had it when we bought it 10 years ago, and it cuts the power bill in half.
I'm sorry, but citing "real life therapists" is very weak indeed. They're trained professionals, sure, but that doesn't mean they have any better grasp of research methodology or statistics than anyone else.
I excelled at taking tests. One of my particularly exceptional (now useless) abilities was to deduce the answer to one question based on the wording of another question.
You're still ignoring the argument that a hybrid doesn't have a typical vehicle alternator, it has a charging system that's whole job is to generate electricity from the engine, and do that efficiently and reliably, and it has an electric a/c compressor.
How does a farmer find his cows?
Irresistible!