One of my favorite movies is Thank You for Smoking, the Jason Reitman’s film that looks at the world through the lens of a tobacco lobbyist. It’s fiction, though. This real-life Rolling Stone look at what is going on with rooftop solar in Florida and the big utilities has quotes that could have easily been in the movie.
Facing an amendment that would open up one of the sunniest states to solar power, the utilities created a competing amendment called “Rights of Electricity Consumers Regarding Solar Energy Choice,” which, as you might imagine, is extraordinarily unfriendly to anyone who wants solar panels on their home. Why the confusing title?
Bascom insisted there was no intention to mislead. “It would defy all logic,” she tells Rolling Stone. “Why would we confuse ours with one that does not have public support?”
Yes! I’ve desperately loved Thank You For Smoking ever since I first saw it. Christoper Buckley is a brilliant humorist, and I was delighted to have an opportunity to do one of his short stories in Speech and Debate back in college — “One of our whales is missing”.
Its one of my favourite too.
Aaron Eckhart’s come back in the end is like mind blowing. I have even watched it a couple of times when I was feeling down 🙂