In Lloyd’s excellent and balanced take on Elon Musk’s year, he points to a certain irony in the big Tesla Semi orders coming in from Pepsi and Budweiser. After all, we used to have local breweries and soda pop bottlers, until the interstate system ruined everything. So why not go back to what we once had?
It’s not an unfair or inaccurate argument. And I for one have been delighted by the growth in local breweries, especially when they deliver by tricycle. But I confess, in the age of Amazon, I have a hard time imagining us going back to a predominantly local economy—certainly doing so with the haste we need to stave off the worst effects of climate change.
