Editor:
The incoming president will forget he thought that wind-generated energy causes cancer when Humboldt’s offshore wind supporters dangle this golden opportunity in front of him: free yacht moorings for oligarchs! (Daily, Nov. 7.)
Trump loathed electric vehicles until EV-lovin’ oligarch Elon Musk ($315 billion) befriended his presidency. Given that, Trump won’t be able to resist Humboldt’s wind development when it’s designed to benefit his super-wealthy advisors. It only takes the promise of re-purposing the harbor. Oligarch yacht parking can easily be accommodated after the harbor finishes its big build-out for shipping and manufacturing wind-related parts. A yacht big as a turbine blade? No problem.
The first mooring reservations will be for his cabinet members. In addition to Musk, Betsy DeVos, Education ($2 billion), Doug Burgum, Interior ($1 billion), Howard Lutnick, Commerce ($1.5 billion), and Linda McMahon, Small Business ($2 billion) will all be validated for free parking. Rob Arkley is on the waiting list. If they don’t already have yachts, they will. Extra yacht parking can also be available on a sliding scale for Trump’s new friends in Russia’s oligarchy. Catering opportunities for mountains of fast food and all the cleaning services Eureka can imagine will trickle down to the rest of us, with plenty of electricity to fuel AI for the immortal Trump hologram.
J.A. Savage, Eureka
This article appears in Flash Fiction 2024.