We currently have batteries that can take really high tech stuff to the literal bottom of the ocean in unheated pressure vessels, run that stuff for hours to days, and then get it back to the surface. Seems to me most of the battery issues are solvable.
You are correct about the percentage of coal still burned in the US for electricity (https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3). And no, "Clean Coal" is nowhere near as successful at scrubbing the air as the power companies would like us to believe.
That said, scrubbing the air at a couple hundred power plants is still much easier, and likely to significantly reduce emissions, then scrubbing millions of tailpipes.
There are lots of ways to do it. A guaranteed minimum income, a reverse income tax, or a per-child parental subsidy would all help; some more efficiently than others. Expand medicaid in states that haven’t done so, put a cap on the maximum copay for medical care and prescription coverage, make SNAP (food stamps) more widely available. Provide more financial and practical support for caregivers of disabled family members. Provide free lunches in schools without means-testing. Give the poor a housing allowance, as an entitlement. Develop subsidized savings programs and make banking less expensive and more available. The list goes on and on.
The maddening irony of all these suggestions is they help "us" too in as much as they generate economic activity and growth. They don't pump money into stocks however, and since that's how the kleptocrats are "paid" for their "work" they aren't in the least bit interested.
so you don't think that continuing to honor this agreement might have any influence on current gas prices since it is a controlling agreement on crude oil?
I agree with some of that. We had no justification to fully invade Afghanistan or Iraq after 9/11. We did need to get the terrorists, but the twenty years and $1 Trillion we then wasted were useless. I've never understood attacking Yemen - again if we need to go after specific terrorists we have many ways to do that.
Yugoslavia was different - the entire UN interceded there, and given that its now separate nations I think the outcome might be better.
This is almost comically funny . . . . sad, ignorant, but funny. Russia had no justification to invade Ukraine. Not when it annexed Crimea, not when it went into the separatists provinces, and not now. Sovereign nations are just that. And Ukraine was sovereign when the tanks rolled. This is not negotiable in the modern world, especially where we want to foster democracy (or even the veneer of it).
I was not expecting this after your last polemic. Well written, well sourced. Well done.
Two questions:
1) While Hannity, Brett Baer, and the rest are not so openly carrying Putin's Water For Trump this time, are they really free of Hanlon's Razor violations?
2) Whither Joe Rogan - with his massive audience and his Jaybird like "Just asking questions" stchick?
Jeebus Jaybird you really can't give up trolling can you? Even Em - whom I hold I high esteem as both a well written critic of modern politics and a clear eyed policy thinker (I know nothing about her lawyering skills) - you are so desperate to troll us you even keep up the faux question asking about what some people might say over Em.
I don't know how to help you bro, but you are sliding down a really bad slope.
My theory is that “elite” is a designation that, in popular political rhetoric, refers to people who are cool and fashionable and hip, and can thus be assumed to look down on the uncool and unfashionable and unhip, rather than having much of anything to do with political or economic power, social connections, or even genuine accomplishment.
Notice how Donald Trump - whatever he's worth in actual dollars -is almost NEVER called Elite or Elitist.
I understand why Republicans would want to connect a long term goal that in the bizarro world of American politics is considered left wing to the pain of the current moment
As feeding
I’m all for hating on limousine liberals but since when is trying to plan for the long term a frivolous value
As ideology and thus tactically directive. One of the ways I see that tactic being played out by Republicans at the state level is when the good policy thing is resisted because
3. When it helps poor people, and specifically poor people of color.
You pushed back on that with
Number 3 is the kind of dumb thing limousine liberals say to make sure solidarity for solving a really hard problem is that much harder to achieve.
So I gave you another example of how this plays out when Republicans control legislatures. I'm commenting on means and methodology.
The Republican House Speaker in the Mississippi Legislature - just this week - reiterated his objection to federally funded Medicaid expansion in Mississippi (from Obamacare) because he doesn't want to find more ways to get people on Medicaid, he wants to find ways to get people working so they don't need Medicaid. He's conveniently ignoring studies that show Mississippi would get around 9,000 additional permanent jobs in the medical field (most of which would likely go to poor people) who would pay enough taxes to cover Mississippi's required 10% contribution to the Medicaid expansion.
He's intentionally shooting down long term economic growth because it requires giving government fund to poor people whom he believes are poor because of the morality of their economic choices. That's not limousine liberals blocking anything. And it is declaring that planning for and executing things with long term value are frivolous because of whom that planning benefits.
but since when is trying to plan for the long term a frivolous value?
1. When your party didn't advocate for it first.
2. When it impacts your biggest donors.
3. When it helps poor people, and specifically poor people of color.
I actually care a lot. I grew up in the oil patch; I still have close friends in the oil patch. I worked the federal response to Deep Water Horizon.
What I threw out above is just a summary level recapitulation of a lot of press on this issue over the last 6months to a year. And no, I don't agree with the administration for which I work on a lot of this, but I'm also not in charge of anything.
I have. My point is that moving is something that government can support. So is bringing new business and its concomitant training to local areas. You will notice, however, that WV, Mississippi, and many other semi-rural to rural states refuse to do this for renewables.
It seems Republican politicians like to do things the way Jaybird does:
For days, Republicans called for a ban on imports of Russian oil, a move that, while the right thing to do to counter Putin’s attack against Ukraine, would cause already high gas prices to rise even further. Biden did as Republicans wanted — and they responded by blaming his energy policies for spiking gas prices.
The CIA director said Putin premised his war on four false assumptions: he thought Ukraine was weak, he believed Europe was distracted and wouldn't mount a strong response, he thought Russia's economy was prepared to withstand sanctions, and that Russia's military had been modernized and would fight effectively.
And now Biden has ordered sanctions on Russian oil. Seems to me the three point plan is either a farce the Americans see through, or there's military and intelligence data suggesting more squeezing is necessary on Putin.
Mississippi doesn't offer early voting in the sense you are used to from Maryland (which I dearly miss). There is a window where you can vote "early" using and absentee ballot IF you meet one of 13 state law mandates excuses to do so. And are willing to swear to that excuse on a notorized form that accompanies your ballot. A good many southern states operate in a similar fashion.
My point isn’t that you can’t make a sound public policy case for unexcused VBM
Sure you can. Western states have done just that. Plus it seems - based on reported statistics - to mean more people vote. That by itself should be all the public policy grounds you need.
On “On Letting The Poors Eat Cake and Drive Electric Vehicles”
We currently have batteries that can take really high tech stuff to the literal bottom of the ocean in unheated pressure vessels, run that stuff for hours to days, and then get it back to the surface. Seems to me most of the battery issues are solvable.
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You are correct about the percentage of coal still burned in the US for electricity (https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3). And no, "Clean Coal" is nowhere near as successful at scrubbing the air as the power companies would like us to believe.
That said, scrubbing the air at a couple hundred power plants is still much easier, and likely to significantly reduce emissions, then scrubbing millions of tailpipes.
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The maddening irony of all these suggestions is they help "us" too in as much as they generate economic activity and growth. They don't pump money into stocks however, and since that's how the kleptocrats are "paid" for their "work" they aren't in the least bit interested.
On “Price Signals and Gas Prices: Biden is Lying, Badly”
so you don't think that continuing to honor this agreement might have any influence on current gas prices since it is a controlling agreement on crude oil?
On “Tucker Carlson, Russia, and Hanlon’s Razor”
I agree with some of that. We had no justification to fully invade Afghanistan or Iraq after 9/11. We did need to get the terrorists, but the twenty years and $1 Trillion we then wasted were useless. I've never understood attacking Yemen - again if we need to go after specific terrorists we have many ways to do that.
Yugoslavia was different - the entire UN interceded there, and given that its now separate nations I think the outcome might be better.
Nice try though.
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This is almost comically funny . . . . sad, ignorant, but funny. Russia had no justification to invade Ukraine. Not when it annexed Crimea, not when it went into the separatists provinces, and not now. Sovereign nations are just that. And Ukraine was sovereign when the tanks rolled. This is not negotiable in the modern world, especially where we want to foster democracy (or even the veneer of it).
On “Price Signals and Gas Prices: Biden is Lying, Badly”
Since I can't find any reporting that this has changed, how does this agreement impact current pricing?
On “Tucker Carlson, Russia, and Hanlon’s Razor”
I was not expecting this after your last polemic. Well written, well sourced. Well done.
Two questions:
1) While Hannity, Brett Baer, and the rest are not so openly carrying Putin's Water For Trump this time, are they really free of Hanlon's Razor violations?
2) Whither Joe Rogan - with his massive audience and his Jaybird like "Just asking questions" stchick?
On “On Letting The Poors Eat Cake and Drive Electric Vehicles”
Jeebus Jaybird you really can't give up trolling can you? Even Em - whom I hold I high esteem as both a well written critic of modern politics and a clear eyed policy thinker (I know nothing about her lawyering skills) - you are so desperate to troll us you even keep up the faux question asking about what some people might say over Em.
I don't know how to help you bro, but you are sliding down a really bad slope.
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Said none of the liberals here.
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Notice how Donald Trump - whatever he's worth in actual dollars -is almost NEVER called Elite or Elitist.
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I see it this way:
As feeding
As ideology and thus tactically directive. One of the ways I see that tactic being played out by Republicans at the state level is when the good policy thing is resisted because
You pushed back on that with
So I gave you another example of how this plays out when Republicans control legislatures. I'm commenting on means and methodology.
"
The Republican House Speaker in the Mississippi Legislature - just this week - reiterated his objection to federally funded Medicaid expansion in Mississippi (from Obamacare) because he doesn't want to find more ways to get people on Medicaid, he wants to find ways to get people working so they don't need Medicaid. He's conveniently ignoring studies that show Mississippi would get around 9,000 additional permanent jobs in the medical field (most of which would likely go to poor people) who would pay enough taxes to cover Mississippi's required 10% contribution to the Medicaid expansion.
He's intentionally shooting down long term economic growth because it requires giving government fund to poor people whom he believes are poor because of the morality of their economic choices. That's not limousine liberals blocking anything. And it is declaring that planning for and executing things with long term value are frivolous because of whom that planning benefits.
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1. When your party didn't advocate for it first.
2. When it impacts your biggest donors.
3. When it helps poor people, and specifically poor people of color.
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Agreed on your last paragraph.
On “Price Signals and Gas Prices: Biden is Lying, Badly”
I actually care a lot. I grew up in the oil patch; I still have close friends in the oil patch. I worked the federal response to Deep Water Horizon.
What I threw out above is just a summary level recapitulation of a lot of press on this issue over the last 6months to a year. And no, I don't agree with the administration for which I work on a lot of this, but I'm also not in charge of anything.
On “On Letting The Poors Eat Cake and Drive Electric Vehicles”
I have. My point is that moving is something that government can support. So is bringing new business and its concomitant training to local areas. You will notice, however, that WV, Mississippi, and many other semi-rural to rural states refuse to do this for renewables.
On “Price Signals and Gas Prices: Biden is Lying, Badly”
You will notice he doesn't care.
On “What Russian Officials Think of the Invasion of Ukraine”
It seems Republican politicians like to do things the way Jaybird does:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/09/biden-gas-prices-republicans-ukraine/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3648291%2F622a2ea79d2fda34e7c7ae02%2F59738e7cade4e21a848fe4b9%2F54%2F72%2F622a2ea79d2fda34e7c7ae02
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Agreed. And it keeps flowing - which is also good.
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https://www.npr.org/2022/03/08/1085155440/cia-director-putin-is-angry-and-frustrated-likely-to-double-down
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And now Biden has ordered sanctions on Russian oil. Seems to me the three point plan is either a farce the Americans see through, or there's military and intelligence data suggesting more squeezing is necessary on Putin.
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/08/1085089048/biden-ban-imports-russia-oil
On “Voting Via USPS”
Mississippi doesn't offer early voting in the sense you are used to from Maryland (which I dearly miss). There is a window where you can vote "early" using and absentee ballot IF you meet one of 13 state law mandates excuses to do so. And are willing to swear to that excuse on a notorized form that accompanies your ballot. A good many southern states operate in a similar fashion.
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Sure you can. Western states have done just that. Plus it seems - based on reported statistics - to mean more people vote. That by itself should be all the public policy grounds you need.
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Like this one?
https://newsroom.niu.edu/2020/10/13/how-hard-is-it-to-vote-in-your-state/