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They are hugely expensive and they produce harmful waste. They really aren't all that much a source of clean power once you take into account that they produce waste that you can turn into a dirty bomb and that no one wants stored anywhere near them.
That's light rail and doesn't have anything really to do with high speed rail. And a lot of cities are already doing it, they have to, because there isn't enough room to build larger and larger highways nor the capacity to park all the cars. Denver's light rail is pretty in tact and we've been building in Houston and Seattle. It doesn't replace aircraft, it replaces car travel.
If you truly believe CO2 is the biggest threat to us and even threaten our existence, these are minor negatives. Nukes are the clear winner in terms of cost and scaleability. To then argue for removing existing ones is pretty Looney.
Actually it would be silly to propose transforming the economy without addressing the individuals that would be displaced. Especially considering the number of individuals that have been left behind by the transformation that has occurred the past 40 years or so.
If nukes are the clear winner why are there no investors? There was a brief renaissance a decade ago but the same old cost overruns and construction delays have doomed most all of those projects to the same fate of those in the late '70s and early '80s. Nuclear is rejected by a market that no longer concerns itself with growth but instead quarterly profits. Hm, sounds like another argument for that 70% marginal tax rate.
I made nothing personal. Gave good advice to a new person to read a thread. Nothing more, nothing less.
Incorrect. I admitted to answering his question (which actually was about the topic) and made nothing persona and I ask you to stop this nonsense now.
These points are all valid. But there’s also a lot you’re missing, and it has to do with political realities.
See if you have self control to stop responding and stop the awful shtick Joe asked you to stop before. Bet things would improve
This is ridiculous. Green energy is the next multi-trillion dollar industry. Leading in Green Energy is how America stays a dominant economic force. Stop trying to save buggy makers at the expense of auto makers.. Green energy already employs over a hundred thousand people it has more employees than coal it has more employees than oil and gas it's going to dwarf both of those Industries put together soon enough. This idea that oh my God we will lose some industry is ridiculous and you're just falling into the trap of the people who don't want to do anything because maybe that money would not go into their pockets.
You’re still not getting what I’m saying. You want to offer people new jobs in new industries? Great. But you had better do that before you take away their old industries.
Coal plants are already more expensive than solar, companies are shutting them down and not building new ones. Gas plants are next. That is private industry doing that. So the GND may include some tax breaks or R&D money but this is fiat accompli. This is the new field for those in those dying industries and it's a better fit than coding.
Gas is largely a byproduct of oil drilling. It will have a place for quite a while - at least until the train to Honolulu is completed.
Hmmmm. I wonder what the word 'if' means.....He is currently leading in all the polls despite the numerous examples.
Right now solar is overtaking the smaller gas generation plants that are used as supplements for when the grid has spikes in demand. Just like coal it is becoming economically unfeasible to build and maintain the more expensive option. Not quite there yet but as prices continue to fall it won't be that long before the just dont build new ones and they phase out the older ones. Trains not withstanding.
Just because Joe elects to run that doesn't mean he wins. Here's Joe's history as a presidential candidate. He's looking good pre announce and then the longer he campaigns the worse his numbers get. He has a lot of issues to overcome to get the nomination starting with his tendency to be a gaffe machine. Running is not the same as winning and it's a long time to the primaries.
Oh there will be an AOC-approved candidate and that person (who will be non white) will be one of the leading choices.
She pulled a Hillary': Critics mock AOC for 'affecting an accent' while speaking to a mostly black audience in NYC alongside Al Sharpton, while calling for 'reparations for Black Americans'
Just as a note right now in the Permian natural gas is at negative prices. Notwithstanding nuclear, the energy density of oil is impossible to beat. Therefore oil, and by corollary natural gas, aren't going anywhere soon. They will be in the energy mix for a long time.
AOC keeps hitting home runs. She can hit any pitch at any time. She is what America needs right now. She is a voice of sanity in the asylum of the insane.
Think about the mechanics of that. It would involve Venezuela levels of asset confiscation.
It doesn't have to. Policy could be put place that keeps it from being viable financially. But at some point the ability of this planet to support life is going to trump making money.
You know, you’ve written this sort of thing before. Despite my many disagreements with you I consider you a pretty smart guy, but these comments show a terrible lack of understanding of social change. It’s as if, when Obama came out against gay marriage in 2008, you had predicted that the gay marriage movement was officially dead. For all I know, maybe you did.
There’s nothing particularly special about it either though. She’s right that we shouldn’t disparage bartenders but we don’t need to glorify them.
For crying out loud, Tim. She isn't glorifying being a bartender, she is responding to her critics suggesting it is a lesser job, or something that she should have to apologize for. This is not analogous to Joe the Plumber, who was trotted out there to show that, contrary to the stereotype, there actually are average working people in the GOP (that isn't a case one has to make with Democrats).
FYI, I acknowledged gay marriage was going to win at the Supreme Court level years before it did. You see my comments as terrible, but there are many articles even from feminists who see the metoo movement as losing steam and dying. It jumped the shark with Kavanaugh and continues it's downward trend with the Fairfax situation and now possibly with Biden. The movement has too much partisanship in it. That has been the problem with feminism in the past, conservative women are not included.
What is the essence of the me too movement? That women are tired of being abused by men in positions of power, and are no longer willing to be silent about their experience. You really think this is going to die because some politicians are attempting to politicize it (according to you)? What does “die”’mean to you? That women who are abused will go back to accepting it without comment? Sorry but that’s just foolish.
Unless the Republicans come up with their own plan to deal with climate change (extremely unlikely to say the least) Trump is going to have a problem with this argument.
HellToupee said:
Republicans are making fun of the way AOC talks now? I'd hate to see the checklist you guys are using to demonize AOC in hopes of striking fear into all Republicans across the land. Some of you are truly showing how pathetic the views of the current GOP are. WOW! Sad. 
It's so Hillary....
