brenthutch

Coal plants have an average lifespan of 40 years, there is noting short-sighted about their decision making.

Alarmists' Better?

Stages of Alarmists' denial. It all starts with, "OMG! In the next few years we will be beset by a plague of floods, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, melted ice caps, pestilence and dead polar bears." A few DECADES go by and someone points out that none of that has come to pass. Stage One: "No one ever said that" Someone provides examples. Stage Two: "Those are just politicians and actors, not climate scientists" Examples of climate scientists are given Stage Three: "Well, that is just one or two" More examples are provided Stage Four: "OK fine! It's not that they were wrong, their timing was just off, just wait and see, according to the experts, disaster is just right around the corner" Date given.... i.e. in 12 years....wait 12 years and repeat the process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU_gNakm9ms Now we only have ten years and change before the world ends.

Wow! The Japanese and Chinese are not just looking into it they are going full bore, spending BILLIONS. "Japan's three leading banks were the top lenders to companies involved in coal-fired power projects, according to a report by nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations including BankTrack. Mizuho Financial Group, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group are thought to have provided $39.3 billion in loans to the sector between 2017 and the third quarter of 2019. The report also showed that Chinese financial institutions -- Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Ping An Insurance Group and CITIC -- were the top three underwriters for coal developers." https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/Commodities/Asia-s-appetite-for-coal-grows-with-China-the-key-decider

With cheap reliable power?

Australia is now investing millions to look into additional coal fired power. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-08/australia-to-fund-study-into-new-coal-fired-power-station

Do you mean the one that says "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed?

There is talk of 2nd Amendment sanctuary cities in VA now

Defiantly an old guy from NYC, B, B or T.

The very cages built by the Obama administration https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/ice-and-border-patrol-abuses/border-patrol-was-monstrous-under-obama-imagine

She is a heart attack and a car wreck away from the Oval Office.

Actually Trump net worth has plummeted https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/02/trump-forbes-400-spot-tumbles-as-net-worth-declines.html While the Clintons and Obamas made millions. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/net-worths-of-presidents/ That is not to say that Trump isn't trying to make money off of his time as president, he is just very bad at it.

Bill Clinton paved that road

Not only productive farmland, but productive Amish farmland. Farmer McNasty will never get mad at you for a reserve handle f**king up his million dollar combine.

Because we are gracious capitalists and willingly contribute back to the community.

There is no topic that cannot devolve quickly into a SC only category

Joe, when you give more than you take, you are NOT being subsidized. You are the subsidizer.

They would still be around if only they had instated a comet tax

Let me tighten up your analogy a bit. You own a facility you built a half a century ago. It has several unrented spaces as nobody is interested in renting your old decrepit facility. Along comes some guys and they are not only going to pay you much more than you could ever hope to get, they are going to fix it up (on their own dime). They will create a demand for maintenance which brings in another business to your facility and that draws even more interest. I agree someone is being subsidized, but it is the airport authority not SDHV. Just ask them, when Bill (the owner) broke his leg on the last jump of the season, he contemplated closing. He was lobbied by the airport authority, the county, and the local businesses to remain open. I ask you, just who is subsidizing who?

Yet it never does

It's funny how disaster is always just right around the corner, yet never quite seems to arrive.

The airport has been there since 1964 (a great year I might add) and the grass has been mowed every year since. We started operations about 15 years ago and have added no additional burden on the airport authority. We rented unused hanger space, we rented unused office space (we even tore out the wood paneling and put in drywall) we rented out unused space for our packing, video editing and rigging space. We have cost the airport zero and have contributed tens of thousands. As far as ATC, I think they were here before we started as well. When a grant was given to upgrade facilities, we did not qualify as we were a business, (and it would be socialist to give a business government money) the T hangers that were rented out to private owners got cement floors, we got nothing. (BTW we buy more avgas than all of the other private pilots COMBINED) We are currently updating our website but go to skydivehappyvalley.com and check out the video visit (I'm the knucklehead using the hand-cam)

The population we have right now is doing fine. Global poverty rate plummeting and life expectancy rising.

Bees are very cool. My first substantial encounter with bees came in my freshman year at a branch campus of Penn State (Mont Alto). There was a small panic as there was a swarm of bees in front of an office/snack bar/hang out building. They were thousands of them, piled inches deep on a big oak. One of the forestry majors showed up with a smoker and a cardboard box, he lived off campus and had an empty beehive. He grabbed some leaves, stuffed them into his smoker, lit them and charged headlong into this mass of bees. Everyone thought he was crazy. He held the box below the swarm with one hand and was pumping the smoker with the other. He was covered in bees yet was not getting stung. He was frustrated because he needed a third hand and shouted "can anybody please help me?" He obviously knew what he was doing so I volunteered to help. He directed me to hold the box against the tree and proceeded to scoop large chunks of bees into the box. Bees were swarming all around me and I could not see my arms from my elbows down as they were covered in bees. All of a sudden he took the box from me and started to walk away (he saw the queen go in the box and knew the rest of the swarm would follow) As he walked away, I said, covered in bees, "a little help please" he looked over his shoulder and said just jump up and down. It worked. I met up with him later and got an education on bees