Phil1111

Yah beat me to it. Hurricane after hurricane, freeze after freeze flood after: "Hurricane Harvey offers the clearest lesson why Congress should not perpetuate the federal National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which expires at the end of September. The ravages in Houston and elsewhere would be far less if the federal government had not offered massively subsidized flood insurance in high-risk, environmentally perilous locales. But this is the same folly that the feds have perpetuated for almost 50 years. Two years before NFIP was created, the 1966 Presidential Task Force on Federal Flood Control Policy warned that a badly run program “could exacerbate the whole problem of flood losses. For the federal government to subsidize low premium disaster insurance ... would be to invite economic waste of great magnitude.” That sage advice was ignored." 'A recent Pew Charitable Trust study revealed that 1% of the 5 million properties insured have produced almost a third of the damage claims and half the debt." of $25 billion.

Why not pick something real, fact based, with meat on the bones of the issue? Gov. Andrew Cuomo appears to have covered up covid nursing home deaths. Yet its as if the right has to wait for FOX to tell them how to think before they can utter opinions.Usually always wrong.

That entire editorial is a series of right wing self serving b.s. statements Its John Kerry's fault that the Iran-US-Russia-EU deal was negotiated the way it was? Are you fucking kidding. "singlehandedly responsible for massive amounts of terrible emissions" To initiate a thread based upon such a horseshit story is something that belongs in a kiddie cartoon story. Are you trying to impress the newest member of SC and make him your new bosom buddy?

Why respond to lies or outright misinformation? "Efforts to pin the ongoing crisis on renewable energy gained steam in recent days. Fox News host Tucker Carlson devoted an entire segment to the claim Monday night, which didn't mention gas failures but did blame Texas' expansion into wind energy for deaths in the state. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott described the troubles processing and delivering natural gas in such extreme cold in an interview Tuesday with the local Dallas station WFAA. But when Abbott went on Fox News to talk about the disaster, he zeroed in on the Green New Deal, a progressive plan that proposes massive investment in renewable energy. Without mentioning any troubles with natural gas, he said that "our wind and our solar got shut down LIE and they were collectively more than 10 percent of our power grid,TRUE" and "that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power.LIE" According to The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, "About 56 percent of Texas' energy comes from natural gas, just under 24 percent comes from wind, 19 percent from coal, and almost 9 percent from nuclear energy.." Never quote Brent w/o fact checking because he lives at FOX and aspires to be adopted by Rupert Murdoch.

The weasel factor is squared in this one.

They need to get in contact with Kuujjuaraapik and Whapmagoostui.. A lengthy article about the use of diesel power generation in Canada's north. How wind power is replacing diesel that sometimes has to be flown in.

Fancy Bear programmers, smarter every year or its the Gulag.

Considering all that trump has gotten away with over four years...er 40 years. Perhaps its time to rename trump the teflon Don.

Yeah but many people hate dentists and their suicide rate: Mental Illness and Suicide in Dental School: Fighting the Stigma

Meanwhile from Russia. Five years after completed the new spaceport Roscosmos. Still avoids using it. The new Russian spaceport "According to Russian prosecutors, at least US$165 million was embezzled during the construction process (critics claim that these numbers are severely downplayed), and in 2015, 350 workers painted giant messages on their barracks, asking Vladimir Putin to help after long payment delays. The current price of the spaceport is US$7.5 billion with costs rising every year (for example, an additional US$105 million was requested in 2016).[43] press reports indicated that the Russian government is having difficulty in finding a good use for the new spaceport, and that other government ministries have been avoiding the project, calling it a "dolgostroy", which is Russian for an "endless construction boondoggle".[42] 'An unmanned Russian cargo ship launched successfully Monday with a load of supplies for the International Space Station. The Progress MS-16 cargo ship blasted off as scheduled at 9:45 a.m. (0445 GMT) from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan and reached a designated orbit en route to the station."

Hilarious the lies that politicians of all stripes want the public to believe.But after four years of trump the boundaries are so wide anything goes.

Texas republicans, they are a different breed. "Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) says he has “no defense” after his old tweet mocking California power outages have resurfaced as millions of people in the Lone Star state have lost power in their homes due to large winter storms. " Now his is caught traveling to Mexico with his kids during a pandemic and a "state of disaster" in Texas. "Just as the Houston Police Department was responding to winter storm-related deaths and pleading for residents to stay home on Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz’s staff asked them to help Cruz get to his super important flight to Cancun. “Senator Cruz’s staff contacted HPD personnel on Wednesday afternoon, Feb 17. His staff requested assistance upon the Senator’s arrival at the airport. Upon his arrival at the terminal, we monitored his movement,” the department said in a statement to The Daily Beast. A spokesperson wouldn’t say how many officers were called in to help Cruz, or how long they stayed with him, but said they were “just around.” Then we have the governor "During an interview with Sean Hannity Tuesday, Abbott decried the proposed Green New Deal and said frozen wind turbines and loss of solar power thrust Texas into the blackout situation. “This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America. Texas is blessed with multiple sources of energy such as natural gas and nuclear as well as solar and wind,” Abbott said Tuesday. “Our wind and solar got shut down and they were collectively more than 10 percent of our power grid. And that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power on a statewide basis,” he added." A Texas mayor resigned after telling people it was their own fault if they froze when power went out in the deadly winter storms Who can forget "Rick Perry: 'Texans would be without electricity for longer' to 'keep the federal government out'

Well thats certainly the current theory on Wall Street. Agree with all of that. Epidemiologists have been saying for a while that variants will be a issue for some time. Until the whole world reaches herd immunity either through vaccination or because infections have run their course. Global demand on US products won't increase. There will be a $8 trillion hangover of federal debt, state debt of another $2 trillion and a increase in consumer debt. Although US consumers paid down credit card debt by $120 billion in 2020. Net consumer debt rose. A net addition of nine million unemployed may become semi-permanent.

Most likely a product of FOX, Limbaugh, Alex Jones, et-al......Oh! and the former WH/trump troll factory.

Agree, you are right on target on many of your posts.

trump, the former chief and fascist.

Odd how all the anti-vaccine, anti-science and pro-trump stooges are all dying of "lung cancer" and not covid.

Lindsay Graham has given every indication that trump ain't going anywhere soon. He keeps his nose brown and regularly resurfaces to ass kiss.

With a new 700mw partially native owned facility on the Nelson coming online this year. Canada exports just under $2 billion of electricity /year to US They didn't forget XL so a little payback was warranted.

There was an extensive interview on CNBC with a Texas power official. He blamed Texas power failures on elected officials who under-price electricity to large institutional and commercial users. and "Ed Hirs, an energy fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Houston, blamed the failures on the state’s deregulated power system, which doesn’t provide power generators with the returns needed to invest in maintaining and improving power plants. “The ERCOT grid has collapsed in exactly the same manner as the old Soviet Union,” said Hirs. “It limped along on underinvestment and neglect until it finally broke under predictable circumstances. “For more than a decade, generators have not been able to charge what it costs them to produce electricity,” said Hirs. “If you don’t make a return on your money, how can you keep it up? It’s like not taking care of your car. If you don’t change the oil and tires, you can’t expect your car to be ready to evacuate, let alone get you to work....Most of the power knocked offline came from thermal sources, Woodfin said, particularly natural gas. Hirs said Houston residents can expect more power outages in the future. “The year 2011 was a miserable cold snap and there were blackouts,” said Hirs. “It happened before and will continue to happen until Texas restructures its electricity market.”

The damages trump did to America's reputation are being repaired right now. Because of a free press the corrupt in charge of the GOP inflicted temporary damage. World leaders understand exactly what occurred in the US and they know adults are back in the room. A little Roundup on the banana plants that are not growing where they belong should fix things nicely. Poland has a nice banana crop starting right now. So its not as if trump was a one off. I trust President Biden and he's only been in charge for a scant 27 days. Sometimes when there is a super size deposit in the toilet bowl it takes two flushes. Think of trump as needing a second flush to send him off where he can properly be digested.

As always you're wrong. For 2021 YTD the US is a net importer of oil. In fact 2020 was the sole year in the last 3/4s of a century where the US was not a net oil importer. That was because of trump's mismanagement of the covid crisis.

Yet with $5.20 a gallon gas, all kinds of regulations, expensive electricity, extensive social programs. The US needs to cut taxes, cut regulations, cut environmental regulations, etc. Then the GOP and big business still argue they can't compete! Surely Germans don't work that hard because they work an average of 404 hours less per year than Americans. Why don't you look for facts and argument that actually support your positions. Or is FOX/Rupert Murdoch just that bad at spinning lies.

I find beer cures sulking. That and a good laugh sometimes.

Have a couple glasses of that craft beer. trump is out and the lasting damage to the GOP party makes this a Pyrrhic victory. trump has Georgia prosecutor opens criminal investigation into Trump's "attempts to influence" election In addition to at least a dozen other investigations. The covid crisis is slowing and adults run the WH at least.