“Hydrogen Hubs” write:

Discover how Blue Green Energy’s hydrogen production and fueling stations offer a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. Experience longer range, zero emissions, and fast refueling with our cutting-edge facilities. Your investment fuels the transition to green energy, impacting both the environment and your portfolio.

This discussion began in the early 1970s with the OPEC oil embargo, and America’s realization that our national security was at risk accordingly.  But how far have we come in the ~55 intervening years?  Essentially nowhere.

Of the many reasons that hydrogen is impractical, perhaps number one is that the delivery infrastructure is not there, nor will it ever be.  You can unplug your toaster and plug in your car, but you cannot devise a way to serve up hydrogen across the 3.8 million square miles of the United States.

Obviously, this does not deter scammers like these guys from collecting investment dollars from people who will never see a dime in return.

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News flash: human civilization has precisely zero plans, be they short-term or long-term, for future generations.

Now, this may not be the case for the “savages” like the native Americans, whose leaders make decisions whose effects take into account the well-being of their great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren.

Yet the “developed” world, certainly American capitalists, couldn’t care less about the quality of life on Earth right this minute, let alone next year.  Floods? Wildfires? Loss of land mass?  Ocean acidification?  Loss of biodiversity?  All of these are someone else’s problems.

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The reader who sent me the meme here notes: There are a lot of stupid people in this country that actually believe him, and sadly they vote. This president is an embarrassment but thankfully he will be gone in a few years.

As shown at left, Trump was immediately “fact-checked” by the new Canadian Prime Minister.

Three and a half years is an eternity in terms of Tramp’s capacity to inflict damage on our country’s economy and global reputation. The fact that he’s an “embarrassment” is a minor detail in comparison.

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The last time I had a cola was in the late 1960s, and I actually could tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi; I preferred the latter, because it tasted cleaner, with less sugary syrup.

The point to be made here, however, is that I, like nearly everyone raised in an upper-middle household, stopped drinking this poison when we realized that it really was poison.

OK, but did that drive Coke and Pepsi out of business?  Hell no.  They simply turned their marketing efforts onto inner-city families that have little or no access to information on nutrition and health.

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Has this ever happened?

Once?

Or is it simply fodder for TV programming aimed at idiots?

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Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett has nailed it, IMO.

Mustn’t there be something that Trump can do to add real value to the lives of the common American?  Compared to where we were when he came into office, we’re more poor, sick, ignorant, hateful, isolated from our trading partners, and alienated from our allies.

 

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The average price of gas in the U.S. today is $3.165 per gallon. This is a fact, not an opinion.

However, as shown at left, that means precisely zero to Trump and his followers, for whom the truth has no value whatsoever.

 

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We didn’t have this garbage when we grew up, so how did it happen?

The sad truth is that many Americans have family members whose thinking is not too distant from this guy’s.  Many of our parents were lost to Fox News.

One of mine was, and it hurt our family badly.

 

 

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There’s an interesting concept expressed in the meme here, but I dispute the basic idea that Americans had the best lives on the planet.

Each year, we lose ground to the rest of the developed world in terms of education, health outcomes and life expectancy, happiness rankings, and freedom rankings.

Almost all the new wealth that has entered this country since 1980 has gone to the top 5%, and the working class is indignant.

As a society, we’re grossly indifferent to the suffering of others.

Since the 2010 Supreme Court decision “Citizens United,” our government has grown increasingly corrupt and our lawmakers now show no interest in passing legislation that would help the common American.

 

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It would be nice if we could think of a single thing that Trump has done since he re-assumed office that has made the United States a better, stronger country, but that doesn’t seem possible.

With the exception of the uber-wealthy, our people are less safe, less healthy, and poorer than we were last year.  Until recently, our nation had strong allies, and we weren’t cozying up to the world’s most brutal dictators, as suggested in the photo at right.

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