McDonald’s
These are disgusting human beings selling terrible, low-nutrition food. My advice: Stay away.
Reader #2: Vote Trump, drill oil.
Me: Are you the guy with the white truck?
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The MAGA Empire Strikes Back
It would be interesting to know what’s behind the sticker like the one on this guy’s truck. Obviously, America suffers its share of anti-woke, pro-Trump sentiment, which could be self-organizing.
Yet, needless to say, Big Oil may lie at the bottom of all this.
In any case, it requires some heavy-duty ignorance to be unaware that the world of energy and transportation is in the process of phasing out fossil fuels in favor of electricity.
Two comments and my response:
Reader #1: Keystone pipeline was Canadian oil, sent through our breadbasket and getting sold to China. It was all risk and no benefit to the country. Even the jobs it would have provided were minimal. About 2500 jobs for 2-3 years and then only about 36 jobs once it’s built. The US produces plenty of oil. Our reserves were enough to flood the market, drop the price of oil and buy it back cheaper with money that was made. There are over 2000 permits to drill the oil companies have yet to use. The idea that we need more oil is just not true. We have and have been producing more oil than ever.
Me: Exactly right.
Organized Labor for Harris
One would have thought that what the president of the United Auto Workers said here was so obvious that it was hardly worth mentioning. Yet a surprising number of the working class under Trump had turned to the Republicans, presumedly on the basis that the GOP was not “woke,” and it was important for these folks to “own the libs.”
But that doesn’t seem to be holding in place at this point. Labor unions are on the rise, their members want to elect a U.S. president who honestly and vigorously stands behind them.
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Trumpism Failing?
I was listening to an excerpt of a speech Trump gave the other day, which theme was that Kamala Harris is not too smart. What stood out to me was that the audience was almost completely silent.
It was only recently that his support base would go bananas when their hero made derogatory comments about his opponents–especially black women. Is it possible that the bloom is off the rose here, i.e., that these morons have simply heard enough of this hateful garbage?
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Guest Blog Posts at 2GreenEnergy
Since 2GreenEnergy was launched in 2009, we’ve had approximately 1100 blog posts, i.e., those written by other people. As long as the content doesn’t promote gambling, illicit drugs, or porn, and could be considered to be generally helpful to our readers, I’m fine.
As shown below, however, there is another exception: promoting energy solutions that are designed to ruin the planet.
From a PR agent from Pheasant Energy, Texas-based oil and gas concern: I will be happy to know what’s the fee for a new guest post.
My response: We don’t promote fossil fuels for any price, and neither should you.
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Education Around the World
As shown at left, there are nations whose policies towards education are such that young people are actually encouraged to graduate from college. Voters in these countries believe that their societies will be better and stronger if their citizens spend four years reading the world’s most important books, learning to write well, coming to understand science, and asking themselves the great questions that have been troubling humankind since we lived in caves.
The truth about the Unites States, and this is the case in so many areas of human endeavor here, we simply don’t care. Whether it’s education, climate change mitigation, women’s rights, gun laws, or the disintegration of rule of law, our leaders are leading us nowhere.
If Your Parent Relies on Social Security . . . .
Or, more directly, you should be angry if your own Social Security benefits are cut, since you’ve paid into it since you were 15 years old, and now you’re 60+, and it’s your time in life to enjoy the pay-outs from the program.
Lots of us object to the idea that some Republican administration will ultimately succeed in privatizing it, ultimately lowering our benefits.
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Corporations Are Dropping Climate Goals, and One Is Being Honest About It
From CNBC:Air New Zealand on Tuesday dropped its 2030 climate goal, citing delivery delays of fuel-efficient aircraft and the affordability of alternative jet fuels.
The announcement means that New Zealand’s national flag carrier has become the first major airline to water down its near-term climate aspirations, a move that reflects the scale of the industry’s challenge to meet its decarbonization goals.
Air New Zealand CEO Greg Foran said in a statement that it has become apparent in recent weeks “that potential delays to our fleet renewal plan pose an additional risk to the target’s achievability.”
Should we be angry at Air New Zealand, when they’re the first airline on the planet to be honest?
There is a limit to which companies in this industry, or any other, can go to maintain both profitability and their commitment to environment sustainability.
As the Earth’s temperature continues to warm, will consumers make sacrifices? Will corporation accept cuts in earnings? The simple answer to both these questions is no.
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Last Chance to Invest!
Doesn’t it seem that “get rich quick” schemes seem to be marketed to increasingly stupid people?Instead of hiring a kid at $9/hour, you can completely replace the human element of selling dishes of ice-cream with a few hundred thousand dollars of robotics.
Actually, it’s not a complete replacement. The owner has to remain constantly on-call to replace the empty containers (assuming that customers actually patronize the machine).
Biomethane
I suspect this whole thing is made up, because there is no such thing as a “biomethane engine.” “Biomethane” just means that the methane didn’t come from fossil fuels, but from the recent decay of organic material, e.g., plants, animal waste, etc. Similarly, there is no such thing as a “wind-energy lamp.” The lamp on my desk doesn’t care where the electrons running through it came from.
In addition, our civilization is phasing out combustion as a means of generating electricity, because it’s inherently inefficient and dirty.
A minor exception applies to the use of noxious feedstock, and we’ve been working on this for decades. E.g., if you have thousands of dairy or beef cows, and you’re able to collect and process that waste that would otherwise be foul-smelling and pathogenic, then, sure, let’s convert it to biomethane. This may be feasible some day, but it isn’t now, and I expect that it will never arrive without significant government subsidies.
