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Post by aquaduct on Mar 31, 2024 17:22:23 GMT -5
Compromise has gotten us an EPA ban on internal combustion engines by 2035... Well, just for the sake of accuracy, there is no stated ban on the internal combustion engine. There are looming standards that might put an end to the sale of new vehicles that are powered by gasoline or diesel, but the internal combustion engine may still be around for quite a while if it is powered by a fuel that doesn't release CO2, and hydrogen is such a fuel. Only the future will tell what ends up working or not working, but several major car manufacturers are developing cars with internal combustion engines, good old V8s, V6s, and 4 bangers that run on hydrogen instead of gasoline or diesel. So far, they aren't exploding. Time will tell. The future is so tricky to predict. [can't get video to work. This link should] www.caranddriver.com/news/a42796089/2024-honda-cr-v-powered-by-hydrogen-details/[Toyota's work] www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGL5g91KwLAHydrogen as a fuel sucks (10% of the energy capacity of gasoline or diesel). Probably worse than EVs. So as we move toward 2035, vehicle makers (not just cars, but also semis, crane trucks, combines, ships, trains, lawn mowers- they're all under EPA's regulatory authority and CO2-free mandate) will be forced to build vehicles nobody wants and will not be able to make vehicles people do want. This can only serve to crater and destroy a major portion of our industrial base. And the business of doing the hard work that supports everything about modern life will similarly collapse. Welcome to an almost unimaginable dystopia. Hope y'all like it when you get it.
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 31, 2024 16:35:40 GMT -5
But still not even close to the best solution. I am willing to agree to disagree with you, Peter. I think compromise is closer to the best (better?) solution than you think it is. Everyone makes sacrifices, but also make progress.
Compromise has gotten us an EPA ban on internal combustion engines by 2035. Welcome to the wholesale destruction of the country. That's anywhere near the best solution to anything in this country?
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 31, 2024 16:15:51 GMT -5
But still not even close to the best solution. The best for who? Anybody.
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 30, 2024 21:40:13 GMT -5
Compromise simply means that the outcome sucks for everybody involved. Or it's the closest thing to the best solution that everyone can live with. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. An optimist says the glass is half full. An engineer says the glass is twice as large as it needs to be.
But still not even close to the best solution.
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 30, 2024 20:35:45 GMT -5
Compromise simply means that the outcome sucks for everybody involved.
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 30, 2024 15:02:23 GMT -5
"Lyrics are just wasted time between guitar solos."- old Gibson ad.
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 30, 2024 14:59:17 GMT -5
I've seen pictures of Wes. He seemed blacker. He's also gotten cuter. Quite a trick for a dead man.
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 30, 2024 10:46:00 GMT -5
"I like politicians who are at least willing to consider compromise. there are few of those." I agree on both counts. Unfortunately, many voters see a willingness to compromise as a lack of principle that merits removal from office. I'd disagree. I'd say our willingness to compromise has led us to a political quagmire from which has emerged a thoroughly out of control Federal government. In my view compromise is thoroughly overrated. Our system is supposed to make sure that things that are not worth actually doing don't get done. Things that are worth doing should take relatively little compromise.
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 29, 2024 18:46:13 GMT -5
I got a bottle of Ardbeg for my birthday and I'm saving it for the day that the Loper decision comes down from the Supreme Court. I'm trusting that Chevron and Massachusetts get overturned in that decision, dismantling the greatest fraud in our history, "climate change".
Once that brings the progressive con to light for all to see, the engineer of this Supreme Court will walk to victory, probably while Biden collapses in senile rage.
No, no "lesser of two evils" for me. Just creeping totalitarianism crushed by a return to our concepts of "Land of the Free" enshrined in our Constitution.
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 29, 2024 5:04:42 GMT -5
Hard libertarian real close to the conservative boundary.
For whatever that matters.
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 27, 2024 7:48:08 GMT -5
A little spray paint should fix that weird finish right up.
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 22, 2024 21:28:01 GMT -5
Oakland University? WTF? That's 45 minutes from the house I grew up in. Well now I've got a reason to care.
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 22, 2024 11:37:48 GMT -5
Been kind of a weird couple days around here. On Wednesday there was a controlled burn scheduled for over on the Massanutten. So far, so good.
So the fire people lit it off Wednesday morning. By afternoon, winds had jumped to 20-30 mph with gusts to 50 mph. Everything started catching fire at that point and some folks started being evacuated. An area close to us had 15 houses burn to the ground and folks have been diligently taking up collections and putting the people and pets up in local schools. Although this was all close to us, nothing has impacted us so far.
Came in to work this morning (I took a vacation day yesterday) and the mountain between here (New Market) and Luray is still burning.
And then sometime yesterday, some major Mexican cartel boss escaped in DC and came out here somewhere. So all night long we've got helicopters flying around the neighborhood looking for that guy and any remaining fire stuff and I guess the next sign of the apocalypse.
So weird.
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 21, 2024 20:51:42 GMT -5
She tells offender "You know what you did." Ooooo... hope you're ducking for cover with that one.
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 18, 2024 21:03:16 GMT -5
I think most pollsters are moving to texts. No one can resist a text. I find them even easier to get rid of without reading.
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 18, 2024 11:11:56 GMT -5
I won't mention that it's the first dqy of spring, as that is Marty's domain. Not in our house. Melva's birthday is the 21st, so that's what we go by. Our anniversary is the 20th, the real first day of spring. That's Wednesday for all y'all that aren't counting.
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 18, 2024 11:08:04 GMT -5
If I don’t know the number, I don’t answer. They can go to voicemail. My SIL actually has her voice mail prompt telling people that, and to leave a message if they’re someone who actually needs to contact her. I do the same thing. Add everyone I need to talk to into my contacts. If someone calls and a name comes up, I answer. If not, they go to voice mail. If they leave a message that convinces me they're real, I'll call them back. After that they're simply forgotten.
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 13, 2024 17:24:21 GMT -5
You go, man!
Best wishes from Virginia.
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 13, 2024 17:21:52 GMT -5
Everyone knows there's no such thing as an October Surprise. Could be true. But this is more like a Late June Surprise. And the EPA losing their ability to regulate CO2 would be instantaneous. The rest of it may take a few weeks to follow.
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 13, 2024 14:08:01 GMT -5
I still believe that June will bring the reversal of Chevron and the end to the 40 year progressive con that has destroyed what remained of a free and democratic society. And that will be entirely Trump's fault. November won't even be a contest after that. Do you think the average voter on either side will actually care or notice in the short time between that ruling and the election? I'm not questioning the importance of that decision - just the influence of it on an election just a few months later. Well, if the EPA instantly craters, liberals never so much as mention Dobbs again, the paperwork involved in your business suddenly decreases 75%, Tesla suddenly contemplates bankruptcy, Northern Virginia experiences its first ever unemployment driven recession, the US pulls out of the Paris Accords followed by a bunch of other countries deciding not to play if we're not going to play, and Joe Biden's dementia accelerates to a full permanent fetal position, I'd say that will be plenty of time to influence the election.
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