ILSR states community power scorecard gives a letter grade to how the states score on community power. Some states score poorly even though they have changed to renewables. Utilities are greedy and don’t the state to allow the DERs – distributed energy resources, AKA net metering. https://ilsr.org/2022-community-power-scorecard/ Also see California NEM 3.0.
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2022-02-23 Economic Inequality: Kroger
A quote dated today about 1:30 PM from… Robert Reich 49 minutes ago << Kroger paid its CEO more than $22 million. The CEO-to-worker pay ratio at the company is 909-to-1. According to an Economic Roundtable survey of more than 10,000 Kroger workers, about 75% are food insecure and 14% have experienced homelessness. This is
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2022-02-21 Republicans Guilty Of Hypocrisy
A group of anti-Trump Republicans and conservatives put out an ad calling out GOP leaders for their hypocrisy on Jan 6. Republican Accountability Project put out an advert on Fox. Collective amnesia? They said it: Trump was irresponsible and allowed the Jan. 6 attempted coup d’etat to happen. A 1 min. YouTube video. https://youtu.be/68TCUFIi2Io
2022-02-15 Trump’s Dubious Financial Statements
The Mazars accounting firm is cutting ties with Trump Organization. They say his financial statements are dubious. https://youtu.be/csAS4WLvMao I have to feel a bit of satisfaction that Trump’s crooked past is catching up with him.
2022-02-10 Biden’s Climate Agenda
In the 2022 Feb 10 email with The Guardian’s Down to Earth, the author complains about the following (quoted). I really don’t think that these are a big issue; they’re not important because the world is changing over to electric vehicles and the demand for fossil fuels is going down so it is likely that
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2022-02-08 Why Texans Don’t Have Power
This is why 70,000 Texans are without power after the freeze this week. Nice to know that Gov. Abbot is sacrificing Texans for money. https://youtube.com/shorts/qPxLCioEhao More about the (un)reliability of the Texas natural gas supply and why it’s not as cheap as renewables plus storage. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/02/07/the-hidden-costs-of-keeping-gas-plants-online-in-texas-beyond/
2022-02-05 Global Warming Is Even Worse Than You Believe
This is very bad, indeed. More critical climate tipping points will be crossed in the next 3 to 9 years. We must act now! << Because we went over the [386 ppm CO2] climate cliff in 2015, and an average global temperature increase of 1.5 C also triggers runaway global warming, we now have to
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2022-01-25 Lordstown To Make ePickups
This year, Foxconn is set to produce pickup EVs at the Lordstown plant. Quote: << Depending on who you ask/believe, the Lordstown concept was an evolution of the Workhorse electric vehicle project that originally acquired the Ohio factory from GM in a highly politicized sale that, many believe, helped then-president Donald Trump solidify support in
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2022-01-08 Should American Schools Teach Arabic Numerals?
The question is, “Should American schools teach Arabic numerals as part of their curriculum?” The answers show how little people know about what they’re forming their opinions on. Our system of the numbers 0 thru 9 is called Arabic Numerals.
2022-01-07 Vote; Electoral Votes
This Brooks& Capehart piece on PBS Newshour says some very important things about voting. https://youtu.be/p60dJvxbaQg
