Trump talks too much about the wrong things. Harris won’t talk at all. 
Let’s tune into the internet archive Wayback Machine to Kamala Harris’ Climate Plan for the People to see what she was saying about climate change and EVs.
We are living through a worsening climate crisis that is impacting communities across America and the globe every day.
The science has established that limiting global temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius can avoid some of the most severe impacts of climate change. Meeting that goal will require the world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions roughly 50 percent by 2030 and reach net-zero global emissions by 2050. And because the United States is the largest single greenhouse gas emitter in history, we have an obligation to lead this fight.
My plan — a Climate Plan For the People — is about putting people first, justice for communities that have been harmed and accountability for those responsible. It provides the pathway to engage all Americans to tackle the climate crisis, build a clean economy that creates millions of family-sustaining jobs, and guarantee every person’s right to breathe clean air and drink clean water.
My plan sets out a bold target to exceed the Paris Agreement climate goals and achieve a clean economy by 2045, investing $10 trillion in public and private funding to meet the initial 10-year mobilization necessary to stave off the worst climate impacts.
By 2030, we will run on 100 percent carbon-neutral electricity, all new buses, heavy-duty vehicles, and vehicle fleets will be zero-emission.
We will meet 100 percent of our electricity demand with carbon-neutral power by 2030, … will phase out all fossil fuel development on public lands and implement conservation and renewable energy strategies to make our public lands net carbon sinks by 2030.
We must boldly and aggressively fix the damage done by the Trump administration. That is why Kamala will put in place the policies to achieve a 50 percent emissions reduction by 2030.
Top Security Priority
Harris vowed to “make the climate crisis a top national security priority.”
As a senator from California, Harris co-sponsored the Zero-Emissions Act in 2019, which would require by 2040 that 100% of new passenger vehicle sales in the U.S. release no greenhouse gases.
Harris Campaign Dodges EV Mandate Walkback
When Axios asked Harris to comment on her alleged shift, Harris refused to comment.
Please consider Harris Campaign Dodges EV Mandate Walkback
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign won’t say whether she supports requiring automakers to build only electric or hydrogen vehicles by 2035 — a position she took during her 2020 campaign for president.
Since taking over President Biden’s campaign in July, Harris has been light on policy details.
Harris’ campaign has said she no longer supports many of her past progressive positions and has embraced more centrist stances on health care, immigration, gun control and fracking.
- In a lengthy “fact-check” email last week that covered several issues, a campaign spokesperson included a line saying that Harris “does not support an electric vehicle mandate” — suggesting she changed her previous position, without elaborating.
- On Aug. 28 Axios asked the Harris campaign to clarify her position, and whether she would sign or veto a bill she co-sponsored in 2019 that included such a mandate for manufacturers.
The Harris’ campaign ultimately declined to comment. It remains unclear how a Harris administration would deal with climate-related rules for automobiles.
In Creampuff Interview, CNN Spoon Feeds Harris the Answers to its Questions
On August 29, I commented In Creampuff Interview, CNN Spoon Feeds Harris the Answers to its Questions
Is It Because?
Please consider the CNN report Harris explains in exclusive CNN interview why she’s shifted her position on key issues since her first run for president
Pressed by Bash on her reversals on fracking and decriminalizing illegal border crossings, Harris sought to explain why her positions had changed.
“How should voters look at some of the changes that you’ve made?” Bash asked Harris. “Is it because you have more experience now and you’ve learned more about the information? Is it because you were running for president in a Democratic primary? And should they feel comfortable and confident that what you’re saying now is going to be your policy moving forward?”
On Thursday, Harris pointed to the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, which provided record investments in combatting climate change, as an example of her climate record.
“My values have not changed. So that is the reality of it. And four years of being vice president, I’ll tell you, one of the aspects, to your point, is traveling the country extensively,” she said, pointing to her 17 visits to Georgia since becoming vice president. “I believe it is important to build consensus, and it is important to find a common place of understanding of where we can actually solve problems.”
“My Values Have Not Changed”
Upon refection, I believe you can take that to the bank.
Her values have not changed. What has changed is Harris is pretending that the policies she supports have changed.
It’s not possible to chart a new way forward, with the same old lies.
She now supports fracking. What a hoot. There is no way to reconcile those “values” with anything other than campaign lies.
Harris supports fracking because Pennsylvania is the largest natural gas export state after Texas.
She tries to appear more moderate to swing voters foolish enough to believe her, while simultaneously trying to appease the hard core radical left with nonsense about values.
Both believe, but one of them is wrong.
“Change You Can Believe In”
This reminds me of the very clever Obama campaign slogan: “Change You Can Believe In”
Obama never promised change for the better, or for that matter, any change at all. He promised something people could believe in.
People believed. Campaign promise fulfilled! How many are pleased with the outcome?
So, you better believe “My Values Have Not Changed”. Nor will her policies that support those dubious values.
Not sure if Headboard’s stupidity is an act. It appears not, but there’s a good chance it is. Regardless, she has no accomplishments to point to, so she’s a great representation of the Democrat party.
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“My Values Have Not Changed”
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Sure. Didn’t have any then. And neither do I now.
Instead, I just cackle whatever I believe will personally benefit me at any given instant.
Still insisting the choice is between a minor amputation (DJT) versus full-blown sepsis with KH. Minor amputation for the win, MIsh!
Who’s party is the Black Nazi party. Who is their boss ?
The Black Nazi Party would be the party of the Black Nazi Party. Which American political parties support the alleged neo-Nazi Azov brigade in Ukraine? “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Conflicts of interest create strange bedfellows. Half the U.S. voters are fine with voting for Marxist Democrats.
PA isn’t in Mad Silver’s pocket. PA didn’t signal submission. On your mark, get set, jump. NBC nerd is jumping up/down over his odds numbers : Kamala 5% over Trump. Jump baby jump. He imitates a crazy British who was sacked bc he was such an annoying nerd. Kristen Welker started laughing.
Every day I get Halloween Kamala green monster in the mail.
Trump might talk too much but you know exactly what you will get. With Harris, not so much. Will you get 2019’s Kamrade Kamala or 2024’s MAGA Kamala? I’m not sure she even knows.
Oh she knows. She’ll get as much far left stuff as she can: banning gas cars after X date like California, censoring “misinformation ” (anything counter to the narrative), free sex changes for illegal aliens. The whole nine yards. Her tribe calls pregnant women “pregnant people”. WTF? They are not normal.
Should not Harris be talking with President Jill Biden on how to implement this?
That is the appropriate thing to do given there is now an abdication soft Coup of the US Presidency and US has its first woman in that office.
Has anyone recently checked for Pulse of Mitch McConnell recently as he is the opposition and supposedly on top of things?
The same happened in the recent UK election – neither side really said anything to avoid getting held up over it….and you know that neither side is going to do anything radical to change the big problems (deficit, inequality, healthcare etc.).
So you are left picking the side which you think a) has more competence and b) the better set of morals. Competence and morals being measured in relative not absolute terms.
Seems a pretty clear cut choice to the rest of the world.
I quote from the prior blog entry:
If you buy into this belief and I believe that many posting here do, what does it matter what Harris might tell you about her policy leanings? Most of them will not be delivered on, same as Trump’s and Biden’s and Obama’s and etc., etc. weren’t.
It’s like cheering for the Villain or the Hero in a pro wrestling match…. end of the day it is all fake… and who wins does not matter
Harris even twists her thoughts on things EV into Ever Variable. Why doesn’t she just say Maybe as her final position on anything.
BRICS and De-dollarization: An Alternative or Potential Disaster?http://infobrics.org/post/42268/
“According to the supermajor, global oil production is facing a natural decline at a rate of some 15% annually over the next 25 years. For context, the IEA sees the rate of natural decline at 8% annually. Exxon points out, however, that the faster decline rate is a result of the shift towards shale and other unconventional oil production, where depletion happens faster than it does in conventional formations.
“To put it in concrete terms: With no new investment, global oil supplies would fall by more than 15 million barrels per day in the first year alone.” This is a scary prospect because “At that rate, by 2030, oil supplies would fall from 100 million barrels per day to less than 30 million – that’s 70 million barrels short of what’s needed to meet demand every day.””
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Exxon-Joins-OPEC-in-Warning-of-Looming-Oil-Supply-Crisis.amp.html
Oh dear. What’s this. More doom and gloom from FastEddy!
From the same article:
“ Of course, this is not going to happen. Long before such a massive squeeze materializes, there will be calls for more production, often from the same people who are currently calling for an end to all new oil and gas investment, as the IEA’s Fatih Birol did shortly after the IEA published its roadmap to net zero back in 2021.”
If the world oil industry stopped all E&P spending then production would decline. Which is why the industry spends many billions per year on E&P to maintain or even grow production. Oil production has been growing by 1 mbpd per year for the last 50 years now. Doubling from 50 mbpd to the current 102 mbpd.
You are such a f*cking moron.
Hmmm…
World crude oil extraction reached an all-time high of 84.6 million barrels per day in late 2018, and production hasn’t been able to regain that level since then.
In this post, I show that changing oil prices have had varying impacts on production. Recently, lower prices seem to be associated with lower production because extraction has become less profitable for producers. A temporary spike in oil prices does little to raise production.
The view of economists that crude oil extraction can continue to rise indefinitely because lower production leads to higher prices, which in turn leads to greater production, is not true. (Economists also believe that substitutes can be helpful, but this is not a subject I will try to cover in this post.)
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2024/09/11/crude-oil-extraction-may-be-well-past-peak/
Seems you are on the Dunce Camp. Seems even if they invest … there is just not much left to be found that is economically viable to extract… hence we flatlined in 2018.
Duh
Don’t count on shale to increase production:
Shale boss says US has passed peak oil | Financial Times Read More
The Precarious State of the Shale Oil Industry:
Try to get your head around the idea that by 2027, US tight oil production might be 12 MM BOPD, not the 9 MM it is now, which is what cheerleaders say it will be, and that means we’ll actually have to find and extract 12 MM BOPD… before we can ever grow the new 3 MM.
Man, that is a slew of new wells! Thats gonna take like…four times the HZ wells we’ve already drilled in the US.
Where?
Read More
Yes. You have shown me this article from Mike many, many, many times now. And of course I read it long, long ago, before you first referenced it here.
Now, try to get YOUR head around the fact that I have invested in mostly Canadian oil companies, who have 50+ years of reserves left. And that any decline in US shale will benefit my investments. But I am not so stupid as to believe (as you do) that US shale will disappear in the next couple of years. It’s going to take a long time.
It’s not the doom and gloom you have been predicting for years now.
It’s almost as if you “want” doom and gloom so everyone else can be as miserable as you must be.
Yes. “US shale” is peaking. It should peak between 13 and 14 mbpd for the next few years and then begin a slow decline to 11-12 mbpd by 2030. And then drop precipitously after 2030.
Though, a year ago you predicted it would begin it’s huge decline in 2024! Lol! What happened to your prediction?
Meanwhile, oil from Canada’s monstrous oil sands and huge shale reserves will keep growing in importance every year. No peak oil in Canada for the next 50 years. Canadian oil and gas companies are minting money for their shareholders.
Funny that you never mention them in your doom and gloom predictions. They will be big beneficiaries of any decline in US production.
Lol! The 84.6 mbpd figure is what’s called conventional oil. And yes, it is peaking. The 102 mbpd figure includes unconventional oil (from oil sands, shale and synthetics), condensates, NGLs, and refinery gains. This is the total amount of oil produced in the world each day. The figures also show that the world consumes 102.5 mbpd. Which is why inventories have been dropping by about 0.5 mbpd. If the world was only producing 84.6 mbpd there would have been lineups at every gas station in the world for the last 15 years.
As conventional oil reserves become more difficult and expensive to find and extract, substitutes are found. Oil sands and shale are the “big 2” substitutes.
That’s why I own a lot a lot of shares in Canadian oil sands and shale companies. Breakeven costs in the $30s; 30-70 years of reserves; little or no debt; huge cash flows. As conventional oil becomes more expensive over time, those companies will benefit.
You, on the other hand, don’t take advantage and invest in this sector. You just like to predict doom and gloom.
Duh.
Ever heard the term picking up pennies in front of a steam roller?
Conventional has peaked… shale is responsible for a huge proportion of the oil burned every day…
The Precarious State of the Shale Oil Industry:
Try to get your head around the idea that by 2027, US tight oil production might be 12 MM BOPD, not the 9 MM it is now, which is what cheerleaders say it will be, and that means we’ll actually have to find and extract 12 MM BOPD… before we can ever grow the new 3 MM. Man, that is a slew of new wells!
Thats gonna take like…four times the HZ wells we’ve already drilled in the US.
Where? Read More
The wise thing to do would be to go bucket listing… which I continue to do … northern India in August… just back from two weeks in Japan… might do another month in the southern islands of Japan in October.
Time is short
What I will not bother with investing… what’s the point when it’s all headed for zero
Lol! Have you ever tried thinking for yourself?
How many times are you going to quote that article?
When exactly is the huge decline in US shale going to happen? You said it would happen in 2023. Wrong. Then you said it would happen in 2024. Wrong.
How about 2025?
And you still haven’t answered my question.
Will the Matterhorn pipeline (starting up now) allow for INCREASED Permian production over the next year?
Or how about the other 3 pipelines that were recently approved (Apex, Blackcomb, and Saguaro Connector). Or the others that are still in the planning stages?
Odd to approve all these new pipelines to take away production that you say is imminently about to decline.
https://boereport.com/2024/09/10/permian-basin-gas-capacity-to-increase-with-matterhorn-pipeline-launch-eia-says/amp/
I have only commented on Mish for less than a year… so not sure where you got that from.
Speaking of lack of intelligence… since when do pipelines refill oil reservoirs?
At best they might help with draining what is left of the remaining oil in reservoirs… which would make sense to do if there were no other sources of oil …
Which there are not because as we can see total oil production globally … not just conventional (conventional is deep into depletion .. only alternative sources are keeping the production up)…
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2024/09/11/crude-oil-extraction-may-be-well-past-peak/
Keep in mind .. conventional goes further beyond peak every single minute… those fields do NOT refill…
And now shale … as explained here… is peaking … you really need to read this in its entirety … but you won’t
https://www.oilystuff.com/single-post/the-hamster-wheel
In 2023 you said that US shale was about to dramatically decline. Then as the year drew to a close, and it didn’t decline, you predicted it would drop off a cliff in 2024. Which it didn’t. And now you conveniently forget that?
“ Speaking of lack of intelligence… since when do pipelines refill oil reservoirs?”
Lol! Moron! Pipelines take oil and gas AWAY from reservoirs. My question to you was about all the NEW pipelines being built to take even MORE oil and gas away from the Permian. Why are they building new pipelines to take MORE oil and gas away, if that production is about to decline so rapidly, as you keep predicting? The only reason to build additional pipelines is if they expect MORE oil and gas to be produced.
Speaking of world oil production and reserves; here are the countries with the largest oil reserves.
The US is 11th on the list and will start to see production decline by the end of the decade. Fortunately, Canada is third on the list. A country with 1/9 our population and 5x our reserves. They will be able to supply us with all the oil we need for decades if our production declines.
https://www.worldometers.info/oil/oil-reserves-by-country/
According to Rystad, the current resource replacement ratio for conventional resources is only 16 percent. Only 1 barrel out of every 6 consumed is being replaced with new resources. Read More
Yes. But there you go again; confusing “conventional” oil with total oil.
Conventional oil is peaking. But other sources, such as oil sands, shale oil, synthetics, condensates and NGLs are where the growth in oil production has been coming from over the last 15 years.
And Canada has a lot of all of those other sources. Which is why I am heavily invested in the Canadian oil and gas companies that stand to benefit.
Of course, this will probably fall on your deaf ears. And over the next year you will keep repeating the same doom and gloom nonsense about the world running out of oil this year or next.
The solution nobody will say out loud is population reduction is the fastest way to reduce the demand for energy to the point renewables can supply all energy needs.
But the biggest energy users never step forward and commit the ultimate sacrifice (that means you John Kerry, and also Al Gore). They expect the normal people to do the sacrificing.
Population reduction will collapse the supply chains… and the global economy would implode
> Me
– It appears that some feel, that some studies have shown, that limiting global temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius can avoid some of the most severe impacts of climate change.
> While we don’t obviously completely understand “Climate” at all just yet, some feel as though they have a handle on some of the “Most Severe” impacts of said “Climate Change” Hmm..
– To meet that goal, will “Require” The World to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
> First Problem: “We” are Not The World.
> Second Problem: “We” can’t possibly CUT Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 50% by 2030, AND Certainly not 100% by 2050…
– And because the United States is the largest single greenhouse gas emitter in history, we have an obligation to lead this fight.
> No, because we believe in “Saving Our Planet” we have an Obligation to listen, learn, and respond with “Our Own Research”, and to do Our Fair Share, like everyone else, from This Point Forward.
– My plan — a Climate Plan For the People — is about putting people first,
> “Which People” Exactly, and “Why”
– justice for communities
> “Which Communities” Exactly, and “What Justice” and “Why”
– It provides the pathway to engage all Americans to tackle the climate crisis, by building a clean economy that creates millions of family-sustaining jobs, and guarantee every person’s right to breathe clean air and drink clean water.
> So “All Americans” Building really Means “Taxpayers” will Pay For This.
> So “All Americans” are “Currently Guaranteed” to “Breath Clean Air”? And do? WHO KNEW?
> So “All Americans” are “Currently Guaranteed” to “Drink Clean Water” and Do? WHO KNEW?
> A “Clean Economy” Creates Millions of “Family Jobs” WHO KNEW!!!
– My plan sets out a bold target to exceed the Paris Agreement, and achieve a clean economy by 2045!
> Not simply Meet, but Rather Exceed the World Agreement, because I’m Special.
– By investing $10 trillion in public and private funding to meet the initial 10-year mobilization necessary to stave off the worst climate impacts.
> Taxpayers Again? $10T This Time? I bet a cheap date your not, but call it a hunch for now…
– By 2030, we will run on 100 percent carbon-neutral electricity, all new buses, heavy-duty vehicles, and vehicle fleets will be zero-emission.
> She’s Delusional, and thinks where China perhaps? Does She know where this electricity all comes from, and where the abundance of it will come from so quickly, and How by chance? Oh and Distribution of said… oh never mind it’s ONLY “2024”
– We will meet 100 percent of our electricity demand with carbon-neutral power by 2030, … will phase out all fossil fuel development on public lands and implement conservation and renewable energy strategies to make our public lands net carbon sinks by 2030.That is why Kamala will put in place the policies to achieve a 50 percent emissions reduction by 2030.
> Blah, Blah, Blah… “You Lost Me” at Hello
– “My Values Have Not Changed”
> Well they better hurry up, so You can Catch Up”…
Only one size fits.
Me First.
EU car sales at 3-year low in August, EV sales plunge 44%https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eu-car-sales-3-year-low-august-ev-sales-down-439-acea-says-2024-09-19/
Americans are dumber than Europeans… they will eventually come to understand that EVs are a stupid idea and that they are powered by fossil fuels… and sales will crash there too
hahahahahahahaha
Jeff Green – your thoughts?
You have to elect her to see what her policies are
You can’t believe anything that comes out of Harris mouth. If you want to know her position on anything look at what she has DONE over the past 3 years. Actions speak louder than words. I know there are a lot of people that hate Trump but you’re voting for the lesser of the two evils. Out country will never be the same again if Harris wins the election. She is all about changing America to CONTROL Americans.
You can’t believe anything that comes out of a politicians mouth.
Remember Hope and Change… remember Drain the Swamp
If Harris appoints more Supreme Court justices, there will no longer be freedom of speech, association, etc. The totalitarian woe left will have completed its conquest and like California, they will open the borders and impoverish the US to create a one party state. Game over. Time to go where you are treated best, there are other countries where freedoms are on the upswing!
I just kinda just shake my head when I listen to Harris.
Texas is adopting solar at a far faster pace than California. With the price of large battery storage in free fall and solar cells getter far cheaper and better the adoption rate is doubling every year. Tesla ha a two year order backlog on large scale batteries and is hurriedly building out production capacity. We are reaching a tipping point where free market forces are gonna really drive the adoption rate to where in a dozen years or so renewables will be 90% of the power production in the U.S.
One would think Harris would know about this stuff and talk about it on the campaign trail.🤷🏻♂️
I’ll take the way way under on that 90%.
I’d bet every dime I own that 90% will never happen
Replacement of oil by alternative sources
While oil has many other important uses (lubrication, plastics, roadways, roofing) this section considers only its use as an energy source. The CMO is a powerful means of understanding the difficulty of replacing oil energy by other sources. SRI International chemist Ripudaman Malhotra, working with Crane and colleague Ed Kinderman, used it to describe the looming energy crisis in sobering terms.[13] Malhotra illustrates the problem of producing one CMO energy that we currently derive from oil each year from five different alternative sources. Installing capacity to produce 1 CMO per year requires long and significant development.
Allowing fifty years to develop the requisite capacity, 1 CMO of energy per year could be produced by any one of these developments:
4 Three Gorges Dams,[14] developed each year for 50 years, or
52 nuclear power plants,[15] developed each year for 50 years, or
104 coal-fired power plants,[16] developed each year for 50 years, or
32,850 wind turbines,[17][18] developed each year for 50 years, or
91,250,000 rooftop solar photovoltaic panels[19] developed each year for 50 years
The world consumes approximately 3 CMO annually from all sources. The table [10] shows the small contribution from alternative energies in 2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_mile_of_oil
“To provide most of our power through renewables would take hundreds of times the amount of rare earth metals that we are mining today,” according to Thomas Graedel at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. So renewable energy resources like windmills and solar PV can not ever replace fossil fuels, there’s not enough of many essential minerals to scale this technology up. http://energyskeptic.com/2014/high-tech-cannot-last-rare-earth-metals/
So, what you are saying is that China is being smart by dominating the renewable industry today and building out as many renewables as possible before we do? And when fossil fuels start to run out, they will be the big winner who still has lots of power because they have most of the renewables.
So be long battery recycling companies.
And companies that bury windmill blades.
No that’s not what I am saying at all… I explain the purpose of ‘renewable energy’ and EVs here https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/the-three-pillars-of-bullshit
Solar and wind farms are actually a bad thing….the reason is intermittency …. they don’t provide electricity when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing…
Are you ok with having no power at night… or during periods of no sun and wind?
What about factories that make stuff… do they just stop producing during these periods?
Oh right – add batteries… that’s ok if you want to pay $500 per kwh… and where would all the materials to make the batteries come from?
Of course batteries degrade so you’d need to replace them at astronomical cost on a regular basis… say 10 yrs…
There is a solution – Germany has adopted this … they have built loads of coal powered plants to generate power … the thing is you cannot just switch one of these on when the sun goes down… they need to run 24/7…
Guess why Germany has some of the most expensive electricity on the planet
Guess why industries are shifting to Poland… which uses coal to generate electricity
Guess why the German economy is unravelling …
come on … go ahead… guess
hahahaahahahahahaha…. so you wake up every morning and suck on the cnnbbc teat right…
Renewable Energy’s $2.5 Trillion Problem https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611683/the-25-trillion-reason-we-cant-rely-on-batteries-to-clean-up-the-grid/
Large battery storage is a fake.
It implies that there is a back up for when the obviously inevitable lengthy power failures from wind and solar occur. Large battery storage is useful for grid management only…. basically to maintain electrical frequency stability issues that are required on the grid.
Multi billion dollar large batteries can deliver power for anywhere from two to four hours for their respective market depending on how many billions are spent on the system. ( a billion or considerably more per hour of capacity is a very rough ratio) And then when the grid is restored, they will be a high priority vampire sucking the first available energy to come on stream so they can recharge for emergency grid stability issues. And after twenty years they will be useless for their purpose.
Why is she talking about her plan? She has no plan. She didn’t even know she was running a month or so ago.
None of these guys have a plan. Lobbyist tell what they should do.
This. Exactly right.
Harris is really lousy at squirming out of stuff. She could say she didn’t support fracking in Ca because of water shortages and because all of the faults have splintered up the oil bearing shale grounds making it not very practical in Cali only but she supports it elsewhere where it’s far more lucrative and practical. Instead we get silly bs.
As meaningful as Obama’s ‘hope and change.’ What does it say about the populace?
The of course there is MAGA!!! Straight out of the same PR firm that coined Hope and Change.
Voting is for suckers.
I think people were talking about the need to make America great again in those exact words long before it became a party slogan. I never heard anyone express a desire to see more hope and change in those words before it became a party slogan.
Thinking about the practice of voting and not recognizing that perfection is the enemy of good is for suckers. I can assure you that the alternative absence of voting is dismal.
If you continue to vote in Federal elections it means you haven’t been paying attention.
Ya gotta give Kamala some credit…
as the most repulsive and dangerous woman in America’s political history, she’s giving even Hillary a run for her money.
Kamala’s says her values haven’t changed. But she says her policies have changed. So, apparently her policies are not derived from her values.
But wait!
Bernie had it right. She says what she says to win the election. Winning the election is her unchanged value. Her only value, apparently.
First you win, then you make policy. The morons will do what you tell them to do.
Most definitely https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/humans-barnyard-animals-and-circus/
Harris is a functional retard.
Her vocabulary totals less than 500 words. That’s a fact.
Poster child for DEI and BJ power.
The Men Who Run the World like their flunkies to be idiots … idiots take the money and do what they are told… Trump is no different https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/who-runs-the-world
Trump has only 3 clear economic ideas: (1) implement the largest sales tax increase in U.S. history to lower the trade deficit; (2) give the billions extracted from US consumers to his billionaire friends to stimulate growth; and (3) deport 15 million undocumented immigrants to lower housing prices. And you guys talk about EVs and fracking … those are toenail issues.
Those billionaires have a track record of growing businesses in order to become billionaires. Jose the lawn guy makes a meager living at best, and will pay next to nothing in taxes. The US has a future with people like Elon MUsk. Jose, not so much.
Elon Musk only makes money on EVs because of trade barriers and subsidies. And most of those billionaires, like Trump, make their billions in the non-tradable sectors where legalized corruption runs rampant. Jose at least does honest work.
No one asked Jose to come. Jose showed up without permission, is a net negative P&L requiring subsidies, and whose children get into UCLA and Berkeley with a 400 point SAT handicap over those children of legal citizens who have positive P&Ls. What other country would be so foolish?
You can tax investment or consumption.
Tax consumption and you get more investment and savings which are generally regarded as a good thing in their own right.
Tax investment and you get more consumption. That is only a good thing for that part of the economy built on consumption. Everything else in society suffers.
It is refreshing to see someone acknowledge that the eleven million illegal immigrants conceded as being in America as has been quoted for the last thirty years is no longer valid. It has increased to fifteen million, an increase of three million in the last thirty years or only one hundred thousand a year on average. And here I thought it was more, much more, much more every year. What a relief! Nothing to see there, time for me move on I guess.
Kamala has changed positions as much as P Diddy’s orgy players. A pet rock would at least be a solid candidate.
It’s true: Trump has never changed any of his positions. He was always a man devoted to one family and wife, a god-fearing church goer that studied the Bible every day, a man convinced that serving one’s country in war is honorable, a man opposed to racism and antisemitism in any form or shape, and a man that would never sow hate and division among his fellow Americans.
Harris and Trump are just being politicians. Promise everything to everyone to get the most votes. I mostly avoid listening to anything they say, but when I do hear something, I take it all as nonsense. I pay some attention to what politicians actually do. Which rarely matches what they say.
The same goes for mandates: easy to say; usually impossible to achieve; best to ignore.
Regarding climate change, energy and EVs, I often point to what our largest economic and military competitor is doing. It behooves us to pay attention to China.
China knows that the entire world runs on energy; the more energy that is produced, and consumed, the better off everyone in the world is; including in China.
China knows that they do not have enough fossil fuels to meet their own needs, so they must import a lot.
Coal: In 2023, China imported approximately 474.42 million tonnes of coal, marking a significant increase from previous years.
Oil: China imported around 11.3 million barrels per day of crude oil in 2023, which is about 10% more than in 2022.
Natural Gas: In 2023, China imported an average of 16.0 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas.
This is a strategic concern for China. Which is why they are working so hard to become more energy independent through renewables and nuclear: both of which are used to produce electricity. It is also why they are “electrifying” the country as much as possible. They have over 90,000 miles of railway track, 70% of which is electric; and over 20,000 miles of which is high speed electric (over 150 mph).
They sell more cars domestically than the US does and 37% of them are electric; EV and PHEV. And they could export huge quantities of these cars at low prices if the US and Europe didn’t put big tariffs on them.
They have successfully become the world’s dominant manufacturer of EVs, PHEVs, solar panels, windmills, batteries and rare earth metals. They know where the puck is going and they are planning on getting there first.
They already reached their 2030 goal of 1200 GW of renewable energy capacity this year. They now have targeted 2800 to 3000 GW of renewables by 2030. The US has 360 GW by comparison.
They are attempting to and succeeding in out-manoeuvring us badly in this area. Mish wrote a story recently about Ford discovering how far ahead China is in making EVs and PHEVs for half the price that we can do here.
That is because they have spent the last two decades building up their infrastructure and internal supply chains to be far more modern and efficient than ours. While our infrastructure that was built 70-100 years ago is falling apart. We can’t even begin to compete with them right now. And our feeble response is to apply tariffs so we can’t take advantage of the inexpensive steel, cars and renewables they can supply us with.
I do not expect Harris or Trump to do anything to make America more competitive again. But applying tariffs and protecting old, uncompetitive industries is certainly going to make things worse.
China also does NOT have the legacy costs of US companies, or the unions, or the regulations. Instead of building infrastructure, the US built its welfare programs, and created dependency on government. Vast monies are wasted on education run by incompetent teachers, effectively stopping an innovative future. Instead of bringing the world’s best brains to the US, we import uneducated low IQ people from the south. My expectation for the US long term is POOR.
BTW, what exactly, do you recommend the US do for steel when China takes Taiwan, and WW3 starts?
China is doomed https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/overcapacity-and-price-wars
Throw in the demographic problem where you have massive numbers of old people… and not enough young people to support them
Yes FastEddy. Everyone is doomed. As usual.
Moreover, China forced US companies to divulge their IP, trade secrets, and know-how to their local partners, allowing them to reduce their R&D burden and accelerate development. Not too bright of the US to do this in the long run…another example of lack of long term vision and strategy in the US vis a vis China, which plays chess not checkers.
“ China also does NOT have the legacy costs of US companies, or the unions, or the regulations. ”
Correct.
“ Instead of building infrastructure, the US built its welfare programs, and created dependency on government.”
Correct. China does not care as much about it’s poorest people. The US does. We spend over a trillion on assorted welfare programs. That’s more than our military budget. How much of this would you eliminate if you could?
“ Vast monies are wasted on education run by incompetent teachers, effectively stopping an innovative future.”
Mostly Incorrect. Of course there are some incompetent teachers, like any other profession. But you are over generalizing here. The US is the most innovative country the world has ever seen. We dominate the list of the world’s largest and most innovative companies. Our education system is certainly doing something right.
“ Instead of bringing the world’s best brains to the US, we import uneducated low IQ people from the south. My expectation for the US long term is POOR”
Mostly Incorrect. On average, the immigrants are more highly skilled and educated than the average US citizen.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/college-educated-immigrants-united-states
“BTW, what exactly, do you recommend the US do for steel when China takes Taiwan, and WW3 starts?”
I have no recommendation for WW3. Particularly if it’s nuclear. Steel won’t matter much then.
I agree with your first paragraph but can’t give you a like due to the second paragraph.
I’ve long wondered why we spend so much time and money helping and supporting the lower 20% of people worldwide? he vast majority of people are homeless or w/o a job or running with a credit score of 500 for choices that they made.
People in Africa, Gaza, etc. with 8 kids they can’t house or feed shouldn’t be given housing and handouts of food. That only encourages them to produce more kids that they can’t take care of. The only thing they deserve is birth control handouts.
If we want to distribute money and aid, it should be to people who are going to generate strong ROI, financially or socially. OTOH, the homeless, drug addicts, those with an IQ under 95, etc. will rarely generate any ROI
Promise everything then do what they are told by these guys https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/who-runs-the-world
Ah yes. Here comes the cult conspiracies. And we are all doomed. Again.
You truly are a moron.
What happened to your prediction last year that the Permian would run dry this year, forcing oil to $200 and causing the economy to crash and another great depression? I’m still waiting.
I ride a bicycle every chance I get, and I admit CO2 and methane. Just ask the spousal unit about the methane.
“Kamala Harris”
The federal $7,500 rebate in 2024 apply to : Lyriq, Blazer ev, F-150 Lightning, Honda Prologue. Model Y, Model 3 performance, Long Range, Model X and VW ID.4. Tesla sales are rising to a lower high bc Kamala might cancel the rebate.
If the next president kills the $7,500 rebate to cut the budget deficit and to hurt Ilan Tesla model Y sales will plunge.
The $7,500 don’t apply when buying Kia ev6, but a small portion of it apply if u lease it.
Nobody gives a shit about EV sales.
Battery tech is toxic garbage. End of conversation.
EXACTLY!!!!
Oh and they burn fossil fuels to generate the electricity … in China it’s almost exclusively coal…
Green … hahahahahaha
Strip the rebate and EV sales go to zero
Why should she comment with a RW media complex that will push criticise 24/7 no matter what she says. On EVs through market will solve the emissions “crisis” with solid state batteries and 500+ mile range. They should phase out tax credit and tarrifs and let them compete.
Excuse typos
Let’s pretend to be Global Warming TFIsTotal F789ing Idiots
https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/lets-pretend-to-be-global-warming
The sensible approach on EVs would be to allow Chinese brands to enter the market on a limited scale. Not only Jim Farley should experience driving one.
The American brands have left the consumer high and dry, they used covid and money printing to drive prices high, and keep them there.
You could call it Inflation Reduction Act.
Of course, none of the candidates would even talk about it.
After beepers blew up in Lebanon demand for ev will drop. Kamala’s pourhouse wouldn’t change voters mind.
Mossad hackers detonating entire cars with batteries like JDAMs. Ok, maybe NSA. Etc.
This would be fun! But imagine if NK, Russia or China did it?
Damn, I hope someone makes a movie with this!!
…..”which would require by 2040 that 100% of new passenger vehicle sales in the U.S. release no greenhouse gases.”
The absurdities are too numerous to mention:
On and on and on and ZERO PLANS coming from ZERO BRAIN-CELLED MORONS.
Keeping in mind the #1 greenhouse gas is CO2. and the #2 is water vapor, and without them every plant would be dead within a day. Shortly followed by every animal.
The good news, some people are finally beginning to realize that low CO2 actually means a dying planet, which is why a large part of the world is frozen waste or desert.
Anyone up for an intellectual challenge might enjoy reading:
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7418/4/3/17
I suspect this will be a groundbreaking paper in 10 years or so.
Warning, not recommended for global warmers.
She’s smart to tack to the center to the extent she can get away with it. Trump is suddenly softening on abortion and in favor of the SALT deduction.
Politicians pander to the extremists in their parties when they are running in the primaries and then move closer to the center for the general election. This is nothing new.
Very true.
Biden is a perfect example, except he forgot.
Operation Hide Her is working perfectly.
It helps that she’s lost already.
Now you’re making assumptions. Never a good idea to treat assumptions as facts.
…and I fear it work work perfectly, bc people believe what they want and will read into it what they hope.
Just like Biden hid in the basement. Same playbook, probably the same win/results.