Actually, you are wrong. For example, Brazil, China, South Africa, Poland, South Korea, and India STILL have loads of tariffs in place. In fact, when Clinton cut the FTA with China, China had in less than 90. Now, they have over 400. When it comes to money manipulation, you will see nearly all of Asia doing loads of manipulation, but even mexico and EU do it.
And yes, it is not only smart, but needed. It is actually stupid that such trade deficits exists. It actually harms all of the nations that have large trade imbalance. Now, considering EU's position, I doubt that we would impose a large tariff on EU. We want you folks to pull out of your situation. HOWEVER, it is insane that we have such a horrible trade deficit. It helps neither of us.
I would have modded you up, had it not been myself that did this originally. China is the large problem. They are a developed nation that wants to act like an undeveloped while using economy against the west. Smart on their part, since the leadership is in a cold war with the west.
What is interesting is that WTO's rules allow us to do this tariff. Turns out that if a nation has more than 10% trade deficit, then they can put tariffs against that nation. Now, in the past, it has been allow about product lines, but I think that this is better. By putting up a scaled tariff , and getting nations on an even keel, it helps all.
This is actually not about just currency manipulation. There are other ways to block trade. This is about the fact that trade is not fully 2 ways. Also, you will note that if we trade with a nation that has more than 10% deficit with us, I would rather see them put up a scaled tariff and get the trade to balance a bit. It actually makes sense that we want to have nations be somewhat close.
Well, lets see. Last time it was massive protectionism against all nations based on product lines. Now, we are talking about tariffs on all products from nations that manipulate. As the trade between the 2 nations have come back into line, the tariffs drop. Simple and easy way to solve things.
as to taxing those companies, they simply move their HQs. Issue solved for them.
So, by YOUR definition, the solution for the TRADE deficit (which has shipped massive number of jobs to China), is to instead focus on our federal deficit?
And PER WTO agreements, once trade is differentiated by 10%, then it is permitted to do this. IOW, this is not only legal, but SMART to do.
If nothing else, think about it this way: How smart is it to help drive large partners into the ground by blocking YOUR markets? I would say that it is a mistake. And yes, Germany DOES have blocks in the way.
This would not only restore manufacturing, but it would also improve our tax base, rather quickly. Finally, it would force nations that we have supposed open markets with that manipulate against us to change their behaviors.
So, for our top 20 nations that we trade with, this would punish the following:
China - 36%
Venezuela - 28%
Italy - 25%
Germany - 24%
India - 22%
Japan - 16%
South Africa - 14%
Mexico - 13%
France - 12%
Taiwan - 8%
While giving other nations like Canada a pass:
Argentina,
Australia,
Belgium,
Brazil,
Canada,
Hong Kong,
Luxembourg,
Netherlands,
Singapore,
South Korea,
United Kingdom
Interestingly, this is legal PER WTO. WTO's position is that when a nation's trade deficit is larger than 10% with another, than you may take action.
The trick here is to convince the neo-cons that are attached to China's pants to let go and back America instead. Right now, far too many neo-cons are the ones blocking efforts at a balanced trade. In addition, without a budget deficit below 500 billion (or so), this probably becomes impossible to do.
There is an easier way to equate. The model S is going to do about 160 miles on a charge with the 40 KWH pack. That means that it is getting about 4 miles / KWH. At.11/ KWH, that means that it will costs $1.1 to run 40 miles. Well, a car that get 40 mpg will cost 1 gal of gas, or between $3-4 in the USA.
Now, in light of Iran and the threats, do you think that prices are going to go or down? My guess is that by 1.5 years, the price for gas will be closer to $5/gal. And yet, the price for electricity will have gone up what,.02/KWH?
The fact is, that electrical cars make a lot of sense esp. for EU, and the coastal USA, as well as any cities in America. Most American familes own 2 cars. It makes good sense to buy electric when you go to buy a new one, but hang on to a gas burner for the other one.
Other than the motor, which is from UQM in Colorado, EVERYTHING from it is Chinese. The Chinese are watching to see if CODA can sell. If so, they are going to simply rip it off, produce it by multiple companies there, and then dump here to destroy CODA.
Actually, few of Toyota or Honda are even close to 100% made here. That is why when Japan was hit by the tsunami, All Japanese plants outside of Japan came to a crawl. Probably the most American made is Tesla Model S. Other than the lithium and some of the electronics, allmost all of it is from America. And the Lithium is about to be from USA as well within 2 years.
In the USA, 44% of our power is from Coal, and that is dropping fast. Less than 25% of our power comes from NG, with 20% from Nukes, 1% oil and the rest is AE.
As such, electric cars are MUCH cleaner than oil to run. In addition, they use LOCAL fuel, as opposed to supporting terrorists.
Not even close to being true. The average cost in America for electricity is around.11/kwh. The transmission costs, are rarely variable, but fixed. That way, it can be broken out. OTH, when the transmission costs are variable, they are rolled into the costs. And transmission costs are less than.02/kwh. In addition, a number of electric companies give price breaks for charging in the middle of the night.
Even with that,.33 KWH is still less than $3/gal gas. And I doubt that we will see 3/gal gas.
The car is made in China. All that CODA does is install a UQM motor (American made with Chinese parts), Chinese made electronics and a chinese made battery.
This car is 99% Chinese.
Americans and westerners simply need to stop buying Apple products. That is esp. true of the American and EU gov. Likewise, if the western gov. will insist on secured products the way that China does (i.e. ONLY produced in their nation), then we will see things change.
I wonder if there is some interesting repercussions on this as a way to restart their magnetic sphere. Perhaps it would be possible to pass electricity through its core and get a field.
Derek,
Sending up small amounts is now accepted. Sending up the amount needed for NERVA would drive the same group that objected to the IFR batty. ANd yes, they would protest.
But there is a simple solution. Send up a small processing/breeder unit to space, and then send up safe uranium. At that point, it gets bred to plutonium and allowed to be used.
I wonder if a NERVA can be used to land on the moon? If so, that would become a truck. I noticed that Japan found Uranium on the surface, though quantity was unknown.
who says that you have to hit the sun? Just let it fall slowly to the sun. Ideally, it can transmit information for a LONG LONG TIME as it heads there. Nothing better than allowing it to be a long life sat while on its way to oblivion.
You have to be kidding. Far easier to point it at the sun and go in, or simply point it retrograde, slow down speed relative to earth and allow the sun to pull it in to either venus, mercury or itself.
Nope. Chernobyl is where you want to go. However, if doing something like NERVA, I will be happy to have it tested in my state. After all, it was designed here. The fact is, that NERVA is exceptionally safe.
nope. Not from a treaty POV. We send up reactors all the time. NERVA has ZERO issue going. Orion is a different matter. Those are technically bombs on there. The treaties prevent that from going to space, though I suspect that if we got ALL of the signatories to agree to it, we could do it. And I have serious doubt that we could get that, except when an asteroid or some other major threat were in-bound to earth (and in light of how America's CONgress is acting, I would guess that even with a massive alien invasion coming in, that we would get a number of nations or even extremists that would object to orion).
Sigh.
Ok, a VASIMR (a type of an ion engine) can drive an ion out at high speeds. HOWEVER, where does it get the energy to accelerate the ion from? Obviously from a generator or a solar collector. The problem with the solar collector is that not only does it add drag, it does not work as you get further and further from the sun. So, that leaves a nuke reactor. How much does it weigh? A lot. The real problem is one of efficiency and the fact that it will break down. To get electricity, you had to convert an element to steam and then run an engine that turns a generator. All of that is not just a loss of efficiency, but something that WILL burn out down the road. 50 years is a LONG TIME TO LAST.
Instead, it is far far better to simply use the nuke reaction to heat hydrogen to use it as a propellant. This is not just simpler in terms of mechanics. It is also a great deal more efficient. In fact, comparing NERVA to Orion, I will take NERVA. Again, it is simpler design. Simple wins for long term issues.
The problem is that we have so many left wingers that are gaga over the idea of nukes being launched into space. Yet, we could easily put up a small processing plant on either the moon or even in space, and simply send a safe form of Uranium up there to be processed and bred.
Actually, we did. From 30's through to early 80's, we pushed the boundaries of science hard. It made America what it was. Then it got stifled. By both sides. Our fear of nukes is irrational.
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Actually, you are wrong. For example, Brazil, China, South Africa, Poland, South Korea, and India STILL have loads of tariffs in place. In fact, when Clinton cut the FTA with China, China had in less than 90. Now, they have over 400. When it comes to money manipulation, you will see nearly all of Asia doing loads of manipulation, but even mexico and EU do it.
And yes, it is not only smart, but needed. It is actually stupid that such trade deficits exists. It actually harms all of the nations that have large trade imbalance. Now, considering EU's position, I doubt that we would impose a large tariff on EU. We want you folks to pull out of your situation. HOWEVER, it is insane that we have such a horrible trade deficit. It helps neither of us.
I would have modded you up, had it not been myself that did this originally. China is the large problem. They are a developed nation that wants to act like an undeveloped while using economy against the west. Smart on their part, since the leadership is in a cold war with the west.
What is interesting is that WTO's rules allow us to do this tariff. Turns out that if a nation has more than 10% trade deficit, then they can put tariffs against that nation. Now, in the past, it has been allow about product lines, but I think that this is better. By putting up a scaled tariff , and getting nations on an even keel, it helps all.
This is actually not about just currency manipulation. There are other ways to block trade. This is about the fact that trade is not fully 2 ways. Also, you will note that if we trade with a nation that has more than 10% deficit with us, I would rather see them put up a scaled tariff and get the trade to balance a bit. It actually makes sense that we want to have nations be somewhat close.
Well, lets see. Last time it was massive protectionism against all nations based on product lines. Now, we are talking about tariffs on all products from nations that manipulate. As the trade between the 2 nations have come back into line, the tariffs drop. Simple and easy way to solve things.
as to taxing those companies, they simply move their HQs. Issue solved for them.
So, by YOUR definition, the solution for the TRADE deficit (which has shipped massive number of jobs to China), is to instead focus on our federal deficit? And PER WTO agreements, once trade is differentiated by 10%, then it is permitted to do this. IOW, this is not only legal, but SMART to do.
If nothing else, think about it this way: How smart is it to help drive large partners into the ground by blocking YOUR markets? I would say that it is a mistake. And yes, Germany DOES have blocks in the way.
This would not only restore manufacturing, but it would also improve our tax base, rather quickly. Finally, it would force nations that we have supposed open markets with that manipulate against us to change their behaviors.
So, for our top 20 nations that we trade with, this would punish the following:
While giving other nations like Canada a pass:
Interestingly, this is legal PER WTO. WTO's position is that when a nation's trade deficit is larger than 10% with another, than you may take action.
The trick here is to convince the neo-cons that are attached to China's pants to let go and back America instead. Right now, far too many neo-cons are the ones blocking efforts at a balanced trade. In addition, without a budget deficit below 500 billion (or so), this probably becomes impossible to do.
There is an easier way to equate. The model S is going to do about 160 miles on a charge with the 40 KWH pack. That means that it is getting about 4 miles / KWH. At .11/ KWH, that means that it will costs $1.1 to run 40 miles. Well, a car that get 40 mpg will cost 1 gal of gas, or between $3-4 in the USA.
.02/KWH?
Now, in light of Iran and the threats, do you think that prices are going to go or down? My guess is that by 1.5 years, the price for gas will be closer to $5/gal. And yet, the price for electricity will have gone up what,
The fact is, that electrical cars make a lot of sense esp. for EU, and the coastal USA, as well as any cities in America. Most American familes own 2 cars. It makes good sense to buy electric when you go to buy a new one, but hang on to a gas burner for the other one.
Stuff like this is more like National Enquirer, Fox news and pravda, than /.
Other than the motor, which is from UQM in Colorado, EVERYTHING from it is Chinese. The Chinese are watching to see if CODA can sell. If so, they are going to simply rip it off, produce it by multiple companies there, and then dump here to destroy CODA.
Actually, few of Toyota or Honda are even close to 100% made here. That is why when Japan was hit by the tsunami, All Japanese plants outside of Japan came to a crawl. Probably the most American made is Tesla Model S. Other than the lithium and some of the electronics, allmost all of it is from America. And the Lithium is about to be from USA as well within 2 years.
In the USA, 44% of our power is from Coal, and that is dropping fast. Less than 25% of our power comes from NG, with 20% from Nukes, 1% oil and the rest is AE.
As such, electric cars are MUCH cleaner than oil to run. In addition, they use LOCAL fuel, as opposed to supporting terrorists.
Not even close to being true. The average cost in America for electricity is around .11/kwh. The transmission costs, are rarely variable, but fixed. That way, it can be broken out. OTH, when the transmission costs are variable, they are rolled into the costs. And transmission costs are less than .02/kwh. In addition, a number of electric companies give price breaks for charging in the middle of the night.
.33 KWH is still less than $3/gal gas. And I doubt that we will see 3/gal gas.
Even with that,
The car is made in China. All that CODA does is install a UQM motor (American made with Chinese parts), Chinese made electronics and a chinese made battery.
This car is 99% Chinese.
Americans and westerners simply need to stop buying Apple products. That is esp. true of the American and EU gov. Likewise, if the western gov. will insist on secured products the way that China does (i.e. ONLY produced in their nation), then we will see things change.
I wonder if there is some interesting repercussions on this as a way to restart their magnetic sphere. Perhaps it would be possible to pass electricity through its core and get a field.
Derek,
Sending up small amounts is now accepted. Sending up the amount needed for NERVA would drive the same group that objected to the IFR batty. ANd yes, they would protest.
But there is a simple solution. Send up a small processing/breeder unit to space, and then send up safe uranium. At that point, it gets bred to plutonium and allowed to be used.
I wonder if a NERVA can be used to land on the moon? If so, that would become a truck. I noticed that Japan found Uranium on the surface, though quantity was unknown.
who says that you have to hit the sun? Just let it fall slowly to the sun. Ideally, it can transmit information for a LONG LONG TIME as it heads there. Nothing better than allowing it to be a long life sat while on its way to oblivion.
You have to be kidding. Far easier to point it at the sun and go in, or simply point it retrograde, slow down speed relative to earth and allow the sun to pull it in to either venus, mercury or itself.
Nope. Chernobyl is where you want to go. However, if doing something like NERVA, I will be happy to have it tested in my state. After all, it was designed here. The fact is, that NERVA is exceptionally safe.
oops. I should have read yours first. You are correct.
nope. Not from a treaty POV. We send up reactors all the time. NERVA has ZERO issue going. Orion is a different matter. Those are technically bombs on there. The treaties prevent that from going to space, though I suspect that if we got ALL of the signatories to agree to it, we could do it. And I have serious doubt that we could get that, except when an asteroid or some other major threat were in-bound to earth (and in light of how America's CONgress is acting, I would guess that even with a massive alien invasion coming in, that we would get a number of nations or even extremists that would object to orion).
This was already shown that the drag from the magnetic scoop was more than the energy that was derived from the particles. IOW, no.
Sigh.
Ok, a VASIMR (a type of an ion engine) can drive an ion out at high speeds. HOWEVER, where does it get the energy to accelerate the ion from? Obviously from a generator or a solar collector. The problem with the solar collector is that not only does it add drag, it does not work as you get further and further from the sun. So, that leaves a nuke reactor. How much does it weigh? A lot. The real problem is one of efficiency and the fact that it will break down. To get electricity, you had to convert an element to steam and then run an engine that turns a generator. All of that is not just a loss of efficiency, but something that WILL burn out down the road. 50 years is a LONG TIME TO LAST.
Instead, it is far far better to simply use the nuke reaction to heat hydrogen to use it as a propellant. This is not just simpler in terms of mechanics. It is also a great deal more efficient. In fact, comparing NERVA to Orion, I will take NERVA. Again, it is simpler design. Simple wins for long term issues.
The problem is that we have so many left wingers that are gaga over the idea of nukes being launched into space. Yet, we could easily put up a small processing plant on either the moon or even in space, and simply send a safe form of Uranium up there to be processed and bred.
Actually, we did. From 30's through to early 80's, we pushed the boundaries of science hard. It made America what it was. Then it got stifled. By both sides. Our fear of nukes is irrational.