Well, if 90 percent of the Department of Energy budget is for fossil fuel incentives, and their budget is x amount, the math is fairly simple.
Based on the SEC filings of the energy firms I've owned thousands of shares in over the years, the exemptions and exclusions for tax "reasons" are way more than we're talking about. Depreciation itself is a massive amount of tax.
It's like asking "can we afford to have an acre for a garden" when you own a 4000 acre farm. The answer is, yes.
1. Expire all tax exemptions, tax exclusions, tax incentives, and tax depreciation for all fossil fuel infrastructure of any type.
2. Use funds from 1 and any tarrifs on China to fund US built solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and tidal energy capital investment (not operations, only construction) nationwide, including territories.
It's fairly simple to cut your individual emissions to about 1/10th of what they were. I personally cut mine to 1/20th, by some fairly simple measures. And, bizarrely, almost all of the actions taken SAVED ME MONEY.
Things like buying some solar panels in bulk (my house was built in 2000, so it can support solar panels and the electrical has to be able to deal with it. Replacing an old gas furnace with a more efficient two-phase one (the old one only had instant on full blast fans), replacing lightbulbs everywhere (dramatic drop from that, my new LEDs even include external floods that are way brighter than the old incandescent ones, but use 1/6th the energy, trick is to buy them in bulk when they have sales and replace from the ones left on the most to the ones used the least), new fridge/stove/washer/dryer (pro tip: buy the most efficient one, even if you don't get a discount from your utility, surprised how much that saved.
We can rapidly remove all tax exemptions, deductions, and exclusions for all fossil fuel infrastructure. It's about 90 percent of the DOE budget. And create jobs - solar and wind combine very well for a good power curve, and they create a lot of local jobs and income stream for farmers and ranchers. Just covering irrigation canals with solar panels reduces evaporation and reduces salt impact on your crops.
We fought both the Nazis and Japan in WW II. We can easily do this.
Quarterly results are frequently fudged, using invalid booking dates on inventory, counting units sold when they were only received at a retail store and not booking returns until the next quarter. Most people realize this can be true, and tend to use year over year metrics instead.
Markets react to information, but perception can be slightly altered through such tricks. Eventually the market participants catch on and adjust, of course.
One quarter is not a trend. Three quarters might be a trend.
I've noticed a number of posts recently by people unfamiliar with the country they are posting news about, where they use non-standard methods to describe it.
In Canada, one refers to them as Bell Canada.
On a related note, there is a vast difference between the University of Columbia and Columbia University.
Oh, that explains why Neilsen phoned me. They are rolling out something similar, but apparently they want households with land lines and a teen with an Android phone.
Look, you set the price too high. Just shift the price lower on the curve, and you can maximize your profit.
In a time when you're flooding the market with $1000 phones, reconsider your original $500 price point. You'll see that unit sales of the $800 version are ok, and the $500 model is doing very well, so you know you need to fire your marketing and sales teams who skipped out on basic accounting and economics classes.
Technically, this is not correct. Many people with phones are tagging you in pictures, correlating your purchases with theirs, and their home "ring" cameras are illegally recording you in public places, dumping it all into a database, which correlates with your facial recognition data and walk/stride patterns.
In the US and Canada it's also used against you, but they pretend that corporations actually care about consumers, when the consumers are actually the product, and treated only as a profit center.
Myco packaging is a very good replacement for styrofoam, in that it can be grown and composted. There are other biofilm materials, both vegetable fiber (for "plastic" wraps) and algae-based (for food wrapping).
Urine bricks, combined with seashells (which literally absorb carbon from the air in water (yes, there is air there, what do you think fish breathe)), have a bonus or removing toxics from the environment while carbon storing.
CLT methods for building replace emission-creating materials and glues with carbon-storing materials and glues. Again, there are some glues that are foresty, mycofarming, and algal based.
Most of the cost is the artificial subsidy for plastic and fossil fuel pollution built into the system, where we only calculate the Goods and not the Bads in GDP. Classical Capitalism, as done by Adam Smith, who created it, calculates both Goods and Bads in all levels of production and consumption and cleanup.
Um, spear throwing sticks have existed for a very very long time, and precede humans leaving Africa, so I don't see why Neanderthals couldn't have them too.
Unfortunately, 100 percent of occupations held by billionaires and investment capitalists are subject to automation, but they could always retrain as guillotine blade sharpeners and other useful occupations, if need be.
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Well, if 90 percent of the Department of Energy budget is for fossil fuel incentives, and their budget is x amount, the math is fairly simple.
Based on the SEC filings of the energy firms I've owned thousands of shares in over the years, the exemptions and exclusions for tax "reasons" are way more than we're talking about. Depreciation itself is a massive amount of tax.
It's like asking "can we afford to have an acre for a garden" when you own a 4000 acre farm. The answer is, yes.
1. Expire all tax exemptions, tax exclusions, tax incentives, and tax depreciation for all fossil fuel infrastructure of any type.
2. Use funds from 1 and any tarrifs on China to fund US built solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and tidal energy capital investment (not operations, only construction) nationwide, including territories.
Problem solved.
The data holes go in before the counter-spies find the spy holes.
It's a feature, not a bug.
P.S. Yes, he looks like Charlie Brown.
It's fairly simple to cut your individual emissions to about 1/10th of what they were. I personally cut mine to 1/20th, by some fairly simple measures. And, bizarrely, almost all of the actions taken SAVED ME MONEY.
Things like buying some solar panels in bulk (my house was built in 2000, so it can support solar panels and the electrical has to be able to deal with it. Replacing an old gas furnace with a more efficient two-phase one (the old one only had instant on full blast fans), replacing lightbulbs everywhere (dramatic drop from that, my new LEDs even include external floods that are way brighter than the old incandescent ones, but use 1/6th the energy, trick is to buy them in bulk when they have sales and replace from the ones left on the most to the ones used the least), new fridge/stove/washer/dryer (pro tip: buy the most efficient one, even if you don't get a discount from your utility, surprised how much that saved.
We can rapidly remove all tax exemptions, deductions, and exclusions for all fossil fuel infrastructure. It's about 90 percent of the DOE budget. And create jobs - solar and wind combine very well for a good power curve, and they create a lot of local jobs and income stream for farmers and ranchers. Just covering irrigation canals with solar panels reduces evaporation and reduces salt impact on your crops.
We fought both the Nazis and Japan in WW II. We can easily do this.
Better analogy would be Nazi cold exposure science.
I think you mean Japanese cold exposure science. Nazis also did their own, but most of the people experimented on were Chinese prisoners of war.
It always puts those in my spam folder, which it hides so I don't realize it put them there.
Other than that, it works fairly well.
I feel sorry for legitimate salespeople trying to sell you stuff personally, though.
Bell Canada would have been clear to anyone, but Canada's Telco Bell doesn't make any fucking sense.
I'll take a Telco Bell with a side of timbits.
A base pay of $15/hour is so last year.
Look, we know what power systems are resilient to attack and survive physical and internet attacks:
Renewable microgrids.
Naming old grid providers only provides rogue nation states and their kaiju hacker mercs with targets.
That said, give them 90 days and start jailing their senior execs. Fines won't work.
Quarterly results are frequently fudged, using invalid booking dates on inventory, counting units sold when they were only received at a retail store and not booking returns until the next quarter. Most people realize this can be true, and tend to use year over year metrics instead.
Markets react to information, but perception can be slightly altered through such tricks. Eventually the market participants catch on and adjust, of course.
One quarter is not a trend. Three quarters might be a trend.
I've noticed a number of posts recently by people unfamiliar with the country they are posting news about, where they use non-standard methods to describe it.
In Canada, one refers to them as Bell Canada.
On a related note, there is a vast difference between the University of Columbia and Columbia University.
The market doesn't owe them a premium. Markets don't care about what you "expect". They just are.
Personal computers, like my original Apple II+, used to cost $4000. Nowadays you can get a high powered laptop for around $150.
Oh, that explains why Neilsen phoned me. They are rolling out something similar, but apparently they want households with land lines and a teen with an Android phone.
At least I got $3 in cash (bills) for my time.
Look, you set the price too high. Just shift the price lower on the curve, and you can maximize your profit.
In a time when you're flooding the market with $1000 phones, reconsider your original $500 price point. You'll see that unit sales of the $800 version are ok, and the $500 model is doing very well, so you know you need to fire your marketing and sales teams who skipped out on basic accounting and economics classes.
Technically, this is not correct. Many people with phones are tagging you in pictures, correlating your purchases with theirs, and their home "ring" cameras are illegally recording you in public places, dumping it all into a database, which correlates with your facial recognition data and walk/stride patterns.
You're being tracked too.
In the US and Canada it's also used against you, but they pretend that corporations actually care about consumers, when the consumers are actually the product, and treated only as a profit center.
Myco packaging is a very good replacement for styrofoam, in that it can be grown and composted. There are other biofilm materials, both vegetable fiber (for "plastic" wraps) and algae-based (for food wrapping).
Urine bricks, combined with seashells (which literally absorb carbon from the air in water (yes, there is air there, what do you think fish breathe)), have a bonus or removing toxics from the environment while carbon storing.
CLT methods for building replace emission-creating materials and glues with carbon-storing materials and glues. Again, there are some glues that are foresty, mycofarming, and algal based.
Most of the cost is the artificial subsidy for plastic and fossil fuel pollution built into the system, where we only calculate the Goods and not the Bads in GDP. Classical Capitalism, as done by Adam Smith, who created it, calculates both Goods and Bads in all levels of production and consumption and cleanup.
Russia appreciates your LiveJournal nod.
How quaint.
Um, spear throwing sticks have existed for a very very long time, and precede humans leaving Africa, so I don't see why Neanderthals couldn't have them too.
With those you get a very long range.
And end all fossil fuel depreciation, exemptions, exclusions, and subsidies.
Everywhere.
In our State Constitution.
As does the entire nation of Canada.
And most of the EU.
Ooh, going to be a lot of suits.
Unfortunately, 100 percent of occupations held by billionaires and investment capitalists are subject to automation, but they could always retrain as guillotine blade sharpeners and other useful occupations, if need be.
But those execs are in the Human Plastic Show right now.
I hear they also used bathrooms. Obviously we need to not let people use bathrooms, as it may cause AD.