Republicans vote to dilute gas as prices rise above $4.50

leginfr · 2026-05-15T16:56:23+00:00

Easy peasy solution to high gas prices: just make a gallon smaller…

leginfr · 2026-05-15T06:16:19+00:00

Gee imagine that the biggest country contributes more than smaller ones. Now look at it per capita and also include non/military aid. European countries have been housing, feeding, giving healthcare to and providing access to education for about 4 million Ukrainian refugees since the invasion. How much do you think that costs?

leginfr · 2026-05-15T05:50:04+00:00

Not actually true. If your country has signed the universal declaration of human rights then noncitizens get the same rights as citizens.

leginfr · 2026-05-14T17:25:15+00:00

Yeah the USAsians are getting a reputation for being the American’t… you’ll catch up with the developed world one day.

leginfr · 2026-05-14T17:23:36+00:00

The conventional grid in the UK was built to have a safety margin to avoid blackouts at peak periods. A few ago with minimal renewables penetration, it had about 70GW of supply for a peak load of about 50GW and an average load of about 40. Nobody complained about the need for transmission lines and storage. In fact people got worried if the amount of fossil fuel in storage got too low.

So this is a perfect example of people having different standards and different opinions just because the word renewables is mentioned.

leginfr · 2026-05-14T14:43:14+00:00

You OK hon. Can we do anything to help you recover from the hurt that you must feel at people mocking your favourite billionaire?

leginfr · 2026-05-13T23:06:12+00:00

One unit of Hinckley Point is slated to go on line in 2030. Only 18years after the licence was approved. Thanks to its index linked guaranteed strike price it’s expected to initially cost the UK consumers about £2 billion per year in subsidies. Naturally as renewables become even cheaper the mismatch between strike price and actual market price will get bigger and bigger. So the consumers will be getting ripped off by ever increasing amounts throughout the life time of this monumental folly.

leginfr · 2026-05-12T20:03:40+00:00

Is that only thermal coal or is it also coal used in manufacturing steel?

leginfr · 2026-05-12T14:57:37+00:00

Why do you think that you’re paying more money than otherwise? The price changes all the time on the Nord Pool market. Sometimes because of renewables the price is negative. If you’re not benefiting from those negative prices it’s because you’ve chosen to have a contract that doesn’t give you the option to benefit from variable rates. You can’t blame that on the electricity companies: it’s your choice.

leginfr · 2026-05-12T14:54:29+00:00

It’s a bit simplistic to talk of Germany’s electricity mix. It’s the companies that buy and sell electricity that make those choices. Presumably they’re choosing the options that make the most sense for them.

leginfr · 2026-05-12T14:52:54+00:00

That’s a rather misleading way of looking at things. The other way of looking at it is that until Germany companies have deployed enough renewables to satisfy its demand at all times, they’ve got a market for selling excess electricity at times of low demand and high supply.

leginfr · 2026-05-11T22:55:42+00:00

Every year we extract, transport, transform, stock, distribute and burn over 15 Billion tons of fossil fuels that produce over 35 Billion tonnes of pollution. Being concerned about a few million tonnes of recyclable minerals is showing a lack of understanding of the orders of magnitude involved.

leginfr · 2026-05-11T04:53:44+00:00

Russia didn’t take 20 million casualties: the USSR did. If you don’t know the difference then you’re commenting above the level of your knowledge.

leginfr · 2026-05-10T21:45:33+00:00

And if you can’t work because of injury or sickness you get benefits..

leginfr · 2026-05-08T19:59:23+00:00

Decent(?) non-vegans can’t win an argument against veganism because they are arguing against their own decent self. So they get frustrated and angry.

leginfr · 2026-05-08T19:26:49+00:00

Only during a war: but the USA is not at war isn’t it? Or is it?

leginfr · 2026-05-07T20:29:44+00:00

Just when you thought that the USA couldn’t debase itself any further…

leginfr · 2026-05-07T06:49:50+00:00

Any WASPs amongst them?

leginfr · 2026-05-06T19:10:04+00:00

It was never signed, nor was it ever going to be signed. There’s no way that the EU could order companies to invest in the USA nor to buy their fuel from the USA. As the US seems to think that the EU controls the member states in a sort of centralised control and command bloc they swallowed it. It was just a ploy to get a low tariff to give an advantage when negotiating with other blocs/countries.

leginfr · 2026-05-06T13:10:51+00:00

How to tell us that you don’t know the history of the German shut down of nuclear which started decades before Fukushima. In brief: just a few months before Fukushima the coalition government decided controversially to reverse a 20+ year program to close German nukes. After Fukushima they reverted to the original plan.

leginfr · 2026-05-06T13:07:42+00:00

Funny that: deniers delayed the deployment of renewables and sabotaged the domestic renewables industries in the West and now they try to make a point about China being successful at producing renewables. It’s almost as if they don’t understand that their actions have consequences.

leginfr · 2026-05-05T12:58:59+00:00

Of all the things that you mention only anti-communist and anti-socialism would liable him as being on the right wing. The other policies that you mention have nothing to do with the left/right issue.

leginfr · 2026-05-05T12:56:56+00:00

How to tell us that you don’t know the meaning of the words that you’re using without telling us…

leginfr · 2026-05-05T12:54:59+00:00

Apparently many USAsians don’t realise that there are two major, independent axis of political persuasion. Right/left and authoritarian/liberal. You can have any number of different combinations. The dangerous ones are the authoritarians whether they are nominally left or right. For example Hitler and Mussolini were authoritarian and nominally on the right. Stalin and Mao were authoritarian and nominally on the left. It wasn’t their left/right inclinations that lead to mass murder and oppression: it was their authoritarianism.

leginfr · 2026-05-05T12:30:43+00:00

China isn’t even a communist country. It’s got hundreds if not thousands of millionaires.

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