tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post8618009035439815940..comments2024-03-20T02:13:42.947-05:00Comments on real economics: Tesla on solar powerJonathan Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05217670446743983955noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post-47077010753253436972012-10-06T11:58:42.005-05:002012-10-06T11:58:42.005-05:00Thanks Mike, I needed this.Thanks Mike, I needed this.Jonathan Larsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05217670446743983955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post-80931873614236520812012-10-06T10:42:56.430-05:002012-10-06T10:42:56.430-05:00Thank you for posting this. Unfortunately it does...Thank you for posting this. Unfortunately it does show how anti-intellectual and status quo our business leaders have become over the past especially the last 40 years.<br /><br />Our oligarchy has not only succeeded in poisoning political discussion, their minions in the media have convinced people to remain mired in their status quo while somehow simultaneously thinking everything that made America great did not involve taxes or government...when in fact it was the exact opposite, it was the R&D of the military and NASA, the infrastructure spending for roads and rail and air and rural electrification and oh good lord where do you stop once you start.<br /><br />And that includes energy--again, where do you stop if you start listing the govt subsidies that went into gas and oil and coal (all of which still receive subsidies) and NUCLEAR (good grief, nothing of nuclear would have existed if left for private industry to create and maintain it!). But even hydro was government subsidized.<br /><br />So then suddenly for wind and solar and geothermal...now suddenly private industry is supposed to create the entire industry AND compete with fully matured and still subsidized existing energy systems--the stupidity of such logic boggles the mind even without considering the health and environmental issues being put upon society by fossil fuels.<br /><br />But you guys already know all this and more, so I'll stop my rant. I'm sincerely saddened by the lack of intellectual honesty engaged in by our ruling oligarchy.<br /><br />Guys like the Koch Bros should have been laughed out of politics forty years ago...maybe they were, maybe that is why they have been so forceful in creating this full support of the belief-tank end-around of propaganda insanity business. Protected by a corrupted CIA/global "intelligence" cabal to diminish and discredit any sensible movement away from the protected oil and gas and mining interests, and here we are where a world teeters on self-destruction AND STILL they double down on the insanity.<br /><br />I need a walk.... But God bless your effects, keep fighting the good fight.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05252804186064393926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post-24290630688536315882012-10-05T13:33:36.963-05:002012-10-05T13:33:36.963-05:00Unfortunately, it's also classic "new&quo...Unfortunately, it's also classic "new" Democratic thinking. As in—even the "liberal" Washington Post believes that climate change is a minor topic that folks of good will still disagree about.Jonathan Larsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05217670446743983955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post-29975325963719711612012-10-05T09:32:37.177-05:002012-10-05T09:32:37.177-05:00That's classic Republican thinking. Can't ...That's classic Republican thinking. Can't understand why Republicans think this way about everything BUT energy policy.Mark Gislesonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05264508885194574116noreply@blogger.com