Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-07-03 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
The article actually covers revisionists of various political types. Of course people in more populous states will tend to feel put out by the Senate. But the fundamental changes in population distribution since the document was written are rather profound, as the piece states. I rather enjoyed

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-07-03 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
The NIH question is germane to the central discussion of whether the government should fund research on anything not expressly laid out in the constitution, e.g. solar power, and why or why not. On Jul 3, 2017 6:19 AM, "Curley McLain via Mercedes" wrote: who started the

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-07-03 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
> On July 3, 2017 at 9:09 AM Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes > wrote: > > FYI since the constutution's relevance to government subsidies came up, an > interesting article Toobin wrote back in 2013. Interesting to read today: > >

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-07-03 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
who started the tangent with NIH funding? Paraphrasing Winston Churchill: those who, in their youth, are not liberal, have no heart. Those who, in maturity, are not conservative, have no brain Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes wrote: Public support for solar energy is at least tangentially

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-07-03 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
cedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Karl > Wittnebel via Mercedes > Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2017 6:03 AM > To: mercedes@okiebenz com <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Karl Wittnebel <atypical...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again) > > Let me get

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2017-07-02 Thread Scott Ritchey via Mercedes
f Karl > Wittnebel via Mercedes > Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2017 6:03 AM > To: mercedes@okiebenz com <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Karl Wittnebel <atypical...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again) > > Let me get this straight. You are saying the NIH shou

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2017-07-01 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Can I get an "AMEN?" fmiser via Mercedes July 1, 2017 at 1:50 PM Karl wrote: Let me get this straight. You are saying the NIH should not be funding biomedical research, because of a document written in the 18th century? YES! No matter when it was

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-07-01 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
I see the reality. Just drove by a huge concrete plant in the middle of nothing but fields. Then I saw a driveway freshly cut into a field, them more of them. Soon dozens of these fields look like crop circles where they are going to plant hundreds of new wind turbines paid for with billions

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2017-07-01 Thread fmiser via Mercedes
> > > Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes wrote: > > > > > > The federal government spends money on lots of things that > > > are not immediately profitable. That is pretty much the role > > > of the governmen > > Curley wrote: > > > > Please quote to me the part of the constitution that empowers > >

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2017-07-01 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
"Curley" lives in the no. 1 wind power state. How come you're so anti-renewable? On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 10:37 AM, Mountain Man via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Curley wrote: > > Even the illegal drug market is distorted by goobers. > > More ECONOMICS... correction. > The goobers

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-07-01 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Curley wrote: > Even the illegal drug market is distorted by goobers. More ECONOMICS... correction. The goobers OWN the illegal drug market... according to some conspiracy folk. These days the History channel documentary is exposing this to the masses. Interesting stuff that even back in to the

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-07-01 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Curt Raymond July 1, 2017 at 8:03 AM What part of the constitution instructs the government to collect data on your phone usage? NONE! What part authorizes Air Force 1? What part tells our government to have the largest military on the planet? AH! THERE you

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-07-01 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Oooh, can we apply that to military pork? -Curt From: Meade Dillon via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: Meade Dillon <dillonm...@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, July 1, 2017 7:56 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-07-01 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: Curley McLain <126die...@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, July 1, 2017 4:56 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again) Please quote to me the part of the constitution that empowers the

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-07-01 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
09 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again) Bzzt!  Solar and wind are NOT sustainable without the goobermnt robbing us to prop up wind and solar. Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > Solar and wind are part of a sustainable mix and will make our non-renewable > energy sources last muc

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2017-07-01 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Correct, they should not fund NIH, unless it can be done constitutionally under the heading of national security / defense. Anything other spending should probably require a national referendum vote to approve the funding, which expires annually and requires another national referendum vote to

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-07-01 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
Let me get this straight. You are saying the NIH should not be funding biomedical research, because of a document written in the 18th century? On Jul 1, 2017 1:56 AM, "Curley McLain via Mercedes" wrote: Please quote to me the part of the constitution that empowers the

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-07-01 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
Yes, the point I am making is that it is proper for the government to subsidize technology development. On Jul 1, 2017 1:59 AM, "Curley McLain via Mercedes" wrote: What 'lektrick car is on the market that is not subsidized or incentivized by some gooberment? You are

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-07-01 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
What 'lektrick car is on the market that is not subsidized or incentivized by some gooberment? You are making my point that it is NOT market forces that are putting Lektrick cars on the market. Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes July 1, 2017 at 3:28 AM I think

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-07-01 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Please quote to me the part of the constitution that empowers the federal goobermnt to do this? Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes wrote: The federal government spends money on lots of things that are not immediately profitable. That is pretty much the role of the government. All powers not

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-07-01 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
I think lithium batteries and better battery management software are the major difference now. On Jun 30, 2017 9:45 AM, "Meade Dillon via Mercedes" wrote: > Andrew, I think there have been electric cars almost as long as there have > been gasoline engine cars. Google

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-07-01 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
The federal government spends money on lots of things that are not immediately profitable. That is pretty much the role of the government. Computers, lasers, the internet, gps, etc. Much of this is done by funding basic science through NIH, a bunch by funding defense work by the Navy and Darpa,

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-07-01 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote: Whoops, I was wrong, electric cars have been around almost 200 years! If electric cars haven't taken over in the last 100 years, I would not be inclined to bet that they'll make the big move in the next 100. +1Particularly, if the markets are allowed to

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-07-01 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Huzzah! rogerhga--- via Mercedes June 30, 2017 at 11:34 AM I can't believe you guys are missing the obvious. The energy answer is the "flux capacitor". We can convert garbage to energyand we all know we have way too much garbage in this world. Or maybe the

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-07-01 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Bzzt! Solar and wind are NOT sustainable without the goobermnt robbing us to prop up wind and solar. Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: Solar and wind are part of a sustainable mix and will make our non-renewable energy sources last much longer but they aren't the whole answer. OTOH people who

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-07-01 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
No, Andrew, the MARKET did NOT speak. The GOOBERS in the GOOBERMNT spoke, and threw, and are throwing billions of illegally taken taxpayer Dollars to support economically unfeasible solar and wind. For example, Tesla: Most of the cost of production is goobermnt money. (Not to mention

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-06-30 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Uh oh! No trigger warning before providing truth! M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes June 30, 2017 at 4:20 AM http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/solar-industrys-new-dirty-secret/ *It’s no secret

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2017-06-30 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
Interesting LA Times artice balancing solar against conventional power sources. Part at the end re: the perverse incentives of power utilities to build more plants because they can then charge more per kWh, is interesting: http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-electricity-solar/ On Fri, Jun 30,

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-06-30 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Andrew wrote: > The trend toward solar and wind is overwhelming. That is all government statistical manipulation that does not factor the tax benefits to large corporations, etc. Centralized energy production and distribution is a dead design principle since environment affects resource mining

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-06-30 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Andrew, I think there have been electric cars almost as long as there have been gasoline engine cars. Google knows all. http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/223/electric-car-timeline.html Whoops, I was wrong, electric cars have been around almost 200 years! If electric cars haven't taken over in the

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-06-30 Thread rogerhga--- via Mercedes
I can't believe you guys are missing the obvious. The energy answer is the "flux capacitor". We can convert garbage to energyand we all know we have way too much garbage in this world. Or maybe the methanol out of landfills and convert it to synthetic diesel. Or maybe something that hasn't

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-06-30 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again) Meade, by now the market place has spoken. The trend toward solar and wind is overwhelming. This doesn't mean that gas cars will be phased out overnight but the writing is on the wall. ___

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-06-30 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
>; Meade Dillon <dillonm...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again) Meade, by now the market place has spoken.  The trend toward solar and wind is overwhelming.  This doesn't mean that gas cars will be phased out overni

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-06-30 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Meade, by now the market place has spoken. The trend toward solar and wind is overwhelming. This doesn't mean that gas cars will be phased out overnight but the writing is on the wall. On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 6:59 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Karl I do hope

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-06-30 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Karl I do hope you are correct, and the breakthroughs needed to fulfill the dream of that article arrive tomorrow. Decades ago I learned the reason that solar is doomed to a small percentage of our energy production: physics. Per square meter, the amount of usable energy in sunlight is many

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-06-30 Thread M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/solar-industrys-new-dirty-secret/ *It’s no secret that manufacturing solar panels often requires toxic heavy metals, explosive gases, and rare-earth elements that come from

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-06-29 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
The transmission point is addressed in the article. Yes solar power takes space, but there are lots of rooftops. As for acres we did the math on a half section, and solar is a much better return than farming, with no yearly capital or labor input. As for pure electrics, fewer moving parts is

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-06-29 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
All it requires is half my roof, and for 6 months of the year Pepco pays ME. On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Curley McLain via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Easy, the Lektrojuicity comes from the sky and the wind by majik! no > fuel is burned to make the majik converters. The

Re: [MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-06-29 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Easy, the Lektrojuicity comes from the sky and the wind by majik! no fuel is burned to make the majik converters. The wind/lektrick grabbers grow from the ground. the sun-juice does not require thousands of acres of solar panels, it just appears in the wires! Meade Dillon via Mercedes

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2017-06-29 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
It is also not grounded in reality. Where does the electricity come from? How does it get from point of generation to point of charging / powering the electric cars? I guess that a miracle from God must be involved somewhere... - Max Charleston SC On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 5:35 AM,

[MBZ] big oil dying (again)

2017-06-29 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
I found this interesting, if a bit hyperbolic: shift.newco.co/this-is-how-big-oil-will-die-38b843bd4fe0 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: