Winter: Baby, It's Cold Outside!

BUSES, moron. Nobody is suggesting that every welfare recipient should buy a Tesla. Nonsense, AGAIN. Helping the poor brings your greedy class UP.

I don't know what they do in your banana republic but the Canadian government prefers incentives. Go ahead and look it up. I'll wait.Doot de doo de doo....Got it yet?One incentive we have is the Carbon Tax (more of a disincentive, actually) which the idiot Conservatives oppose. Use more carbon, pay more tax. It isn't rocket science. Even an idiot Conservative should be able to understand that. No laws. Higher taxes on carbon cause less demand. And even downsizing isn't necessary. We'll still need the energy. The compmnies that are killing us now with their carbon COULD change to energy sources that don't kill us. Instead of spending billions to develop new oilfields from Antarctica to Timbuctu, they COULD be investing in solar farms and wind farms. Why are you fascists so obsessed with laws?

The Green New Deal was entirely aspirational. There is no teeth in it. Why are conservatives so obsessed with it? Are there any laws you don't think are authoritarian? Subsidies, carbon taxes, tax credits for purchasing an electric car, tax credits for home improvements that reduce your carbon footprint, tax credits for installing solar . . . on and on and on. Economic incentives and disincentives. Tax fossil fuels and use that tax to subsidize greener technologies. No one is asking anything to be thrown away. Where do you come up with this?The plan is to incentivize greener technologies, so farmers could see tax credits for purchasing hydrogen or electric powered equipment when they become available. You could see grants and subsidies going to companies that are designing and manufacturing greener technologies.This isn't that hard to figure out.

And remove all subsidies and tax incentives from oil, gas, and coal industries and put them on wind and solar and energy storage. They already make billions in profits and it's way past time for them to pay their fair share of taxes.

You're saying it had no purpose? Why did it receive so much attention in the media back in 2019? Conservatives are obsessed with it because they believe it had/has a strong purpose. To grow the government and weaken free markets. I've touched on it in a previous message. Laws against robbery and murder. Many others - it goes back to what I said about tradition and common sense. Numbers? Percentages? I know you don't have them, nobody does, not even the most fringe left wing authoritarians, YET. They can vary from the most tiny figures and percentages that won't really change anything, to economy destroying percentages and numbers that will greatly lower the standards of living for most people, except the authoritarians. You blindly trust the authoritarians to set those numbers and percentages just right, don't you? I don't. Because cooling the planet and calming the storms will come in a distant second to the priorities of the authoritarians. Their first priority will be their own political power and money.Right now, the authoritarians are waiting and watching, as the mainstream news media sensationalizes every weather event they possibly can, for more and more people to say, through their political involvement and voting, that "we trust you authoritarians! You set the numbers and percentages, and we just know you'll get it just right! And you'll even GET EVEN with all those successful rich people that we're so jealous of!" The Green New Deal. It demands it. (100% clean energy by 2030.) I come up with it by observing what gets started usually in California. Remember that link I showed earlier that people in Sacramento have been recently restricted on how much they can work on their own cars? What's hard to figure out is how so many people can casually give the government cart blanche to set figures and percentages, that have to be paid for, by a country that's $31 trillion in debt.

Ah yes, the main purpose of the Green New Deal. Jealousy and hatred.

Wow! Brilliant, that must be it.

We had a bit of sub zero (F) in December, but in all it's been a damn mild winter so far.Moose

We drove into the DECC today for the MLK Rally. Just a miserable day weather wise. Lots of standing water. Probably freeze solid by Wednesday.

Not winter weather, but a powerful typhoon hit Guam a few hours ago. My grandson is stationed there at Andersen AFB. The roofs of his barracks apartment collapsed. His wife is in month 7 of a high risk pregnancy so she was admitted to the base hospital to ride out the storm and my grandson was there with her, so they are both safe.