State rights much?

Zelenskyy was also a comedian, they are both pretty smart.

Ex-wife? Did I miss something?

Sadly enough, this will become the new normal. We, as a society, really need to look at the role oil and gas companies are playing and stop talking with them.

They are the problem, not part of any solution.

It’s actually insane how the oil and gas industry has hijacked the climate conferences and is controlling the narrative.

CO2 capture, hydrogen and a whole array of ‘solutions’ which are nothing but a distraction from the core issue; this is a criminal enterprise that’s a full-blown threat to humanity.

Economy is something else than the stockmarket. In fact, I’d say the two have absolutely nothing in common anymore. The stockmarket is a casino, with Joe Average losing everything once in a while.

For decades Republicans wanted to ‘starve the beast’, and they are now close to actually succeeding. It’ll be interesting once the dimmed bulbs in the red stats discover that their life style was basically possible by government policies transferring wealth from the blue coastal states to their backward ass states.

Relevant: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-the-weaponization-of-the-federal-government/

https://www.cencepower.com/blog-posts/line-losses-power-transmission-3-types

2 to 3 percent.

Building way more renewable generation than needed at peak, plus elasticity brought by batteries (hello V2G cars) plus HVDC lines to transport power between regions will be faster and cheaper than deploying the most expensive form of power generation.

Yet, it’s the power companies that don’t want this. As it’s threatening their business model of central generation and metering every kWh going to the consumer.

This is the reason why these discussions keep popping up. Right wing parties are fully aligned with the centralised thinking of traditional power companies.

Still, the shelves will be empty during the summer and who knows also prior to the holidays.

ok, imagine the word ‘also’ after Although. Believe me, what’s happening in Gaza and the West Bank is very much top of mind for me as well.

This affects us all.

Good! Although I’d like Norway to divest itself from all fossil undertakings themselves. I realise that Europe is now fully dependent on Norway’s methane, amongst LNG imports from the US. But Norway could start announcing a gradual shutdown of their wells, to get Europe going in further electrifying its energy needs.

That’s not how the stockmarket works, lol.

Here’s a short short about shorting.

https://www.sofi.com/learn/content/shorting-a-stock-explained/

Most, except the hard right in the West, including Trump and his sycophants.

Why are Anglo-Saxon ‘conservative’ governments hell-bent on punishing the poor to the fullest extent. They no longer hide the strategy that cruelty is the point! And the general public seems to like it, and votes for it in ever greater numbers, until it happens to themselves, of course.

Can someone explain this to a person who grew up in a Rhineland model based society that is now fast adopting the Anglo Saxon model (the Netherlands).