Showing posts with label Energy 2017. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Energy 2017. Show all posts
Monday, December 25, 2017

Over three months after Hurricane Maria, electricity won't be restored to all of Puerto Rico until May 2018

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Way to go, Brownie! Story here .
Saturday, November 4, 2017

How to tax the rich and only the rich as originally intended in 1913, and solve a lot of problems

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In 1913 when the average Joe made about $800 a year, the first income tax under the 16th Amendment didn't worry him because he didn...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

A. Barton Hinkle shows once again that libertarianism is of the left, not the right

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Here : [B]oth parties have grown more extreme in recent years. Congressional Republicans certainly have. Congressional Democrats tend ...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

German AfD comes in a strong third, Social Democrats crash, Merkel forced to form coalition with FDP and Greens

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The UK Telegraph reports here : The SPD’s decision to return to opposition has limited her options, with a three-way coalition with th...
Sunday, September 17, 2017

Striking electrical workers suspected in cable vandalism leading to 80,000 New Yorkers losing cable, internet and phone

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I felt a great disturbance in The Farce. From the story here : Spectrum crews spent the day fixing cables on Henry and Sackett Str...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

The price of the latest continuing resolution will probably be a big tax increase

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The last time we had a really big continuing resolution, defying "regular order", the Republicans gave away the store in exchang...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Meanwhile, we get "broken window fallacy" nonsense from The New York Times about Hurricane Harvey

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Destroy the previous products of GDP which produced GDP of their own, and presto! More GDP! Might as well just print the stuff on ster...
Friday, August 25, 2017

You know, we could make a LOT of money if we took our "allies'" oil "off the market", so to speak

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Saturday, July 8, 2017

Over 42,000 still without power in southwest lower Michigan 42 hours after storm

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About 27 hours after the storm hit, nearly 100,000 are still without power in southwest lower Michigan

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Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Trump's right, gas should go lower

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After all, gasoline was $1.02 as recently as January 2002.
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

What's not to like this July 4th: Hillary's not president and gasoline averages $2.22 nationally

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Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Wind energy turbines kill 368,000 birds annually, but kitties kill far more

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Reported here in early 2015: Now, federal wildlife officials are cracking down on wind farms caught killing bats and birds. A peer-...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Mother Of All Bombs tested on the wrong target in Afghanistan, prolonging the 16-year war

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They bombed caves. If they had meant to end the war, they would have bombed the Kajaki dam instead, ending electricity and opium productio...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Trump reverses Obama's Clean Power Plan, lifts ban on coal mining leases on federal lands

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Another promise kept. Now if we could just get back all the income we lost because Obama deliberately did nothing about middle class jobs ...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

Michigan ranks fourth in the nation for power outages, first on a per capita basis since 2011

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Reported here . And in Crain's Detroit Business, here .
Sunday, March 12, 2017

Maybe up to 1 million lost power in Michigan, but mlive says "millions"!

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The age of hyperbole rolls on. Everything is awesome. Here :
Friday, March 10, 2017

Mlive: 800,000 lost power in Michigan on Wednesday, two days later more than 615,000 still in the dark

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Of those still without power, 515,000 are served by DTE Energy, 100,000 by Consumers Energy. The story is here .
Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Detroit News: Almost 700,000 without power in Michigan according to just two power companies

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The story is here . Here's the Consumers Energy outage map, accounting for only about 194,000 customers who lost power today in ...
Thursday, March 2, 2017

Reuters/CNBC oil headline says Russian production cuts stall, when the truth is Russia is cheating

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So who's working in sympathy with the Russians now, huh? "US oil settles at $52.61 a barrel, down $1.22 after Russian output ...