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Author: WiltonKnight   😊 😞
Number: of 48486 
Subject: Applause for Europe
Date: 04/28/2023 8:57 AM
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Rarely do I praise the conceited, World-Warring, Slave-Trading, murderous xenophobic stain on humanity known as Europe.

But in this case..

Here's to you....

Someone is standing up to Greedy Liberal Corporations.

Be it Google, Microsoft, whatever - they are getting regulated, fined, and blocked.

Hopefully the Dumb Republicans in America don't come to the aid of these Greedy Liberal Big Businesses one day.
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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Applause for Europe
Date: 04/28/2023 6:52 PM
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And even better: Germany is demanding remote control of all sorts of stuff:

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/04/26/govern...

(Source chosen deliberately)

In order to help combat such an overload, the government agency in charge of Germany's national grid has announced a plan for authorities to be given remote control of every household's heat pumps and car chargers so that they can enforce rationing if and when it becomes necessary.


Tee, hee. Control. Every leftist's end game.

California will be right behind this. The serial Insulto-losers will cheer.
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Author: commonone 🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: Applause for Europe
Date: 04/29/2023 8:46 AM
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Dope1: (Source chosen deliberately)

Umm, perhaps this source was selected because there are no other sources to this "story"? The only legitimate news source that reported anything like this was a 2015 article on a 125-home test in Germany that would allow energy to be cut back during peak demand but also increased when there was a surplus of energy.


Dope1: Tee, hee. Control. Every leftist's end game.

There's more of that IMAX projection. Perhaps you missed it when Texas, that well-known leftist haven, instituted rolling blackouts across more than 75% of the state in 2021 and just barely managed to avoid complete failure of its electrical grid.
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Author: WiltonKnight   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Applause for Europe
Date: 04/29/2023 8:49 AM
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There's more of that IMAX projection. Perhaps you missed it when Texas, that well-known leftist haven, instituted rolling blackouts across more than 75% of the state in 2021 and just barely managed to avoid complete failure of its electrical grid.
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Good to know Texas is the Gold Standard now.

And yes it was a noteworthy event in Texas.


Liberals - want it as a way of life.

And guess what, they will get their way.

Decline.

It's here.

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Author: commonone 🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: Applause for Europe
Date: 04/29/2023 9:09 AM
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WiltonKnight: Good to know Texas is the Gold Standard now.

Huh? Where did I imply any such thing? HINT: I didn't.

Let me make it clearer for you: the deep red republican state is only to happy to control energy use of its citizens. And no, liberals do not "want it as a way of life."

For a more accurate example of exerting control as a way of life, you might check with the millions of women who no longer control their own bodies.
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Author: WiltonKnight   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Applause for Europe
Date: 04/29/2023 9:19 AM
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Let me make it clearer for you: the deep red republican state is only to happy to control energy use of its citizens. And no, liberals do not "want it as a way of life."
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Are these limits, the one time example in Texas you showed- now daily law of the land?

And.... since it's not a way of life.... I agree with you.

*NO limits on how much gas people buy and use. No punitive taxations on suc.

*NO limits on car washing, showering, swimming and water used for such wonderful fun purposes.

*NO limits on consuming things like meat.

*NO limits on water usage for toilet flushing.

*NO limits or ability to control people's usage of air conditioning and heating.

*NO limits on what people drive be it a tiny car, or a huge SUV.

*NO mandates on fuel efficiency - people can decide how much gas to guzzle.

No coaxing, taxing, or any mechanism to discourage such.

We agree. I am so glad I was wrong and Liberals have no interest in any of the above. For some reason I thought Liberals favored regulations on most of the above, things like credits for Elective Vehicles, higher fuel standards for automakers, etc. I'm glad I was wrong.

We stand together.

Anyhow, time to fire up the 11MPG'er, and head out for a nice McDonald's breakfast in the car. Steak Egg and Cheese Bagel will be the centerpiece, here's to the methane and cows. Mooooooo



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Author: commonone 🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: Applause for Europe
Date: 04/29/2023 10:41 AM
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WilsonKnight: *NO limits on how much gas people buy and use. No punitive taxations on suc [sic].

No limits where we live. Punitive taxation? Umm, no.


WilsonKnight: *NO limits on car washing, showering, swimming and water used for such wonderful fun purposes.

Again, not here. In desert or drought states like California, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, there are some restrictions. But tell me... how many of those states are RED states?


WilsonKnight: *NO limits on consuming things like meat.

Again, no.

WilsonKnight: *NO limits on...

Again, the answer is no for everything on your list aside from fuel mandates. And wasn't it that well-known lefty, president George H.W. Bush who signed The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 into law that raised the fuel economy standards of America's cars, light trucks, and SUVs to a combined average of at least 35 miles per gallon by 2020?


https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/brief-history-us-...

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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Applause for Europe
Date: 04/29/2023 3:23 PM
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Liberals - want it as a way of life.

Indeed they do!
Notice the only defense is "Bbbbbut Texas.....!"

Now what he didn't tell you in his reply was WHY Texas had to have blackouts. Why was that? It was because they decided to Green Up their power grid and had spent a ton of money on non-24/7 power sources.

Huh. That one is the master of the out of context "fact" that uses to uses to bolster his "counterarguments". What you find when you pressure test his posts is that they're not made of particularly stern stuff.

If say, he was confronted with that fact, he'd immediately whip out a "reliable source" that tells the NPC's It's okay, nothing to see here. Like this one
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/climate/texas-b...
However, wind power was not chiefly to blame for the Texas blackouts. The main problem was frigid temperatures that stalled natural gas production, which is responsible for the majority of Texas' power supply. Wind makes up just a fraction ' 7 percent or so, by some estimates ' of the state's overall mix of power generation this time of year.

And to the Intellectual Yet Idiot NPCs that make up the left wing zhīshifènzǐ class, this is nectar. Lookit...stooopid Faux News talking points dunked on again!!!!!

But that's not the whole story. The reason so many of them are unknowing, mendacious liars is because they lack the intellectual curiosity to actually understand 99% of the things they bray about online. Natural gas pipelines froze, eh? Really?

Maybe we could dig deeper. After all, getting cold in Texas in the winter time...is a thing. Happens fairly often. So why did this happen now? That's the question the Insultolzers don't bother to ask. Would go against the NPC programming anyway:


https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/18/texass-blacko...
Here's what really happened: the vast majority of our fossil fuel power plants continued running smoothly, just as they do in far colder climates across the world. Power plant infrastructure is designed for cold weather and rarely freezes, unlike wind turbines that must be specially outfitted to handle extreme cold.

It appears that ERCOT, Texas's grid operator, was caught off guard by how soon demand began to exceed supply. Failure to institute a managed rolling blackout before the grid frequency fell to dangerously low levels meant some plants had to shut off to protect their equipment. This is likely why so many power plants went offline, not because they had failed to maintain operations in the cold weather.

Yet these operational errors overshadow the decades of policy blunders that made these blackouts inevitable. Thanks to market-distorting policies that favor and subsidize wind and solar energy, Texas has added more than 20,000 megawatts (MW) of those intermittent resources since 2015 while barely adding any natural gas and retiring significant coal generation.


And what happens when your population grows and you don't grow your reliable energy generation infrastructure to match it? Texas has been subsidizing the heck out of wind and solar:
Research by the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Life:Powered project found that more than $80 billion of our tax dollars have been spent on wind and solar subsidies in the last decade, in federal subsidies alone. Texans are also charged an average of $1.5 billion a year in state subsidies for renewable energy.


A similar story plays out on California, where years of incompetence, interference and downright stupidity has meant that despite having the Sierra Nevadas right there they never build any water infrastructure. So when they get their occasional Big Rain Events they have to let trillions of gallons of fresh water flow back to the ocean.

His grade? Fail, of course.
Stupidity. Poor governance.

100% on democrats.
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Author: WiltonKnight   😊 😞
Number: of 48486 
Subject: Re: Applause for Europe
Date: 04/29/2023 5:21 PM
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Let me make it clearer for you: the deep red republican state is only to happy to control energy use of its citizens. And no, liberals do not "want it as a way of life."
****

Are these limits, the one time example in Texas you showed- now daily law of the land?

And.... since it's not a way of life.... I agree with you.

*NO limits on how much gas people buy and use. No punitive taxations on suc.

*NO limits on car washing, showering, swimming and water used for such wonderful fun purposes.

*NO limits on consuming things like meat.

*NO limits on water usage for toilet flushing.

*NO limits or ability to control people's usage of air conditioning and heating.

*NO limits on what people drive be it a tiny car, or a huge SUV.

*NO mandates on fuel efficiency - people can decide how much gas to guzzle.

No coaxing, taxing, or any mechanism to discourage such.


CommonOne for President. I don't follow day to day politics of declining America any longer so I'm not sure who to suggest for VP. Maybe Tulsi. Commonone will tell the energy-Fossil-Water-Nannies to buzz off. VP VP....hmmm good question. Perhaps Mark Warner, D Va. Or if we want to attract the Rust Belt - Sherrod Brown. But frankly...... these days, it seems Dick or Liz Cheney would fit the bill because Dems want WW3 soon.
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