I’ll guess that you have never been to California. There was pumpjack one block away from my house when I was growing up.

But in fact, the biggest thing keeping us from moving away from fossil fuels is the political pressure from people who make money from it. And if California went into Canada or Cascadia, those people would come with it, kicking and screaming all the way.

I’ll have you know that I am an official paper CNE.

On Christmas day he told me to fuck off, so now I don’t know.

What do non-Americans think it is?

I wonder how much money it takes to rebuild a blown engine in a new BMW 3-Series nowadays?

Edit: so I went and had a brief look in Google. It looks like they run between $6000 and $12000 depending on how powerful the engine is. So for a base model it would indeed be somewhat cheaper.

That’s an analogy that might appeal to the LE types.

I, for one, had not known that (tho’ I am not Jewish). Thx.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews

If your employer is a great corporation then they will not mind paying a fair portion of their profits toward taxes.

So … we were supposed to skim instead of read. Mea culpa – I was reading instead, trying to understand the arguments and get the points. I was weary by the time I got there.

I don’t think that it actually answers your question, but I would like to point out that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas: a gigantic nuclear furnace.

Google for “Intuit lobbying.”

It’s not literally bribery; it’s corporate America at work. Effectively bribery, IMHO.

… and chips (Frito-Lay).