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10-06-22 04:38 #10523
Posts: 5454Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
Maybe, like me, a lot of retiring baby boomers took the greater income, pensions, savings and real estate investment gains they made in California and either moved to depressed areas in Texas and other Red States where they could pretty much buy for cash and enjoy a life of leisure lording over the locals or move to a place more different, fun, exotic, exciting and pleasurable than anywhere in America, such as Bangkok.
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10-06-22 04:14 #10522
Posts: 5454Nancy These Boots Are Made For Walking DeSantis to the rescue!
Don't worry, boys, Nancy DeSantis is here to reduce the cost of gas for you!
DeSantis Takes Credit For Biden's Gas Tax Credit
https://crooksandliars.com/2022/10/g...esident-bidens
On October 3, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis celebrated an upcoming gas tax holiday in his state and tweeted out how in the month of October, working class Floridians will be saving money at the pump.
Our gas tax holiday went into effect on Saturday, which means Floridians will receive $0.25 off every gallon they purchase this month.
This relief will help hardworking families across the state save money at the pump.
- Ron DeSantis
October 3, 2022
"People will just believe you. You just tell them and they believe you", as Donald Trump said about his favorite target suckers.
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10-06-22 03:41 #10521
Posts: 5454Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
By omitting the critical detail that the LFP was crashing down all through GW Bush's tax cuts galore presidency, which unavoidably bled into Obama's presidency along with that particular Great Repub Recession among many, that Obama's economy halted and reversed that trajectory and that already reversed trajectory is what Trump and his godawful waste of $2. 5+ Trillion TCJA met, you untruthfully "suggest" that the TCJA had something significant if at all to do with the reversal and increase in the LFP.
When it didn't.
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10-06-22 03:03 #10520
Posts: 3234Originally Posted by ScatManDoo [View Original Post]
You may scoff arrogantly at GWB, and he deserves it. Just know that I have equal contempt for those parading around with the notion of global warming and climate change.
Much like the data that refutes the notion of climate change and global warming, any alternative to oil was dismissed with the wave of a hand. In this case, there was the notion that it required more energy to produce a barrel of ethanol than was in the barrel of ethanol itself. The oil companies, which get tax breaks themselves, tried to say ethanol production from corn was not a viable alternative to energy without government subsidies. The oil companies used math "to prove" their claim, and it was as flawed as the math climate scientists used to prove so many places would be under water today.
Truth is that fracking is a much cheaper and better way to get energy than ethanol. Fracking led to huge natural gas finds and incredibly cheap electricity production in the USA and with it, the electric car that is supposed to save the day. The reason the electric car is so stupid is the storage. Natural gas is a great store of energy and can be used to power a car and very cleanly at that. Why you need to turn natural gas into electricity and use highly toxic batteries is beyond me.
In the USA, ethanol is traded on the market like oil. Thing is that it is going to vary with corn costs. So now it is cheaper than gasoline and it does have a government subsidy helping to make it cheaper. However, with the coming fertilizer shortage, I am not sure corn is going to stay cheap for long.
FWIW, the problem with corn based ethanol is that you had to use farm lands for energy production. That was not too much of a problem 10 years ago but now with the fertilizer shortage, there likely will be a food shortage, so ethanol really, really does not make sense now.
The most intriguing alternative energy sources were biodiesel from weeds that grew wild in India and from algae that could be grown in the desert. The problems with both of these methods were the yields were all over the place. With oil and gas that can be produced so cheaply and quickly with fracking, these methods for getting fuel are likely going to be on the shelf for centuries.
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10-06-22 02:59 #10519
Posts: 1807Originally Posted by Canada [View Original Post]
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10-06-22 02:22 #10518
Posts: 1807Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
I'm actually closer to the Democrat way of thinking on social issues. But I vote with my pocketbook. And believe, like the majority of Americans, that Republicans are better for the economy.
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10-06-22 02:20 #10517
Posts: 1807Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
The drawback is that it's a regressive tax that hurts the poorest among us. Or maybe I should say the poorest who own cars. I have one friend in particular who had a tough time paying for gas to get to and from work. It blew out his budget when gasoline prices went up. Also, I don't think anything we do will make a significant difference in global warming. We account for 15% of carbon emissions, and that number's going to go down a lot. The future is in the hands of rapidly growing and industrializing countries like China, India and Indonesia, and they're still building coal fired power plants.
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10-06-22 02:17 #10516
Posts: 428Yes Stupidity
Originally Posted by Canada [View Original Post]
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10-06-22 02:16 #10515
Posts: 3234Originally Posted by JustTK [View Original Post]
Unlike its snobby brethren in Dallas and Houston, people in Austin are hippy types, the black sheep of the family. It is called the velvet rut. You go to Austin because you are burned out and stay because you are having so much fun that you cannot leave.
My ultimate Austin experience is Franklin's BBQ. The owner and his wife could be put in that 70's show and no one would blink. Their restaurant is a downtown trailer, but every day they are open, there is a line out the door and it takes hours to get food. Unlike California or New York, Texans do not do lines. You have one popular place you build 10 more but not Franklin's. There is just one.
There are great, great BBQ joints in Austin where you do not have to wait, but I have waited in this line, and you make friends. You talk about if you are stupid for waiting in line this long. You drink the local craft beers. You buy them for your new friends, make stupid toasts, and pretty soon the line no longer is a burden but a line of friends you love being with. That is classic Austin, friendly people who do not shy from admitting they are different and waiting three hours for BBQ is different. It is weird, and that is the slogan of the city, Keep Austin weird. It is the perfect slogan for this city. It really is.
So you get your meat. Plastic tray. Wax paper. Gourmet setting this is not. And then you take a bite of the brisket, and I will leave it to deceased international food critic Anthony Bourdain to take it from here. "How is it possible that this brisket is so good?" How do you take crummy brisket meat and make it more tasty than the most expensive filet mignon? The brisket is not just good. It is life affirming, proof that there is always something better to find and try.
But without the ranchers who tend to the beef, the Bible lovers who get the trains to run on time, the blue collar conservative oil workers who give the state its energy, the gun loving hunters, and the straight laced businessman, there would be no weird. The problem with California is the whole state is weird whereas in Texas we just have this one part, and that is why it works. You have a place with a nice climate, great food, friendly people, no state income taxes, and a city that although strangled by traffic is one that works.
Austin is what California should be.
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10-06-22 01:44 #10514
Posts: 1807Originally Posted by JustTK [View Original Post]
This is a wild guess for me too, as I don't live in California. But judging from the following, you appear to be right, and the two biggest culprits would be high taxes and the high cost of buying or renting housing:
https://kmph.com/news/local/people-a...t-record-rates
It sounds like California just isn't affordable for the Workingman and retirees.
Just speculating, but I bet headaches and costs associated with permitting and rezoning are the main reasons the housing shortage exists in the Peoples Republic of California. Probably California Democratic politicians would instead blame that on limited land, and "everyone wants to live in California. " The part about limited land is true. Because if the governments won't grant permits or rezone, there's limited land to build housing on. And rent seekers like one of our posters here can clean up. And, sincerely, kudos to him for that. I wish I owned some prime California rental property I picked up many years ago.
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10-06-22 00:04 #10513
Posts: 1784Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
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10-06-22 00:01 #10512
Posts: 2344Originally Posted by ChuchoLoco [View Original Post]
From what source did you get this?
I know just a little about the blending of Ethanol. Since I see the few stations that sell Ethanol, sell it at a slightly lower cost than regular gasoline, I was expecting that the opposite was true.
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10-06-22 00:01 #10511
Posts: 1784Zaki's Gift Of Love
"When a nation stays neutral, it's a sovereign country with free will, but when it joins a bloc like NATO, it becomes an army base of an over-ambitious superpower that wants to control world order. ".
"I hate war. Everything is bad about war. Pain, wounds, death, loss, tears and cruel memories for all life. But, once somebody told me, when everything is going negative, try to find out something positive there and this is life. Nowadays, everything is going badly in this world, but maybe after the Ukraine and Russia conflict one thing has been settled down. Maybe now no country will give their soil to illegitimate partners to use for terror against neighbouring countries. " - Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love".
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10-05-22 23:52 #10510
Posts: 1604Really?
Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
There is a lot going on re: reformulated gasoline. California uses as special blend called low-RVP gasoline. It costs more to produce and therefore costs more. But California does add a lot of excise tax to gasoline so it does cost more. Now, one can gripe and complain all they want, but the vast majority of Californians voted to lower their property taxes with Prop 13. The government needs to get the money somewhere.
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10-05-22 23:32 #10509
Posts: 1068OPEC cuts oil production by 2,000,000 barrels a day today
Originally Posted by CaliGuy [View Original Post]