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Post by nautonnier on Nov 16, 2018 22:49:21 GMT
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Revolt over high fuel prices threatens to paralyse France
Rise of the ‘gilets jaunes’ coincides with Macron’s record low 26% approval rating
In just a few weeks, the yellow hi-vis vest has become such a potent political symbol that one risks being mistaken for a supporter of the rebellious gilets jaunes when cycling in Paris.
The gilets jaunes are a grass-roots revolt against high fuel prices, and they threaten to paralyse France on Saturday.
In just a few weeks, the yellow hi-vis vest has become such a potent political symbol that one risks being mistaken for a supporter of the rebellious gilets jaunes when cycling in Paris.
The gilets jaunes are a grass-roots revolt against high fuel prices, and they threaten to paralyse France on Saturday."www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/revolt-over-high-fuel-prices-threatens-to-paralyse-france-1.3699287
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 16, 2018 23:20:23 GMT
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Revolt over high fuel prices threatens to paralyse France
Rise of the ‘gilets jaunes’ coincides with Macron’s record low 26% approval rating
In just a few weeks, the yellow hi-vis vest has become such a potent political symbol that one risks being mistaken for a supporter of the rebellious gilets jaunes when cycling in Paris.
The gilets jaunes are a grass-roots revolt against high fuel prices, and they threaten to paralyse France on Saturday.
In just a few weeks, the yellow hi-vis vest has become such a potent political symbol that one risks being mistaken for a supporter of the rebellious gilets jaunes when cycling in Paris.
The gilets jaunes are a grass-roots revolt against high fuel prices, and they threaten to paralyse France on Saturday."www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/revolt-over-high-fuel-prices-threatens-to-paralyse-france-1.3699287 Trump may yet draw a following in France.  |
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 20, 2018 11:04:40 GMT
I cannot believe that politicians are as stupid as this. Surely there is another reason for moving to an all electric economy while reducing base load and dispatchable load electricity generation capability? It is like some kind of national ritual suicide. |
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 20, 2018 15:39:37 GMT
All Things Must Run Their Course
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Post by Ratty on Nov 21, 2018 2:00:40 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Dec 1, 2018 0:03:23 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 1, 2018 3:40:08 GMT
I'm only surprised that they are willing to wait that long! Perhaps they're seriously afraid that we might start burning thermal greens instead.  |
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 4, 2018 9:12:06 GMT
In praise of the Gilets jaunes
Most strikingly this is a people’s rebellion against the onerous consequences of climate-change policy, against the politics of environmentalism and its tendency to punish the little people for daring to live relatively modern, fossil-fuelled lives. This is new. This is unprecedented. We are witnessing perhaps the first mass uprising against eco-elitism and we should welcome it with open arms to the broader populist revolt that has been sweeping Europe for a few years now.blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/12/in-praise-of-the-gilets-jaunes/amp/?__twitter_impression=true |
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 4, 2018 10:39:18 GMT
In praise of the Gilets jaunes
Most strikingly this is a people’s rebellion against the onerous consequences of climate-change policy, against the politics of environmentalism and its tendency to punish the little people for daring to live relatively modern, fossil-fuelled lives. This is new. This is unprecedented. We are witnessing perhaps the first mass uprising against eco-elitism and we should welcome it with open arms to the broader populist revolt that has been sweeping Europe for a few years now.blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/12/in-praise-of-the-gilets-jaunes/amp/?__twitter_impression=trueThis about says it all. Retirez La Douchebag!For years we have lived in a climate of ‘You can’t say that’. You can’t criticise mass immigration — that’s xenophobia. You can’t oppose the EU — that’s Europhobia. You can’t raise concerns about radical Islam — that’s Islamophobia. You can’t agitate against climate-change policy — that’s climate-change denialism, on a par with Holocaust denialism, and anyone who dares to bristle against eco-orthodoxy deserves to be cast out of polite society. And yet now, in this populist moment, people are daring to say precisely these unsayable things. They’re standing up to the EU. They’re demanding that immigration become a democratic concern rather than something worked out for us by unaccountable bureaucrats in Brussels. And now they’re even grating against the hitherto unquestionable religious-style diktat that we must all drive less, shop less and do less in order to ‘save the planet’. |
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 7, 2018 22:22:55 GMT
USGS identifies largest continuous oil and gas resource potential ever
Estimates include 46.3 billion barrels of oil, 281 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and 20 billion barrels of natural gas liquids in Texas and New Mexico's Wolfcamp Shale and Bone Spring Formationht www.eurekalert.org/'pub_releases/2018-12/ugs-uil120618.php
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Post by Ratty on Dec 7, 2018 23:33:43 GMT
Fixed website link: USGS identifies largest continuous oil and gas resource potential ever
Estimates include 46.3 billion barrels of oil, 281 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and 20 billion barrels of natural gas liquids in Texas and New Mexico's Wolfcamp Shale and Bone Spring Formationwww.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/ugs-uil120618.php |
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 9, 2018 14:20:18 GMT
" The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 YearsAmerica turned into a net oil exporter last week, breaking almost 75 years of continued dependence on foreign oil and marking a pivotal -- even if likely brief -- moment toward what U.S. President Donald Trump has branded as "energy independence." The shift to net exports is the dramatic result of an unprecedented boom in American oil production, with thousands of wells pumping from the Permian region of Texas and New Mexico to the Bakken in North Dakota to the Marcellus in Pennsylvania." www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-06/u-s-becomes-a-net-oil-exporter-for-the-first-time-in-75-years |
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 10, 2018 17:05:43 GMT
" The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 YearsAmerica turned into a net oil exporter last week, breaking almost 75 years of continued dependence on foreign oil and marking a pivotal -- even if likely brief -- moment toward what U.S. President Donald Trump has branded as "energy independence." The shift to net exports is the dramatic result of an unprecedented boom in American oil production, with thousands of wells pumping from the Permian region of Texas and New Mexico to the Bakken in North Dakota to the Marcellus in Pennsylvania." www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-06/u-s-becomes-a-net-oil-exporter-for-the-first-time-in-75-yearsI am not an economist, so correct me if I'm wrong. When I was in school, we were taught a very simple economic meme, of basic-nonbasic activities, where "basic" activities (production) generated the wealth that supported non-basic" (service) activities. Positive national capital flows in this very simple model, accompanied by an increasingly educated/skilled population largely unfettered by excessive government regulations, provided for temporal accumulation of "wealth" in areas/nations with high (positive) basic sector production. Certain services could also be basic if they were "exported", thus resulting in net inflows of capital. From about 1850 to 1950, an explosion of agriculture, mining and manufacturing activities, brought on by the above, resulted in the rise of the wealthiest, most productive society on the planet. While Adam Smith made many other arguments in his manuscript "the wealth of nations", this concentration of resources and "basic" exploitation activities across one large, politically integrated geographic area may explain much of this century of dominance. The slow (1960 to now) reversal of this "equation", particularly in energy and manufacturing (complicated by other factors) has, at a minimum, not been kind to our so-called middle class. The globalist would argue that this is not important. It is fairer that wealth-producing activities be re-distributed to others. This matters not to the modern elite, as they profit, it seems, no matter where the basic productive activities occur. The nationalist would argue that we should strengthen the localization of these activities in support of our own population ... that the unfettered movement of production to the cheapest labor locations is not always a good idea ... that local population re-employment in digital services, which is largely a service industry is equally deliverable by Asian programmers, and cannot replace fully integrated basic sector activities. Should we not celebrate the moves to energy independence (brought about by American technology) and a return of manufacturing to the American mainland? Tell me where my old-school paradigms are wrong.  |
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Post by sigurdur on Dec 10, 2018 18:32:01 GMT
You paradigms are not wrong. All wealth is created via production. Service is a function OF production, not an end in itself.
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Post by Ratty on Dec 10, 2018 22:09:49 GMT
[ Snip ] Are modern services production? Ask a software engineer? |
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