Define polluter.
Define polluter.
Pooer wrote:
Fat hurts wrote:
I think we both understand the word "free" just fine.
You have to realize that the switch to renewable energy requires a large upfront cost, but only a tiny cost to keep the system running. So polluters will cover the cost of making the switch.
After that, there are any number of ways to fund whatever ongoing maintenance there might be. I'm suggesting that the cost of electricity will be so low that it won't make sense to bill ordinary rate payers any more. So electricity will be free for those customers. It is free in the same sense that today we refer to our "free public libraries".
Polluters == middle and lower classes
When I say it will be funded by polluters, I mean it will come out of the profits of the fossil fuel industry. We will stop giving them subsidies and we will levy a carbon tax.
Another good source of revenue would be to make them pay for the damage they have already done. There are some huge lawsuits that could be settled to help pay for the switch to renewables.
Fat hurts wrote:
Pooer wrote:
Polluters == middle and lower classes
When I say it will be funded by polluters, I mean it will come out of the profits of the fossil fuel industry. We will stop giving them subsidies and we will levy a carbon tax.
Another good source of revenue would be to make them pay for the damage they have already done. There are some huge lawsuits that could be settled to help pay for the switch to renewables.
And you think that will not impact the middle and lower class?
The sun provides free energy after a huge upfront cost known as the Big Bang.
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um...the point of an investigation is to find out the facts. If you already know the facts, you call the grand jury to indict or you walk away. Starting an investigation into the many, many, many contacts between trump/trumpers and Russia was a necessary move.
You do know that trump lied to you when he said he had no business in russia, right?
I can't tell if you're just a liar, or really dumb. There's just no other explanation.
You don't start a Special Counsel investigation if you "don't know yet". WHICH IS WHY they HAD to classify it as a "counterintelligence" investigation. You couldn't classify it as a criminal investigation, because they had ZERO evidence.
Page: “it still existed in the scope of possibility that there would be literally nothing” to connect Trump and Russia, no matter what Mueller or the FBI did.
This means ZERO evidence.
Strzok: [reluctant to join the SC because] "there's no big there there."
This means ZERO evidence.
Comey: [Not yet evidence to justify investigating Trump for colluding with Russia.] “When I left, we did not have an investigation focused on President Trump."
This means ZERO evidence.
And to this day what have they shown?
That's right, ZERO evidence. You were duped.
GAME OVER.
agip wrote:
Brainerd wrote:
This is your brain on Faux News, lol
um...the point of an investigation is to find out the facts. If you already know the facts, you call the grand jury to indict or you walk away. Starting an investigation into the many, many, many contacts between trump/trumpers and Russia was a necessary move.
You do know that trump lied to you when he said he had no business in russia, right?
He has been trying to establish a presence in Russia (and many, many other places globally) for a long time. But he does not have business in Russia. That was not technically a lie.
Do you simply disagree with the common-sense explanation for why an investigation takes place? Is that what is going on here? You think an investigation takes place AFTER a crime is proven?
An investigation takes place when there is a good chance a crime took place.
So there was a counter-intel investigation because of all the trump-russia contacts and lies. and eventually the mueller investigation. And all the other investigations.
The Mueller invesstigation found many, many crimes. We don't know what the counter-intel investigation will find. Or SDNY, NYS, House, Senate, etc.
Not accurate wrote:
agip wrote:
um...the point of an investigation is to find out the facts. If you already know the facts, you call the grand jury to indict or you walk away. Starting an investigation into the many, many, many contacts between trump/trumpers and Russia was a necessary move.
You do know that trump lied to you when he said he had no business in russia, right?
He has been trying to establish a presence in Russia (and many, many other places globally) for a long time. But he does not have business in Russia. That was not technically a lie.
Trump signing a letter of intent with russians to build a giant building in moscow is 'business in russia.' trump stood to make a lot of money if that thing was built, so that is business. And he lied to you about it, denying it all the way.
agip wrote:
Not accurate wrote:
He has been trying to establish a presence in Russia (and many, many other places globally) for a long time. But he does not have business in Russia. That was not technically a lie.
Trump signing a letter of intent with russians to build a giant building in moscow is 'business in russia.' trump stood to make a lot of money if that thing was built, so that is business. And he lied to you about it, denying it all the way.
meh...not a reason to start an investigation.
Not accurate wrote:
He has been trying to establish a presence in Russia (and many, many other places globally) for a long time. But he does not have business in Russia. That was not technically a lie.
If it's not too much trouble, could you post your comprehensive list of countries in which the Trump Organization has business interests.
Plus he asked the Russians to hack dems emails, which led to years of lucrative deals that are difficult to account for or prevent.
Pooer wrote:
Fat hurts wrote:
When I say it will be funded by polluters, I mean it will come out of the profits of the fossil fuel industry. We will stop giving them subsidies and we will levy a carbon tax.
Another good source of revenue would be to make them pay for the damage they have already done. There are some huge lawsuits that could be settled to help pay for the switch to renewables.
And you think that will not impact the middle and lower class?
That's right. It won't. It will only impact the profits of the fossil fuel industry. It will have no impact on retail prices because they will have to keep prices low in order to compete with renewables.
Honshu wrote:
agip wrote:
Trump signing a letter of intent with russians to build a giant building in moscow is 'business in russia.' trump stood to make a lot of money if that thing was built, so that is business. And he lied to you about it, denying it all the way.
meh...not a reason to start an investigation.
that was just one bit of it. there was much, much, more. Especially a trump campaign guy in a drunken bragfest saying that he knew the Russians had dirt on HRC.
Then there is Manafort, who owed millions to Russians and was dirty as dirty can be. And the head of the trump campaign.
And many trumpers meeting with Russians and then lying about it.
and then firing the head of the FBI in order to stop and investigation.
I mean the smoke was billowing. Come on.
Silly Willy wrote:
You don't start a Special Counsel investigation if you "don't know yet". WHICH IS WHY they HAD to classify it as a "counterintelligence" investigation. You couldn't classify it as a criminal investigation, because they had ZERO evidence.
The whole point of an investigation is to find out what you don't know. That's what it means to "investigate".
It was classified as a counterintelligence investigation because that's what it was.
Fat hurts wrote:
Pooer wrote:
And you think that will not impact the middle and lower class?
That's right. It won't. It will only impact the profits of the fossil fuel industry. It will have no impact on retail prices because they will have to keep prices low in order to compete with renewables.
Don't be stupid. The cost would just be passed along to consumers in nearly every industry affected. It would be a HUGE burden on the middle and lower classes.
Fat hurts wrote:
Silly Willy wrote:
You don't start a Special Counsel investigation if you "don't know yet". WHICH IS WHY they HAD to classify it as a "counterintelligence" investigation. You couldn't classify it as a criminal investigation, because they had ZERO evidence.
The whole point of an investigation is to find out what you don't know. That's what it means to "investigate".
It was classified as a counterintelligence investigation because that's what it was.
Actually, the official name of the investigation was "witch hunt."
Sally Vix wrote:
Fat hurts wrote:
The whole point of an investigation is to find out what you don't know. That's what it means to "investigate".
It was classified as a counterintelligence investigation because that's what it was.
Actually, the official name of the investigation was "witch hunt."
I'm perpetually disappointed by 'conservatives' who don't give a darn about crimes and national security when it is their party doing the crimes.
You be you, and you keep denying you put party over nation. You aren't fooling anyone.
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