See Just one of the points made in the above essay:
...Forcing Americans into a fossil fuel crisis with the hope that we will all purchase electric vehicles is akin to a barren forty-five year old couple spending lavishly on a nursery for the newborn that will never arrive. But the fools keep shelling out money to the fertility specialist who promises them a future and gives birth to the wind....
[...]
...“Clean energy” is just the Ponzi scheme that enriches the wealthy and impoverishes the average American. We are indeed, impoverished now – with the fuel crisis. But “clean energy” is just one of the many dark money schemes hoisted upon the American People....
Read the entire essay HERE. Please read thoughtfully.
There's nothing sinister about ecological measures in themselves, until they become corrupted by the energy lobby. The problem is a legislature that is not free to do anything which would disrupt the interests of the lobbies.
ReplyDeleteExxon Mobil, BP, and the other energy companies only pursue green energy out of government mandates and subsidies. They have always stood against "ecological measures" until they've become incapable of being resisted. This is all on the "green religionists."
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My point is, the main reason that ecological measures are not effective is because they are always corrupted by the energy lobby. Not that the energy lobby agitated or welcomed them.
DeleteWe have the cleanest air and water that we've had in decades. I fail to see what's been "corrupted" other than the regulatory system itself with its' incesssant march towards environmental "purity".
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Hopefully the union can negotiate improved conditions in those factories.
ReplyDeleteThe government elites are now forcing their "rich-peoples values" onto the rest of us. No bureaucrat in DC will ever lose his job as a result, or suffer a drop in income. They'll simply "tax" the rest of us for the difference. Federal government employees are the highest paid people in the country, with complete job security.
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Are you familiar with Maslow and VALS? The rich people controlling government are now "self-actualizing" themselves, and pushing the rest of us into "survival" mode. Our "lifestyle choices" are now being restricted and dictated by them.
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FJ,
DeleteA pox on their "rich-peoples values"!
There was a cargo container ship slap full of fidget spinners you were supposed to buy with your Covid stimulus check during the shutdowns. Shame on you. ;)
DeleteDid the spinners have warning labels on them to prevent seizures? And were they carbon and lead-free?
DeleteNo, no, and no. You were supposed to spend your "free" money, not save it lol. Some teen aged former burger-flipping dork bought guns, ammo, and armor to shoot up a school with his. C'mon now.
DeleteThey're still in a container off Long Beach. And where's the "feeling of financial comfort" that Joe Biden says he "gave me" in spending all my "stimulus" checks on the few products left on Walmart's shelves?
DeleteAt the risk of triggering reeeeee screeches from the mindless Biden-haters, I'm going to have disagree with this one.
ReplyDeleteLook at the profit margins of oil companies like Exxon and Chevron. They ain't hurting, not even a little bit. If anyone's doing a quick cash grab, not "letting a crisis go to waste," and has their greedy hands on the valves, levers, and dimmer switches of this largely artificial "energy crisis," it's those assholes. At one time, shale and traditional dry land drilling over-produced oil to the point nobody in the world had space to store extracted oil for refining, and the price of oil actually dropped to below zero because supply was so high nobody could store, refine, or use it fast enough. Those shale fields, those well taps, those proven reserve sources still have wells and rigs and pipelines and logistical transport systems in place to resume production well above what they are doing now, and even back to the level of potentially replacing Europe's dependence on Russia and the Middle East. Right now. Flip a switch, and it's done, we have $2 a gallon gas again. They turned off the spigot for Covid shutdowns. The never turned them back on. And why would they? They lost a lot of money driving the price of oil below zero. They're not going to do that again. Ever. The good news, if you have a swimming pool full of cash laying around to spend the money you'd spend filling up you gas tanks over the next year on Exxon and Chevron stock instead, the returns on that investment will pay for most of your gasoline the following year. It's such a sure thing I'm surprised banks aren't loaning people money to buy stocks lol.
But, no, this has absolutely nothing to do with any kind of green but Exxon and Chevron shareholder dividends. Biden is *NOT* forcing oil companies to make ridiculous amounts of money against their will.
I looked at the profit margins you named. Exxon is earning 6.2% on $57.7 billion so far this tear, up from 4.7% on $57.5 billion in the same period last year.
DeleteChevron is earning 11.5% on 52.3 billion against 4.5% on $31.0 billion last year.
Chevron is certainly doing rather well, but I would not buy Exxon stock, and neither company could reasonably be accused of usurious profiteering.
Yes, but the Oil Companies have such GREAT ESG ratings which are critical to the World's Financial Investment cartels.... you can't be considered "green" without them in your portfolio!
DeleteNot restoring oil production to pre-Covid shutdown levels is "green." Just look at the tank of gas you could have bought instead of a share. Oil companies have no intention whatsoever to bring oil back down below $70 a barrel, much less lower than $100.
DeleteFascists would have put real guns against the heads of oil executives by now.
Storing the pre-Covid oil surplus in tankers created a tanker shortage. Once oil production came down to post-Covid levels, the tankers were sold for scrap. Only China has the steel production capacity to rebuild them all now... and it takes a lot of $100+ barrel oil to justify such a massive tanker building project. Is that why it's so "green"? I hear Germany is building 10 new LNG terminals...
DeleteMuch to the consternation of the German "green" movement.
Delete"oh noes stop it Biden you're making up post billions of dollars in profit for our shareholders!"
ReplyDeleteCome the F on.
Trump and Biden dumped trillions of dollars (printed out of thin air) into the economy during the Covid shutdowns so we could buy the gas to go to jobs we didn't have to go to, pay rent we didn't have to pay, do the parks and recreational activities and vacations that were shut down, buy the groceries and retail items that weren't on shelves anyway. Inflation galore. What to do? Unemploy a crapton of people, raise interest rates to cloud level, or overprice everything to soak back up all that "free" money In a Sam pulled out of his ethereal ass?
ReplyDeleteThe government and its boot on the necks of businesses have chosen option 2 and 3. We're now paying for the costs of not spending and having nothing to spend it on then. Nevermind that the dip in stock markets already rebounded.
*Uncle Sam
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty clear, the only thing government is good at anymore is screwing things up and creating crises.
DeleteAll that debt sitting of the Fed's balance sheets that they can't unload is what the taxpayers are now paying for with "inflation". The fact that the government decided to convert so much of it into M2 instead of M1 or M3 is a question for them. Maybe so Biden could say with a straight face that Americans have "never felt more financially comfortable" (since he made everyone who got a govt check a bit more comfortable).
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C'mon now. Trump made sure his name was on those checks before the first ones went out. Let's not deny Trump credit for his hard fought efforts to destroy the US economy (remember he wanted to spend even more than the barely budget-conscious Congress could cough up in one take; Biden just came in behind him and got the rest of Trump's request and more...) Biden policy *is* Trump policy...the very definition of insanity, doing the same stupid thing over and over and expecting a different result. It's hard to blame Biden for anything when absolutely anything novel or original to his administration didn't make it far out of his mouth before Congress including members of his own party shot it down. Biden can't simultaneously be an incompetent do-nothing and the active source of policies hurting Americans. I'm sorry, Biden's playing fiddle, but he didn't set shit on fire. We do need to replace him, but not with the guy with the matches. Osama bin Laden merely wanted to kill Americans. Trump wanted to make us globally irrelevant.
DeleteTrump agreed to 2 weeks worth of "stem the tide" Covid relief. Tony Fauci and the Deep State Democrats extended it for the rest of his term.
DeleteClimate change is a Ponzi scheme and it was Biden's cutting off Keystone that got us where we're at today?
ReplyDeleteHow well researched, fact checked, and intellectually stimulating.
And this gem: "Place the blame where it belongs. Biden’s economic imperatives are destroying America. Policies which increase the economic girth of the few while shrinking the bellies of the many is about chastisement."
We could start with:
a) It doesn't mention what policies.
b) It omits corporate skyrocketing profits.
c) It assumes the crises is only here rather than global.
a) It doesn't mention what policies.
Deleteb) It omits corporate skyrocketing profits.
c) It assumes the crises is only here rather than global.
a) I think we all know that the Green New Deal is the policy
b) Government policy doesn't "enable" corporate profits?
c) An assumption only made by an ass.
Future Carbon Dioxide was the reason why the pipeline was killed. There is no evidence that CO2 causes global warming, and is not a lagging indicator. Hence the "Ponzi scheme" nature of the green new deal. Activist policies enacted from bad or inconclusive science are bad policies.
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Deletea) the Trump policies that haven't changed because Biden can't get shit through Congress
ReplyDeleteb) the corporate decisions to deliver profits to shareholders
c) the whole world fired up their money printing presses to have something to do during Covid shutdowns
I don't blame Biden. He is a helpless hapless figurehead staring out from one of the eye holes of a shambolic cyclops that has been stuck on stupid for decades
DeleteI blame Biden for not even trying to pry open another eye.
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Why would he? After a four-year dose of the most far-left America-hating dipshit in the White House in nearly 100 years, all Biden has to do is be the "moderate" pause between whiplashes.
DeleteBecause doubling the national debt with every subsequent presidential administration is fiscally unsustainable, that's why. If it weren't for Manchin and Sinema, it would be $2 trillion higher tomorrow.
DeleteAt least Trump "tried".
ReplyDeletePlease add this comment to "Ronald":
DeleteRonald,
You are being a bit harsh. The average reader will spend 90 seconds - two minutes reading a blog. Blogging is micro journalism at its best. I do not spoon feed an educated readership. I trust the bone I toss out is already clothed mentally, with the research and education of my readership (which is in fact, highly educated).
I remember the day I pumped a tank of gas for $1.99/gallon under Trump. Now the price is inching close to the five dollar mark in the Dallas market. Today, at Aldi - a thirty percent jump in some of their brands. Let this sink in a bit. Not thirty percent over a year, but thirty percent in about two weeks. Aldi brand processed cheese slices? A leap from $1.45 to $1.89. Thousand Island salad dressing, small bottle? $3.47. I put it back on the shelf. There is no reason for this shit storm in a country which is rich in resources, technology and with a strong labor force. Corruption is the root cause and the tree of liberty is dying from drought because of inordinate greed. Freedom is indeed tied into economic opportunity. We are fast becoming a nation of serfs. Name your firstborn Oliver. There will be no silver spoon.
The Last English Prince - Tammy Swofford
At least Trump "tried".
DeleteRun America like a perennially bankrupt business leveraged by unpayable foreign debt, they said. It'll be fun, they said.
America isn't bankrupt and unable to pay it's debt? Hell, it isn't even capable of selling it's debt anymore. How many trillion does the Fed have on their books that they're to scared to try and sell as T-bills?
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TS, you make an argument that Biden is the culprit of the spiraling inflation yet disregard record corporate profit spikes, global shortages, and other post-COVID factors that played into it.
DeleteJust last week, there was a bill to prevent price gouging at the pump. Every single republican lawmaker voted no.
This would be the same republican party who've transferred more power and wealth to these very corporations who are raking in astronomical profits from price gouging.
This would be the same republican party who've spent years deregulating and monopolizing these very corporations.
This would be the same republican party who've abandoned their constituents in every way and are indebted to and beholden to these corporations.
Why should anyone, including the Trump cultist, Basket of Gullibles, Talibangelicas, or anyone else seriously and honestly believe that if republicans were returned to power, they'd go to work lowering the profits of their corporate gouging donors in order to ease the pain of their constituents at the pump or at the check out counter?
What we're seeing isn't a product of Biden's policies.
a bill to prevent price gouging at the pump. Every single republican lawmaker voted no.
DeleteAre you a Venezuelan economic advisor, RJW, cuz that's what they did? What's their inflation rate now...2,000% annually?
-FJ
What we're seeing isn't a product of Biden's policies.
DeleteYes, thank you Senators Manchin, Sinema, and the RNC.
Do not know ANYTHING about economics, RJW? Cuz people as stupid as you shouldn't be allowed to post.
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The Fed currently has $9 trillion on it's books that it can't convert to T-bills. And with Build Back Better, it would have been $2t higher.
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Given the chance, RJW would vote tomorrow for the De-Kulakization of America.
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Joe Biden is making the oil companies rich by taking 7% of the world's oil and gas supply (Russia) off the market.
Delete...when American domestic production alone could drive global oil prices below zero and has before, when Russian oil was still on the world market? I agree it's a restrained supply problem. I'll even agree it's a global restrained supply problem. I won't agree that US oil companies are not part of the problem, as they're taken US oil off the global market as well...
Deletelol! Except for the fact that the oil companies are being prevented from implementing any new aggregate efficiencies like the Keystone Pipeline or from building refineries (thanks EPA). Can you spell N-I-M-B-Y?
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Yup. I can also spell BS. What happened to all the oil reserves, shale fields, pipelines, railways, refineries, storage facilities, and tanker ships that existed when the US became an oil expoting country that drove the price of oil below zero...
Delete....without a Keystone XL pipeline?
Oh yeah, that's right. US oil companies curbed production to drive the price of oil back up. Biden didn't do that, their shareholders did. Go vandalize a gas pump with a tank full of gas' worth of Chinese printed stickers that read that.
The Canadian Keystone Pipeline oil wasn't headed to a US gulf refinery for processing? Who knew?
Deletebtw - Where are they "cutting back"?
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DeleteInteresting article and well written, but the statement that the Keystone XL pipeline "would have provided 800,000 barrels of oil per day" is misleading. The oil in question is already being shipped to American refineries by rail. The pipeline would have shipped that oil at less cost and with greater safety to the environment and to the people who live near rail lines. It's ironic that "tree huggers" actually inflict more danger to the environment by cancelling the pipeline, and raise the cost of energy as a bonus.
ReplyDeleteI am very saddened by this. Our government is unrecognizable. I cannot stress how far the left has destroyed so much good former presidents tried to do (exception Obama). It is a sad state of affairs when the people we elect to represent the people represent everything but the people and do not care about the citizenry that has elected them. The latter goes across both isles of our Congress and Senate.
ReplyDeleteLayla,
DeleteIt is a sad state of affairs when the people we elect to represent the people represent everything but the people and do not care about the citizenry that has elected them.
Not only a sad state of affairs, but also putting everyone but those at the top of the food chain on the road to serfdom.
Jayhawk: Just did a quick Google search and found this link.
ReplyDeletehttps://worldoil.com/news/2021/2/24/keystone-xl-s-demise-shifts-crude-oil-shipments-to-railways
Problematic, the increased cost of rail freight charges as opposed shipment through a pipeline. I also remember the shock and awe of interviews given by those constructing the rail who awakened from one day to the next to find they no longer had a means to support their families.
Tammy Swofford
Errr.. constructing the pipeline. smile
ReplyDeleteNonsense. America was a net oil exporter with production so far through the roof that oil barrel prices actually went negative below zero... With the same proven oil reserves, same shale fracking fields, same pipelines and railway infrastructure we have in place right now. *America was a net oil exporter without Keystone XL being more than a stupid idea to give Canada a warm water port to China*
ReplyDeleteThere's bullshit, and then there's oil company press releases. The bullshit is insulting enough.
"Ecological measures" have been corrupted by many hands and opportunists who get rich when they make others panic. Rather like other recent events.
ReplyDelete"Big oil" was on the road to becoming big oil due to government favor. It had the added advantage of being the most energy dense fuel ever harnessed by man. Green energy advocates and dupe are seeking elevation by the same path. Unfortunately, save for nuclear, they sorely lack the advantage of energy density. Still, polypragmosyne harpies cheer this on as long as it buys votes, media adulation and personal remuneration.
BAYSIDER
``Antiquity knew little of those motor forces; they only employed living human beings, weights, waterfalls, or wind. Those forces all being developed by nature itself, it was necessary, in order to apply them, to know only the effect of the lever.... But those assemblies of levers are only inert masses, merely able to transmit the action of moving forces without ever increasing them: It is the motor force which is everything. Modern man has discovered several motor forces, or rather has created them: because, though their elements be necessarily pre-existing, in nature, their dissemination nullifies them in this respect; they only acquire the quality of moving forces through artificial means, such as the expansive force of water reduced to steam, as the upward force which launches the aerostatic balloon.''(fn12)
DeleteThis notion fundamentally refutes the mechanical interpretation of the laws of thermodynamics, as well as the simplistic interpretation of the principle of conservation of energy attributed to Carnot. It also destroys the stupid arguments of today's ecology movement for solar energy, for new ``diffuse'' sources of energy.
If man wants to progress, he must create new forms of energy of greater and greater densities. This implies precise social and political considerations which Carnot was to elaborate in his first writings, ``Eloge de Vauban'' (``In Praise of Vauban'') (1784) and ``Memoire sur les Places Fortes'' (``Memorandum on Fortifications'') (1788).
-FJ
btw - "polypragmosyne"... genius!
Delete...describes RJW to a tee. Move over Mrs. Gundy!
DeleteAs a prior LCDR, I believe in CoC. (chain of command) This unbearable inflation is happening on President Biden's watch. He is ultimately responsible. We can sling poop like chimpanzees for hours. This does not change what I am witnessing first hand in my city: increased poverty, desperation and serfdom. Can we merely admit that America is in trouble?
ReplyDeleteI agree with anonymous. Biden is responsible for this mess we see going on in our daily lives at the grocery store, gas pump, clothing stores - just everywhere. He is incompetent. Period!
ReplyDeleteWith ALL the Failed Policies, and EVERYTHING that this President has done without ONE singel accomplishment, you can sling la the BS your want to, like Chimpanzees for hours. He can blame and point his bony finger at anyone he wants to from Putin, to Trump, This does not change what what we, and this country has been witnessing first hand for over a yeat and a half,in my city, and throughout the rest of the country., . Can we merely admit that America is in trouble.
ReplyDeleteI suppose discussing the validity of climate change and global warming and if fossil fuels play a role would be a bit too liberally?
ReplyDeleteIs Salt Lake drying up a hoax? Are those fake sharks on the beach? Melting glaciers fake news?
Do we not need no stinking clean energy?
The phenomenon you describe are all real. They are also not unprecedented. The West is going through a once every 100-year drought.
DeleteHow hubristic are human beings? Whining that mother nature doesn't do what we want her to?
DeleteGo look up the Turgenev quote about being crushed under nature's wheels.
Silver said. regarding Ron's question... "The phenomenon you describe are all real. They are also not unprecedented. The West is going through a once every 100-year drought."
DeleteI think an argument can be made that the situation is not unprecedented but I'll concede that point for now.
My questions run along these lines... should we be doing anything? Or should we just accept what's happening as Mother Nature flexing her muscles?
Are there any behaviors we as humans should, or could change that might impact the situation or even reverse it?
As someone living out west, I'll tell you, the idea of Lake Mead becoming a dead pool is not just some existential threat. It is a very real possibility. The same for Powell up river.
Everyone out west should be thinking about this. Because continued low water in the Colorado River system, is going to impact the entire US. Be it increased food costs, or even access to cheap hydroelectric power.
And that's before we get to that ice cold glass of water.
Anybody remember the Dust Bowl?
Delete...because NASA/NOAA have erased it from the climate record.
Delete...so in response to your question, "Do we not need no stinking clean energy?...
Delete....my response is, "Got nuclear?"
-FJ
Okay so SF, with your assessment that the global disruptions are perhaps a precedented environmental cleansing, or, well, something, can we conclude that your beliefs are that climate change and/or global warming are somewhere between a hoax or maybe overhyped?
DeleteThat really wasn’t meant to be some “gotcha” question but rather for some clarity in your thoughts of addressing global warming issues which will continue to be an ongoing argument in political debates.
I don't know what you mean by "environmental cleansing," as if Gaia is doing some kind of purge... Let's focus on the facts and leave anthropomorphic speculation to the kooks and alarmists.
DeleteWe have temperature records going back to 1875 supposedly show a warming trend, which would be expected, since we were coming out of a "little ice age."
We also have ice core samples and other evidence that reveals increases in carbon dioxide come after temperature increases, which would indicate carbon dioxide increases did not cause temperature increases.
This is an incredibly complex topic, I love the environment and I support laws that prevent us from despoiling it. Having said that, life is full of tradeoffs, and we need to make wise decisions about those tradeoffs.
I am also not agains 'green energy,' but some governments and groups are pushing mandates past what green energy can economically provide.
Finally, in the human nature category, we have groups of people using the 'climate crisis' to seize more power and control to push other around, while exempting themselves from the onerous regulations they want to burden the rest of us with.
Hope that answers your question.
Well, a better answer would have been: "yes, climate change is real and it is man made". The reason that would have been a better answer is because there is overwhelming would wide scientific consensus documentation supporting it.
DeleteI'm no tree hugger by any stretch and I question how our grid is suppose to support an additional 276 million vehicles pulling 30 to 50 amps around the clock. But I can acknowledge what is real which is climate change and that it's man made.
Less truthful is better? For who?
Delete...those who receive Government funding for "Scientific" Climate Research?
DeleteRonald,
DeleteNo. My answer is better. If you don't like my answers, don't ask me silly questions.
My answer is better because the earth has been warming and cooling since the beginning, all without the help of human beings, internal combustion engines and BBQ grills.
Do we have an impact on the climate? Probably, but that is the price of humanity living on earth, and we should take sensible measures balance that impact.
I never said I didn't like your answer.
DeleteIn fact, I enjoy watching a good tap dance.
We can tell you do, although you are really crappy at it, comical almost. You should learn from me how to deliver a straight answer. You should thank me. I'm schooling you for free.
DeleteDave, do you think perhaps lake meads being at unprecedented low levels has anything whatsoever to do with the unprecedented high number of people moving to the West?
ReplyDeletePeople need to display a little bit of thinking
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DeleteSilver... at least in Nevada, the answer is no. For example, in Las Vegas, home to over 2 million people, over 90% of what we take out of Lake Mead for tap and water faucet use, including at the big hotels, is recaptured and returned to the system.
DeleteIn Utah, it is nowhere close to that number, nor in Arizona.
If you look across our landscape, there are few verdant green lawns, like you'd see in CA. And that number will soon drop as cities must remove "non essential" grass, think road medians and even golf courses are moving to more of what some call "target golf" where there are expectations for where your shot should land. Otherwise you are in the badlands. With lots of lovely rocks.
Now, are we sometimes wasteful? Of course. Every homeowner sometimes is. But internal numbers I've learned from friends in the water business here does not back up your hypothesis.
One area out west where we are struggling though is in agriculture. Simply put, we could save bazillions of gallons of water if the entire west was as water conscious as Las Vegas and we changed our agriculture industry.
But America is in no mood to see another price increase on their fruits and vegetables just because we're in a drought.
:)
DeleteWhat wasn't said in the above video was much more interesting than what was said in it.
DeleteI wonder just how reliable this data actually is.
Delete...not very. The future use forecasts are cr*p! (See tables)
DeleteA-1 water smart landscapes and turf removal savings (10.4 billion gallons total)(102 million gallons 2018) have been squeezed dry... very little left there.
A-2 water efficient technologies savings (1.5 billion gallons total)(7.6 million gallons 2018) are fading fast...
A-3 pool cover savings (523 million gallons total)(11.6 million gallons 2018) also fading fast
A-4 smart controllers (26 million gallons total)(5.7 million gallons 2018) currently hold most promise, although may be starting to fade.... even though the numbers look pathetic compared to other historical savings measures these should be MUCH bigger.
A-5 savings projections don't match historical trends of fading returns
A-6 cum savings are a wet dream that save nothing based on Table A-5 fantasy projections
Water use is going to start to rise, not continue to fall. I'd start auditing the sh*t out of these water "managers" if I were you, Dave.
btw - If the water level drops another 28 feet, your damn isn't going to produce enough electricity to keep the lights on the strip lit
DeleteFigure 2.2 would appear to be the most important graph in the packet, but it fails to account for the fact that most of that "residential use" metered water gets returned as "indoor use" water from the infographic 60-40 outdoor-indoor water split...so when you subtract the 40% recycling from the metered residential figures... the golf courses/ resorts/ public areas are likely actually "wasting" the water and not re-using it. Figure 2.2 is masking this.
DeleteDave, you missed the point. More people moving to the west = more water usage.
DeleteAdd in the historic drought, and yeah, reservoirs are going to be a lot lower.
Actually, Dave is correct... the "smart" water conservation measures have largely offset these population growth figures... but my point is that future savings from conservation measures will not be able to keep up, and consumption will soon begin to rise again.
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The LV basin water use efficiency is approaching its' "maximum"... rendering the entire system increasingly "fragile" and susceptible to catastrophic failure daily.
DeleteAs the chart 2 posts above shows, Lake Meade no longer has a "sufficient upside" to recover and refill. The bathtub "ring" is now "baked in" to future water availabilities... without any further population growth.
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Had it not been for the water conservation measures implemented in 2000... Lake Meade would be bone dry today, and Las Vegas would be a "literal" desert. The population has grown to the point of ensuring future unsustainability.
DeleteFJ,
DeleteThe population has grown to the point of ensuring future unsustainability.
Also true in Southern California.
Building cities in the desert... Let that sink in.
DeleteFor those who think that humans are causing the Western droughts...
DeleteAnon... I assume you are -FJ. That number means nothing. Density? Since 1979, when I moved here, the Las Vegas Valley has grown from approx 450,000 people to about 2.2 million today.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what density, in this instance means.
But again, most of the "smarts", a local Vegas term, agree that the water problem, as it relates to us, is not of our making.
However, perhaps along the entire system, that case could be made, because those other states are nowhere as water thrifty as we are, save perhaps Colorado.
In that state, a few requested development permits have started to be declined for lack of proof of water. So the governing agencies said sure go ahead, but you, as the developer, must guarantee and pay all fees to provide water, because the state does not believe we have the resources.
Also, for all thinking on this...
For years, state and local agencies buried their heads in the local silt deposited by the river along its banks. And annually allocated more water than was available, which just like what happens in DC, means we ran a deficit. Think like this... we approved allocations of 125% of the incoming water, always believing the next big tax cut, oops, sorry, storm, would refill of coffers.
Lots of issues...
But we're still at What do we do?
Human populations are expected to continue to grow in the Colorado River basin. Compared to population numbers in 2000, the U.S. Census Bureau expects an average of a 53% increase in population in the year 2030 in the Colorado River basin states. This new population growth will all require new and more water, and place even more demand on the Colorado River and its tributaries.
DeleteDid you watch South Park's "Streaming Wars"? Mr. PiPi had the answer.... ;)
-FJ
ps - Imagine if you built high density housing for entry-level Strivers on all those brown/former golf courses... homelessness? *poof*
Delete-FJ
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DeleteBut again, most of the "smarts", a local Vegas term, agree that the water problem, as it relates to us, is not of our making.
Meanwhile... a guys gotta do something while he waits for the next show at the Bellagio...
Don't take this the wrong way, Dave, but I think your "SMARTS"... aren't.
:P
DeleteEver hear of Garrett Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons". Your "smarts" exemplify a failure to erode the myth the administrators of the commons before tragedy, inevitably, strikes (see last paragraph).
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link for TotC...
DeleteSorry for the off topic. John my husband told me there have been death threats to Justice Cavanaugh.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bing.com/search?q=justice+cavanagh&cvid=4938b658fed843289da3d59dd8a47f82&aqs=edge.0.0j69i57j0l7.5373j0j1&pglt=299&FORM=ANNTA1&PC=EDGEDB
ReplyDeleteOnly in America -- in places like Texas -- can a kid walk into a gun store and purchase an AR-15, no questions asked, no permit required.
That, IMO, is the very definition of insanity.
I'm so thankful I live in Massachusetts.
I guess all those federal background checks aren't required in states like Texas... so why, again, do you now insist upon more?
DeleteThere are currently 20 million AR-15's in circulation... any idea how many in Massachusetts (since that's where the guns were made)?
DeleteOnly in America -- in places like Texas -- can a kid walk into a gun store and purchase an AR-15, no questions asked, no permit required.
ReplyDeleteSo hoping that AOW or SF dedicate a blog post to knock down the absurd lies trafficked by the gun control cabal. Too many in this nation, on both sides, wish to legislate by emotion, rather than reason.
CI,
DeleteSo hoping that AOW or SF dedicate a blog post to knock down the absurd lies trafficked by the gun control cabal. Too many in this nation, on both sides, wish to legislate by emotion, rather than reason.
I know some about that, but my knowledge isn't comprehensive.
SF? Warren?
On further thought, there may not be enough reasonable* gun control Leftists interested in defending their position here.
Delete* Reasonable not in their position, but their willingness to conduct rational discourse with an open mind.
Gas prices in New York went down 16 Cents after a New York Tax break, and that “Tax Break” lasted about 24 hours, and then continued to rise very quickly and is now listed as an average of $5.01 a gallon, just about One Week after the 16 cent decease.
ReplyDeleteThe democrats have crossed the line into actual, open and proud evi,They have crossed the line and didn’t even hesitate,.they just BLOCKED THE VOTE to provide Supreme Court Justices and their Families…Families with Children,…..But they want more protection of Black Lives Matter,, and the Antifa Brown Shirts of the Democrat party outside their homes and an actual murder attempt at the home of Brett Kavanaugh.
ReplyDeleteBack in March 2020, Schumer made a speech outside the Supreme Court as justices heard a case about a Louisiana abortion law, warning Kavanaugh and Justice Neil Gorsuch—former President Donald Trump's other appointee at the time—that they could face dire consequences for their "Awful Decisions."
His exact words were: "I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price," Schumer, who was then minority leader, said at the time. "You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."
We have a new post up on Terrorism. Please chime in.
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