Democrats, especially their “progressive” wing, have for years claimed to be the party of the worker, the little guy/gal, the underdog.
This is posited, at least by the class that chants the chanting points, as in contrast to the GOP, the “party of big business”.
And what does Berg’s Seventh Law tell us about everything Democrats say about their contrast with Republicans?
That’s right – it’s covering for their own stances:
No one is paying much attention, but Washington is building up a vast new multitrillion-dollar welfare class: corporate America.
Deep inside President Joe Biden’s budget are hundreds of billions of dollars of loans, grants and loan guarantees for corporate America. This Aid to Dependent Corporations is most prevalent in the area of renewable energy. Despite more than $100 billion already doled out to wind and solar companies over the past 30 years, the Biden plan would enrich often-very wealthy investors in solar and wind plants with another $100 to $200 billion in the president’s green energy scheme.
Forty years after Ronald Reagan, the old lefty saw “the real welfare queens are the CEOs” is finally true.
Hilarious!!
I don’t remember you getting your knickers in a twist over the previous administration’s $30 billion in (vote buying) payments to farmers driven to offset the effects of that administration’s failed trade war.
I don’t remember Emery being particularly bothered by the $500B that Obama used to bribe corporations ostensibly making green products. Hey! now I know why they call them green!
Woop-Woop!!
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jdm.
Yup! Blatant case of vote buying or payback for filling Obumbler’s personal coffers. Funny! the CEO of Solyndra was a big bundler for the Democrats and he lied his ass off to get that $535 million loan, only to close the company, laying off about 120 people, but walking away with a couple million in bonuses. Typical crony capitalism, as practiced by the Democrats and condoned by the likes of Emery and his ilk.
Think Nazi Palsy Pelosi or Gropey Joe care about lower and lower middle class people paying almost $5.00 a gallon for gas? If you have to ask…
kinlaw,
Yea, I’m still waiting for for their explanation on how lower income Americans, probably in debt up to their chins, with terrible credit scores, are going to be able to buy their required electric cars, let alone the $2,500 to $3,000 it will cost to wire a charging station in their houses or apartments.
Boss, I’m not even lower income, and I’m planning my car purchases specifically to avoid electric golf carts and their related expenses. I guess I theoretically could afford one, but between the extra cost and stopping to recharge every couple hundred miles to recharge for an hour or so, no, thank you.
And since lithium is the lightest metal, good luck getting big improvements in battery capacity/weight. We are at a point where pure physics limits us.
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bike, hydrogen cells. Whether you like it or not (I happen to think it is a logical progression) but electric cars are the future. But NOT the plugins with batteries. Those are the textbook example of goobernments and their cronies picking winners to enrich themselves without ANY regard for science, logic or progress. That fucking move set us back decades. And I suspect driven by chinese interests that control Li and battery production. But hydrogen CAN be handled safely with today’s technology, the exhaust is water, it can be refilled just like gasoline. All we need is infrastructure. And hey, we did not have infrastructure for gasoline and diesel and propane tank stations and look at us know. But when goobernment gets to choose the winners, we all lose, other then their fucking cronies.
JPA, I’d agree that fuel cells are more likely, whether that’s extracted from gasoline/other fuels or liquid hydrogen put into a tank. I’m leaning towards fossil fuels with Carnot efficiency in fuel cells of about 50%, since containing liquid and gaseous hydrogen takes some seals that generally “don’t price out well when compared to typical automotive components.”
Which also means that there’s a chance that internal combustion doesn’t get replaced at all, because the same advances in metallurgy and the Carnot cycle can occur there, too. There are some older technologies that are simply hard to displace.
bike, you are making a presumption that is patently false – advances in metallurgy and the Carnot cycle can occur there, too They will not. Just look at the VW Group. They announced they stopped any and all development of ICE. We are done. Stick a fork in it. Move on and shut down the buggy whip factory. Gear heads and race nuts drive the technology and progress in the car industry, and pound for pound and price, ICE cannot beat electric on the drag strip and on the road circuit. We just have to speed things up to relegate batteries and plug-ins to the dustbin of history.
JPA, yes, VW threw in the towel, but Toyota and Honda did not. I think that the high cost, monetarily and ecologically, of rare earths is going to slow the rush to electrics and fuel cells alike.
No doubt that electrics can be fun, but quite frankly, I’m driving from Rochester to NW Indiana today, and there isn’t an electric out there that wouldn’t impose a couple extra hours to that trip to recharge. There (lithium is element #3) probably never will be. Fuel cells need to prove themselves in terms of output, economics, and usage of rare earths and the like.
A lot of this reminds me of how for the past 40 years, disk drives were on the brink of oblivion. It’s only now that they’re being replaced, and nearline 7200rpm drives are still selling like gangbusters. I anticipate the same kind of thing for internal combustion engines.
bike, ahem… it is Toyota and Honda who are building infrastructure and hydrogen filling stations in Japan and have H2 cell vehicles on the road. That towel had been thrown and driven over… Fuel cells are not batteries and H2 engines are more efficient than ICE. You know, as much as I like to write about, do not believe me, learn for yourself. Based on your statements you have a lot of catch up to do.
Oh, and there is that thing called an extension to Moore’s law. Technololgy develops exponentially fast, so what took 40 years before will take 4 now.
Fuel cells are not batteries – sorry! They are batteries, but not in the sense of storage of energy but generating energy.from hydrogen fuel. Very, VERY, different from plug-ins.
JPA, fuel cells get you to 50% efficiency, modern internal combustion about half that. Given that ICE efficiency has about doubled since I was a kid for passenger vehicles, it’s not entirely clear to me that the efficiency a few years out will allow fuel cells to displace the ICE. They’ve been talking about this for decades after all.
For my part, hybrids make some sense, electrics make little to no sense, and fuel cells are TBD. We might joke that fuel cells are the power source of the future–and perhaps they always will be!