Iran Escalation

Dive Bar Casanova said:
High fuel prices here because of Refinery closures by Newsom.
Iran won't be free until the locals take up arms and the non political Army joins them. That may happen.
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Because we've shut down local wells, we also import a lot of oil from the ME. CA represents over half of the total ME oil purchases in the US.

So yeah, the Progressive LGBTQ+ state hellbent on environmentalism makes it impossible to buy oil from Americans that rolls downhill to refineries, and instead buys oil delivered on ships that burn bunker fuel, might spill their entire contents into the ocean, and each pollute more than the entire fleet of CA cars per year from Islamic fundamentalist countries that throw gays from buildings. In the name of equality and environmentalism.
 
BaBaBouy said:
Imagine the climate change folks upset because renewable energy is getting more and more sexy…
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They're definitely torn: war in Iran causes high gas prices that force people to EVs, but also DJT Bad.

EVs still cost slightly more than a fuel efficient gas car to "fuel" right now though. Gotta have solar surplus for it to (sorta) pencil out.
 
Rockwood said:
They're definitely torn: war in Iran causes high gas prices that force people to EVs, but also DJT Bad.

EVs still cost slightly more than a fuel efficient gas car to "fuel" right now though. Gotta have solar surplus for it to (sorta) pencil out.
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Sadly, the "New Green Scam" was and still is a fraud.
Follow the money answers most questions.
Who profits?
How Much?
Will taxes go up?
Why?
Who lobbied the lawmakers to approve these stupid changes that never would actually work?
1) The power grid does not have capacity to support EV sales increase,
2) Wind power can not support reliable power production.
The cost to construct the wind towers exceeds the return on investment.
The wind towers are made in China. Who thought that was a good source?
The towers have a life span of 10 to to 20 years. There is no safe place to
Put the broken fans and towers.
3) Mandating "Alternate Power" reduced the availability for the grid.
Witness the deaths in Texas when their grid failed causing an outage.
4) Solar farms are a joke. They spoil the land killing any and all local flora and fauna.
Also sourced in China. Who profits? China. Short lifespan, excessive maintenance.
5) The higher prices for electricity today is based on the failure of regulating the
re-selling power to cronies. Can you say "Enron"? The power market is a fraud
designed to suck money from the taxpayers.
6) Los Angeles County jumped on the free money scam back in the 1980s.
They were being run by stupid engineers not business people. Nuff Said.
7) Sadly, I was involved in the scam as I was employed there and was assigned to run the entire energy department. So , yes, I know who, what, and why.
And, DJT not that bad after all.
The good news is Los Angeles County did not source our steam turbines from China.
Japan was selected and they had great steam turbines, (Fugi)
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JDMeister said:
Sadly, the "New Green Scam" was and still is a fraud.
Follow the money answers most questions.
Who profits?
How Much?
Will taxes go up?
Why?
Who lobbied the lawmakers to approve these stupid changes that never would actually work?
1) The power grid does not have capacity to support EV sales increase,
2) Wind power can not support reliable power production.
The cost to construct the wind towers exceeds the return on investment.
The wind towers are made in China. Who thought that was a good source?
The towers have a life span of 10 to to 20 years. There is no safe place to
Put the broken fans and towers.
3) Mandating "Alternate Power" reduced the availability for the grid.
Witness the deaths in Texas when their grid failed causing an outage.
4) Solar farms are a joke. They spoil the land killing any and all local flora and fauna.
Also sourced in China. Who profits? China. Short lifespan, excessive maintenance.
5) The higher prices for electricity today is based on the failure of regulating the
re-selling power to cronies. Can you say "Enron"? The power market is a fraud
designed to suck money from the taxpayers.
6) Los Angeles County jumped on the free money scam back in the 1980s.
They were being run by stupid engineers not business people. Nuff Said.
7) Sadly, I was involved in the scam as I was employed there and was assigned to run the entire energy department. So , yes, I know who, what, and why.
And, DJT not that bad after all.
The good news is Los Angeles County did not source our steam turbines from China.
Japan was selected and they had great steam turbines, (Fugi)
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Whoa, easy there big fella. :ROFLMAO:

I only said it sorta pencils out with solar. The array cost still has to be factored in...

That all said, my array has definitely paid itself off. Green Deal can KMA.
 
JDMeister said:
Sadly, the "New Green Scam" was and still is a fraud.
Follow the money answers most questions.
Who profits?
How Much?
Will taxes go up?
Why?
Who lobbied the lawmakers to approve these stupid changes that never would actually work?
1) The power grid does not have capacity to support EV sales increase,
2) Wind power can not support reliable power production.
The cost to construct the wind towers exceeds the return on investment.
The wind towers are made in China. Who thought that was a good source?
The towers have a life span of 10 to to 20 years. There is no safe place to
Put the broken fans and towers.
3) Mandating "Alternate Power" reduced the availability for the grid.
Witness the deaths in Texas when their grid failed causing an outage.
4) Solar farms are a joke. They spoil the land killing any and all local flora and fauna.
Also sourced in China. Who profits? China. Short lifespan, excessive maintenance.
5) The higher prices for electricity today is based on the failure of regulating the
re-selling power to cronies. Can you say "Enron"? The power market is a fraud
designed to suck money from the taxpayers.
6) Los Angeles County jumped on the free money scam back in the 1980s.
They were being run by stupid engineers not business people. Nuff Said.
7) Sadly, I was involved in the scam as I was employed there and was assigned to run the entire energy department. So , yes, I know who, what, and why.
And, DJT not that bad after all.
The good news is Los Angeles County did not source our steam turbines from China.
Japan was selected and they had great steam turbines, (Fugi)
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Cliff Notes please.
 
I've been starting to feel like an Iranian citizen getting fed government propaganda about how we're winning.

Can someone please explain to me how we can go in, totally annihilate Iran's military assets, tell the people to reclaim their county, as if we freed them, but Iran continues to launch missiles, control the straight, attack Israel, attacks on all the middle east countries, and all the things that we're seeing?
Our government gave the impression that they were a stone age government with no chance in hell, but here we are.
Did we underestimate them? Are we getting fed a bunch of bullshit,? And don't tell me we have our hands tied. Trump does what Trump wants to do.

And then you have the timeline of what Trump's been saying.
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When this first happened, I was l thinking EFF YEAH!!! About time...Iranian people can have their country back!
What a sh*t show this has turned into.
 
LegitDuner said:
I've been starting to feel like an Iranian citizen getting fed government propaganda about how we're winning.

Can someone please explain to me how we can go in, totally annihilate Iran's military assets, tell the people to reclaim their county, as if we freed them, but Iran continues to launch missiles, control the straight, attack Israel, attacks on all the middle east countries, and all the things that we're seeing?
Our government gave the impression that they were a stone age government with no chance in hell, but here we are.
Did we underestimate them? Are we getting fed a bunch of bullshit,? And don't tell me we have our hands tied. Trump does what Trump wants to do.

And then you have the timeline of what Trump's been saying.
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JDMeister said:
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As usual with modern media and politics, the troof lies somewhere in between.
 
We are screwed in Ca with gas prices, the state is too dependent on those dollars now. And we all know Democrats don't know how to cut spending.

There is a new world order that is happening. US now has "some kind of control" of 50% of China's Oil they import, with the Venezuela and Iran Regime change. This impacts virtually everything in the world. Trump has put the US back into control, his next goal is to get some order with Cuba and strengthen our defensive ties with Greenland, and the entire continent will be on our side.

I also see the days of supporting every other ally in other parts of the world diminished, Nato is making this easy. We don't need all those bases in Europe, other than a few anymore. We are proving with Aircraft carriers and long-range bombers that we can attack anyone with ease. No need to spend money in other countries. Bring more troops home.
 
Cookie said:
We are screwed in Ca with gas prices, the state is too dependent on those dollars now. And we all know Democrats don't know how to cut spending.

There is a new world order that is happening. US now has "some kind of control" of 50% of China's Oil they import, with the Venezuela and Iran Regime change. This impacts virtually everything in the world. Trump has put the US back into control, his next goal is to get some order with Cuba and strengthen our defensive ties with Greenland, and the entire continent will be on our side.

I also see the days of supporting every other ally in other parts of the world diminished, Nato is making this easy. We don't need all those bases in Europe, other than a few anymore. We are proving with Aircraft carriers and long-range bombers that we can attack anyone with ease. No need to spend money in other countries. Bring more troops home.
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That just makes us a big target in my opinion. I'm all for being an isolationist country but we have to have good relationships with other countries.
 
LegitDuner said:
That just makes us a big target in my opinion. I'm all for being an isolationist country but we have to have good relationships with other countries.
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No we don't.....we have to relationships, but we don't have to take other countries shit, like we've been doing for decades......Spain Fucked Around and is about to find out......they screwed themselves....as did most of Nato...We now know we CANNOT count on England to help us....or most of nato. Time to cut those bitches loose.
 
Realbadlarry said:
No we don't.....we have to relationships, but we don't have to take other countries shit, like we've been doing for decades......Spain Fucked Around and is about to find out......they screwed themselves....as did most of Nato...We now know we CANNOT count on England to help us....or most of nato. Time to cut those bitches loose.
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Yeah I get it.
And I wish we could pull that off but you have less than half the country that would support what we're talking about. There's always a bigger guy. May not be today, . maybe not tomorrow, but some country will test us and will they have the support of the globe or will we? We are rich in natural resources and oils as well.

This is all a pipe dream anyways. If not the next administration, it'll be the next one after that will be groveling and kissing the whole world's ass.
 
Good relationships...YES. But support them financially...NO. Currently we give money to everyone directly or indirectly. Those bases in other countries are huge to their local economies. For example, we have two bases in Spain alone, we need to examine if they are needed anymore, one Naval and the other Air Force. I bet we could get rid of the AF one. We can consolidate most of this into Italy, where we do have a huge military presence.

Time for other countries to step up, we can no longer support countries that don't support us.
 
So the US and Iran agree to a cease fire and then almost immediately, Iran goes back to fighting and striking ships in the strait. THIS is reason enough to end this crap and put and end to the regime in Iran. Scorched earth. So tired of Iran.
 
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