In 2007 I paid $3000 for a 1999 Pontiac Grand Prix with 150000 miles on it for my 16 year old son to drive to school. Today it has 205000 miles and is still going strong, the AC still works! Here in north Florida a good car can be found $3000 again.

You don't have to make people do anything. You have to stop people from doing things. Stop people from mining coal, stop people from drilling oil and gas wells, and stop people from off loading oil tankers. After that conservation will take care of itself. You may have to stop some food riots but everything else will work itself out.

Thank you for your very intelligible reply. I'm a disabled old guy and often try to post things after I have taken my medication. I have multiply sites that I visit every day to see what the newest theories are. At Zero Hedge it's all the Jewish bankers fault. At Finite Earth the oil is going to run out and then all the spent fuel rods at every nuclear power plant are going to catch fire and doom us all. At CommonDreams, ThinkProgress, and the other green sites it's the Republicans fault.

People with nothing think a sq ft solar panel is wonderful. People with 3000 sq ft homes are going to be less impressed. My 85 year old father plowed with mules as a teenager. He was 15 before his family got electricity. Civilization will continue without oil but it's not going to be bright and shiny. The oil is not going to run out quick enough to suit many people. There will be force involved to prevent people from using coal and oil. I'll keep you in mind when I see it.

They should have done what Kwik Loc did. They make the machine (and more impotently) the plastic tabs used to close produce bags and bread wrappers. They trademarked the shape of the tab and no other shape will work in their machine, no DRM needed.

Farmers grow corn to sell to ranchers who sell beef to anyone who wants to buy it. Forcing people not to sell beef will not feed anyone, the farmers will simply plant less corn. The gleaming, Apple store solar powered world you envision is impossible. The dirty real horsepower world of 1840 is much more likely.

Not to say climate change isn't happening, it just isn't that much of a problem now. Some have postulated a WW II sized mobilization will be necessary to fight climate change. In 1940 England was in imminent danger of being invaded but the military had to draft people who wouldn't fight otherwise. A climate draft will be necessary. I already live on a farm. I hope you like heat and bugs.

I don't imagine I would have any trouble. Of course I am an old white guy and by the time I figured out how to take a video with my phone the action would be over. Also my son is a lawyer and a best friend's son is a county judge. YMMV

Disability is a hard thing to prove. If after walking down to the mailbox I collapse in front yard how can you prove I'm not faking?

I remember in the 50's sometimes the workers picking up potatoes in my father's field would bring their children with them. There was usually a teen girl watching the babies. Modern farming methods eliminated millions of jobs.

As productivity has increased the need for workers has greatly diminished. Securing the border and bringing manufacturing back will still not supply enough jobs. There is no simple solution. Supposedly the oil is going to run out and the economy crash so no one will be worrying about welfare or disability.

I watch home improvement shows. Often the electrician will come in and install a bigger breaker box. I always want to know where the extra wire length comes from. Every box I have ever been in ( quite a few, I was an industrial electrician) has no extra wire. When a building is wired the electrical installer takes the slack out each wire he is hooking up and snips it off. Most panels have wires entering from the top and bottom so moving the box wont get you any slack.

I had a co-worker who would leave an extra loop of wire for each circuit, that way if you had a breaker burn out you could cut the wire back. This made for a very stuffed box but he meticulously routed and zip tied each line. He was a trained aircraft electrician.

The main reason I didn't go to college was I hated to write and couldn't spell. This was 1970 when not going to college meant you got drafted and I was. I too am left handed. I took some college courses in 1997. With the internet and Word on my computer writing reports was fun. I also found out C++ programming was boring and went back to my automated packaging machine tech job.

You did watch the Rodny King riots. Do you remember the white guy that was dragged from his truck and a protester smashed a concrete block onto his head and then danced a jig around the severely injured man?

About ten years ago I had a similar problem. My phone service provider was also an ISP. I was assured their number would be a local call. It wasn't and I got a $750 long distance bill. My son was home studying for his bar exam. I siced him on them. Soon after I got a check for $750. Then I also got a $750 credit on my phone bill.

You left out gut. Republicans spew disinformation and then they gut programs.

I visit climate change web sites to keep up with trends. The newest are coercion and WW II scale mobilization. The conscious seems to be a Soviet style collectivization will be necessary to stop people from selfishly destroying the environment. I do hope you stream your confrontation with those Baltimore rioters when you tell them they are being sent back to the plantation.

Oh yeah, having an AC full of toxic ammonia and explosive butane right next to your house is an excellent idea. Those units are fine if they are small (RV fridge) or large (hundred thousand sq ft warehouse.)

Now that HFCs are considered greenhouse gasses more environmental friendly (if not people friendly) processes may be mandated. You may get your wish.

I still have my ZX 81. I wrote an accounting program to track expenses on my 300 acre farm. I had no trouble loading the tape every month. All my entries were stored in variables. I could print reports sorted by month, vendor, or category on a 4 inch thermal printer. I used it for three years until I got a TRS-80 Model 4P in 1984. I used that for 10 years until it died.