They LOVE to slam CA and anybody over there. Now, Silicon valley remains far more innovative than NYC, so, they continue to gripe about it.

The reason is that energy will move over to Nat Gas, or even oil. Worse, if we do this just in the us, it will do even more damage to American manufacturing than what the neo-cons did with their tax schemes.

Instead, put a tax on ALL LOCALLY CONSUMED GOODS (locally produced as well as imported) and their subparts. It would be based on the CO2/$GDP. In addition, base it on REAL values of CO2 and not guesses. Measure CO2 in and out of nations/states.
With this approach, it rewards those that have low CO2/$GDP emissions, while having those with high CO2/$GDP pay a lot more, discouraging good from there (basically, you make them pay for their CO2). Interestingly, most 3rd world nations would pay little to no taxes. That would not be true for the oil producers since many of those purposely overlook an environmental regs, esp. those ran by dictators.

nope. Very little coal into making Aluminum in the US.

The fact is, that if we pull all of the coal out of production, then we must get our energy elsewhere. Where will it come from? Probably burning more nat gas, and then by importing more oil to replace the nat gas that WAS slowly replacing the coal.

What is REALLY needed is NOT to kill coal outright, but to convert it to methane via GPE. At that point, we move our coal power to a MIXTURE of nat gas, new atomic, Renewables, and storage (better to handle variable demand loads).


And if we REALLY wanted to kill off CO2, then the best thing that America can do is put a tax on ALL GOODS CONSUMED (local and imported) that is based on where they and parts come from. If high CO2 / $GDP, then high tax. If low CO2/$GDP, then low tax. Simple as that. It will force all nations to participate since USA is the world's largest importers.

exactly right. And their broadband is simply part of their maintenance agreement.

And yet, Tesla has all that for the last couple of years, and does not have that issue.

No doubt this is in response to Tesla., who has had cell communications in all of their cars for the last couple of years.

Actually, we have small subsidies for 'electric' and done all wrong.
The current BS should be dropped and instead changed to be:
1) if a car is a parallel hybrid, or is a general purpose electric that gets less than 100 MPC (as rated by EPA), then they should only get 2.5-5K. The reason is that these will want to be charged during the daytime. That will increase our demand on power plants and grid.
2) if a car is serial hybrid or nat gas, or gets 100-150 MPC, then they should get 7.5-10K.
3) if a car gets over 150 MPC, then they should get 10-15K. THe reason is that they will charge at nighttimes, 98% of the time. As such, they will only use extra power and grid during the offtime, which will allow electric companies to move to smooth demand better (i.e., they can buy nukes, or batteries, etc).

As to the tax, the roads are not being paid for properly. They are falling apart rapidly all over the nation. By raising the price of oil base fuel SLOWLY, it gives ppl time to move off oil based and go to electric or nat gas. That will drop demand for the oil based, which will drop the price of gas/diesel. Simple economics. BTW, adding large amounts of taxes are total shocks to the economy. By adding it slowly like this, it allows ppl to make changes.

And as to the grid and power supply, numerous studies have shown that they are JUST fine, based on a couple of assumptions. The biggest assumption is that more than 80% of the vehicles charge at nighttime. As long as they do that, we are just fine. That is also why hybrids and low MPC vehicles are disasters to us. They will actually raise the costs to us.

Finally, BN is moving their diesel to LNG. If our commercial vehicles move to Nat Gas as well, it will allow us to walk away from imported oil. That will see fuel prices drop fast.

Well, gee. It should be obvious that the man KNOWS a great deal more than you do. Have you noticed the fact that nearly all those that want to go to the moon, or push the SLS, are those that are NOT rocket scientists, or even work in the field? In spite of the logic that has been argued over and over, you and others ignore it.

BUT, the good news for you is that Bigelow wants to go and more importantly, many nations want to go there, preferably before China. As such, NASA, along with other nations and private space, are going to go to the moon around 2020. And no doubt, SpaceX will be a part of it because they will be the cheapest choice. BUT, they are not going to front the money for it. Their money is focused on Mars.

BTW, this is no different than BA. BA is focused on the moon, BUT, BA units WILL be going to mars. But BA is not going to fund it.

Why did so many ppl move to America? Why did ppl move to Australia? Many of them DIED enroute and living in these places as well.
BUT, they enjoyed their lives and a number of them left quite the legacy.

That is why we desperately need to go back to the old immigration policy. It used to be that if you had skills that we wanted, you were welcome. Now, it is about nation (mexico gets 50% of all visas) and if you have family here. That is the WRONG way to do things.

Oh, I bring that up everytime somebody says that term and applies it to a black man only. There are also plenty of brown skin there from India, pakistan, etc who have since moved to America. i.e. they are also African-American.

Personally, I am tired of it all. We are just Americans here.

Robert, That is all going to change in 2015. We have solar city on our house. I was gripping about the use of Chinese panels, and several of the engineers indicated that Solar City has been waiting for Solar to get cheap enough so that they can bring it in-house along with a large amount of automation.
BTW, when we buy our tesla (waiting to see the model X, and will then decide which), it will be integrated with the solar system so that if we lose electricity, then during the daytime, we will have 2-3 circuits on it, as well as charging the Tesla, and then at nighttime, it will borrow from the car. Pretty cool.
You will also like that SOlar City is going to expand beyond solar. They are going into energy, including geo-thermal.
In fact, I talked to one of their engineers about how to modify fracking to make it useful for geo-thermal. Basically, the standard approach is vertical down to the same levels within the reservoir, turn horizontal, frack and then pump it in. BUT, if you do not do a LARGE frack, and add one more line that goes down deeper (below the reservoir), frack that one hard, and then use that to force the oil/gas into the upper piping, you can use this once the well is dry, for geo-thermal. And the nice approach is that the collectors are not fracked hard, so it will not force other elements into the aquifers.

Regardless, one thing about Musk, that man is damn exciting.

OSC being a real player? Not even close. They own NO ip related to launching. And even in sats, they are only SO-SO.
To even think that they are a real player is a total joke.

Nope. He was born South African but he gave that up, since he really wanted to be an American.
He had Canadian, but I am not sure whether he gave that up.