A Billion Greenies for the Everreen State
Governor Jay I sleep and his green buddies are finally putting the last touches to the destruction of what was once a paradise to live in. His own version of the new green deal will have no vehicle allowed in the state after 2030 unless it is electric. These people are so proud of their fiasco. The ramifications of this new law will break the state financially, but the saddest part of all is that at least the citizens living in the western half of Washington want it that way. I lived in the Seattle/Hoodsport/Bainbridge Island area for years, 12 of those years as a liveaboard sailor. I fought teachers and school boards with the same result as removing a teaspoon of water to empty the ocean. The few of us who bucked that liberal trend were outnumbered and overwhelmed with a sea of non-sentient goo, kind of like Cheryl Taggart. We just couldn't get anyone to listen.
Now the new law will be throwing lots and lots of money at the perceived problem. You get one guess where that money is coming from.
Now the new law will be throwing lots and lots of money at the perceived problem. You get one guess where that money is coming from.
I can’t wait to watch the leftists try to implement this in the reality of inner city Seattle and Compton California.
Everybody driving Teslas LOL! And the power is constantly getting shut off anyway because the bill isn’t paid.
I actually admire some Leftist goals. But the systems they implement to achieve those goals are atrocious and not based on reality.
I’m sure things will go MOSTLY smoothly. Just like Detroit and every other crime ridden Socialist Utopia.
Downtown was already full of transients/beggars/homeless, trash everywhere except the tourist spots. WL Center and Space Needle were patrolled by police fairly regularly.
I thought: Give me Stevens Pass or the sound and islands. I see you chose one of those. Well done. I've not lived aboard for any length, yet have captained many a vessel off-shore and on the Great Lakes, non-professional. Open ocean, open wild lands and 40 below keep the riff-raff away.
Toast to the sailors and mountain folk. Preparedness definition.
Sailing was one of the great teachers for me. I'm still a stones throw from Lake Michigan. If I need to go fishing in inclement weather I have a friend with a Columbia 26. No Coasties to worry about and no worries on sinking either. Great way to run rum too.
Purpose -full infrastructure, land and sea, away from large population. Not so many conveniences, yet many hands make light work and bond us to one another in a mortal based value structure. When we need each other we don't feed on each other.
Rural Illinois is like any other reasonable land. I use I39 to get around Chicago.
And then again, getting too rural could be like sailing off the east African coast or Malaysia if the big cities are stressed. If I take a 60 mile radius from home I hear the talk of how folks will repel inner city foragers if food and supplies run out.
I used to be tiller man and front deck ape on a boat out of Muskegon. Been knocked over the side by a Genny and a Spinnaker a time or two.
Also been screaming “Starboard” at the top of my lungs while hanging onto the forestay as the sickening crunch of fiberglass happened. Good times!
Best shout-out at the start I ever heard was from Capt Bill Lowrie; "Steel boat"
Just a random scream in the wind. Does not violate sportsmanship yet causes enough hesitation for the competitors....and scoot out on the line.
I prefer port start and lee-bow. "Take er UP! An S2 7.9 can really sail high with a 135. Not good on heavy water unless running reach or down.
Have to get rid of that damn heat sink that creates all those clouds and rain. Get that mega-fleet of dozers in here for the next century....and cheap Chinese labor to run them. What would Dagny think?
These short-sighted fearful scientists, they're all focused on the electrons. That's peanuts. That's child's play. The real energy is inside the nucleus. E=mc2 The solar science is screwing around with solar photons transferring energy through the valence electron shell of atoms.
This is like trying to cook your steak with a match, when there's a roaring fire next to you.
I'm hopeful because Bill Gates along with Uncle Sam are building a 4th generation molten salt nuclear reactor in Wyoming. It will take 7 years to go online. Finally a new reactor. Whether Bill is just hedging his investments or he is smart enough to know you don't put all your eggs in one basket, he's doing at least one good thing, and if it leads to 200 reactors running the USA, maybe we'll lessen his punishment for the virus-thing.
I'll not speculate on the cost of establishing the infrastructure at present. We have the tech to do this right now. Establishing habitation on the moon is a small fraction of the cost to build. And then who "controls" this?