Isn't Macron a Schwab trainee along with Trudeau and Adern and various others known and unknown.
When I read that quote I see it in terms of 'The Great Reset' which also can explain the apparently irrational political behaviour and legislation in the West.
I enjoy your personal narratives. I find most personal conversations quickly drying up. Thanks for your obsessive writing to entertain us while we wait nearly helplessly for the axes to fall.
Bill: the finest phrase I've read in quite a while "Here in Poitou, after the 15th of August, the heat disperses… replaced by a gracious, late-summer warmth. Like wine and women, the summer reaches its peak just as the first hints of decay appear. The leaves begin to turn… and the nights turn cool." You've achieved your Wordsmith merit badge. Thank you. Jon P. - subscriber
I’m so sick of weddings and funerals-boring small talk. If I HAVE to make an appearance, I make a speed round to let people know “I’m here!” and with all do respect slink out. The food and drink isn’t worth it now, but, in the future, food, power and clean water shortages will make me change my mind.
Lovely Bill, felt quite poetic in a way, but not sure my wife wants to be reminded that the first signs of decay are appearing, and I don't find the first glimpse I get of myself these mornings particularly flattering either, but there you go....
This may be off topic but bear with me. Calif Gov Newsum will outlaw petroleum vehicles sometime in 2035. I wonder if this will also include Emergency Service Vehicles like fire trucks, snow plows, police, ambulence, even military? Long haul semi trucks, etc. Going all electric really makes it tough to defend against sun bursts or EMP’s. It also makes you a victim of who controls the electric grid just like digital money and the Federal Reserve. Steam cars should make a come back.
The Governors last name is spelled Newsom. Outlawing petroleum vehicles in 2035 is still 13 years away. A lot can happen during that time. It may or may not happen by then. My uncle drives a long haul semi truck and he was told they will probably have electric trucks within the next 10 years, if not sooner. Any replacements needed will be electric.
I really don't think Steam cars are a workable solution. I assumed you were kidding.
"I really don't think Steam cars are a workable solution" --With some tweaking, steam powered cars might be practical, certainly more sensible than EV cars. They need fossil fuel to produce steam but nowhere near as much as today's ICE engines and need batteries too but none as environmentally destructive as an EV battery
Here's an excerpt I found about the Carter Steamer, a circa 1977 station wagon adapt to run on steam: "The Carter Steamer is unique because it was the first car to meet the proposed 1977 Emission requirements, which Detroit lobbyists had said was impossible.... As a result, the Carter Steamer was featured on the front cover of Popular Science.... The engine operates at up to 4000 rpm (at 80 mph) at temperatures up to 1100° F and variable pressures up to 2500 psi. Engine idle pressure is about 250 psi."
Paris Bourse 1882 all over again in 2022. Call it Poetic justice, Nord Stream shutdown, no gas from Russia, inflation , higher interest rates make for a wave of calamities after a decentralized franc galvanizes the union and the lingering effects of Brexit surmount the economic paddle.
Nothing left in your portfolio but valueless stocks with nowhere to go, until the end of the decade. Your million dollar life savings nest egg will be worth $100,000 grand next month, and remain that way until at least 2030. Watch! 😂
All you say is true, to my reckoning. My son has lived in Taiwan and Hong Kong for a number of years managing and facilitating the flow of goods to the West Coast. My best hope is that the fools in Washington refrain from their reactionary saber rattling long enough for us to maintain a semblance of economic balance. Of course, the dollar debt issue is the Black Swan that Bonner and company have been warning us of for years.
As of several years ago, the medicine cabinets in US Navy ship infirmaries -- including those traversing the Taiwan Straights -- were replete with medicines and medicinal supplies most of which were made in China
Isn't Macron a Schwab trainee along with Trudeau and Adern and various others known and unknown.
When I read that quote I see it in terms of 'The Great Reset' which also can explain the apparently irrational political behaviour and legislation in the West.
Thank God for the independence of the Russians.
I agree completely. Others here hate Russia.
I enjoy your personal narratives. I find most personal conversations quickly drying up. Thanks for your obsessive writing to entertain us while we wait nearly helplessly for the axes to fall.
Bill: the finest phrase I've read in quite a while "Here in Poitou, after the 15th of August, the heat disperses… replaced by a gracious, late-summer warmth. Like wine and women, the summer reaches its peak just as the first hints of decay appear. The leaves begin to turn… and the nights turn cool." You've achieved your Wordsmith merit badge. Thank you. Jon P. - subscriber
I’m so sick of weddings and funerals-boring small talk. If I HAVE to make an appearance, I make a speed round to let people know “I’m here!” and with all do respect slink out. The food and drink isn’t worth it now, but, in the future, food, power and clean water shortages will make me change my mind.
K.Rutz
Lovely Bill, felt quite poetic in a way, but not sure my wife wants to be reminded that the first signs of decay are appearing, and I don't find the first glimpse I get of myself these mornings particularly flattering either, but there you go....
This may be off topic but bear with me. Calif Gov Newsum will outlaw petroleum vehicles sometime in 2035. I wonder if this will also include Emergency Service Vehicles like fire trucks, snow plows, police, ambulence, even military? Long haul semi trucks, etc. Going all electric really makes it tough to defend against sun bursts or EMP’s. It also makes you a victim of who controls the electric grid just like digital money and the Federal Reserve. Steam cars should make a come back.
Its all about control and money.
The Governors last name is spelled Newsom. Outlawing petroleum vehicles in 2035 is still 13 years away. A lot can happen during that time. It may or may not happen by then. My uncle drives a long haul semi truck and he was told they will probably have electric trucks within the next 10 years, if not sooner. Any replacements needed will be electric.
I really don't think Steam cars are a workable solution. I assumed you were kidding.
Of course he is joking about steam cars, what do you think a steam car ran on.
Steam...maybe?. Just a wild guess!
first steam car was ran on coal, like steam trains, to make steam they were run on coal. they boiled the water to make steam
You're more than welcome to your opinion. I just happen to disagree with you.
Anyone with knowledge of physics will tell you the EV cars will not work. Maybe in 50 or 100 years. Pushing it before then is just a scam.
Electric is no more workable than steam.
Tell all of the other countries that! They are buying electric cars and have been for awhile.
"I really don't think Steam cars are a workable solution" --With some tweaking, steam powered cars might be practical, certainly more sensible than EV cars. They need fossil fuel to produce steam but nowhere near as much as today's ICE engines and need batteries too but none as environmentally destructive as an EV battery
Here's an excerpt I found about the Carter Steamer, a circa 1977 station wagon adapt to run on steam: "The Carter Steamer is unique because it was the first car to meet the proposed 1977 Emission requirements, which Detroit lobbyists had said was impossible.... As a result, the Carter Steamer was featured on the front cover of Popular Science.... The engine operates at up to 4000 rpm (at 80 mph) at temperatures up to 1100° F and variable pressures up to 2500 psi. Engine idle pressure is about 250 psi."
Interesting. EV batteries have improved. Tesla is way ahead of other car makers in this department. They recycle their batteries.
It's not the recycling so much as the EV battery creation. After you research the topic, I'm sure you will draw the same conclusion.
That Bonner is a poet but didn’t know it because his feet..........
Paris Bourse 1882 all over again in 2022. Call it Poetic justice, Nord Stream shutdown, no gas from Russia, inflation , higher interest rates make for a wave of calamities after a decentralized franc galvanizes the union and the lingering effects of Brexit surmount the economic paddle.
Nothing left in your portfolio but valueless stocks with nowhere to go, until the end of the decade. Your million dollar life savings nest egg will be worth $100,000 grand next month, and remain that way until at least 2030. Watch! 😂
Lights, AC & Heating are basic. They are not going away. Just different in their energy source.
At least that is the intention!
Macron seems to be preparing the French Working Class for this transition.
Why them and not the rich or poor?
Answer: because they as a group are larger and consume the most.
Politicians assume it will be hard.
Again, why?
What are they saying amongst themselves that we are not understanding?
I have no idea.
Too much secrecy!
All you say is true, to my reckoning. My son has lived in Taiwan and Hong Kong for a number of years managing and facilitating the flow of goods to the West Coast. My best hope is that the fools in Washington refrain from their reactionary saber rattling long enough for us to maintain a semblance of economic balance. Of course, the dollar debt issue is the Black Swan that Bonner and company have been warning us of for years.
As of several years ago, the medicine cabinets in US Navy ship infirmaries -- including those traversing the Taiwan Straights -- were replete with medicines and medicinal supplies most of which were made in China