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While i agree with the author, I wouldnt be so quick to assume that all these anti-gas people have nafarious motives of keeping poor people poor. Id say some really believe they are doing good but are perhaps unaware of the reality that normal people live in since they have been seperated from that reality for decades or perhaps since birth

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Of course it’s beneath the Brahmins of electrification to respond to the likes of Robert; it means challenging their beliefs. What I don’t get is what do Bloomberg and Bezos get from closing nuclear plants and prohibiting gas in homes?

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This is a spectacular article. I think these billionaires need some psychological help so that they don’t feel so guilty regarding their wealth that they can be easily duped into “helping us plebeians” with this fraudulent climate hysteria.

There was a time when the ultra wealthy funded great works of art, culture and evangelism through the church. Take a tour of the Vatican for some evidence. Unfortunately the billionaires of our time are children of a lesser god, i.e. sad to say, no God at all with most, if not all, of this crew.

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May 15·edited May 15

Ironically, in the 90s I worked for a large, well-known northeastern utility with both gas and electric customers. We had a separate rate for homes with electric heat, and were ordered by state regulatory authorities to eliminate that rate, so that such customers would pay the regular (and much higher) residential electric rate. This was done in order to get them off inefficient electric heat and on to far more efficient gas heat. Amazing that we are now trying to reverse this process.

The ultimate goal of these people, as stated by the World Economic Forum, is the reduction of human population to a more "manageable" 500 million. They call this Climate Resistance. I call it genocide, and it needs to be responded to accordingly.

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I can guess two motives for the ban. 1. Make ordinary people more vulnerable and controllable. Gas stoves still work when the electricity is out, so those peasants are less dependent on the single grid. 2. Leave more gas available for LNG exports, to aid in our insane perpetual war against Russia.

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Are there motives beyond virtue signaling for billionaires to demonize hydrocarbons and nuclear?

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Biological recycling is the ONLY solution to insert a temporary fix into the Billionaires Error... Anything else (including writing articles and comments) won't do anything.

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It is not surprising that responses are underwhelming. You are a threat to their virtue signaling.

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Let the Hunger Games begin.

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That explains the ridiculous article I've came across in Washington post. Telling me creative ways to cook everything in microwave or other plastic devices, and encouraging me to give up gas stove - the ultimate evil.

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Dave

Do not worry Michael Chownyk, gas will not destroy your business of Solar panels. Also can you expand on your breif explanation please!

Gas is a good option for cooking and heating and cheaper. It has been used for many many years with no Asthma pandemic, pretty convincing facts really.

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reply to Chris G. I can’t believe how negative you are with your limited insight and renewable energy power generation and the material required to produce it. In a solar panel there is no gold or Palladium or tellurium. Solar panels are framed in aluminum that’s anodized and there’s two pieces of low iron glass sandwiching hyper pure silicon Solar Cells that are only made of silicon it is slightly doped with a super small fraction of boron and phosphorus. Completely harmless. There’s silver tin and bismuth Solder that is screen printed on the surface of the cells. It’s all non-toxic. At the end of the use of life life there is no chemical leaching because all of the solar modules will be recycled. I know somebody who’s recycling solar panels now and they do it with amazing efficiency. 99% recycled 1% landfill so don’t give me your shit that the solar panels will hold down shingles. Never in my life have I ever mounted a solar panel over Ashfault shingles. The shingles will burn out so it’s a stupid idea. My solar panels are ground mount it so I can clean the snow off them. And if you think wood is dirty as a fuel source? Not compared to coal. I drove around in my carbon neutral electric car with a cordless circular saw and I selectively procure hardwood skids from behind factories that were put out for scrap. Bone dry hardwood. I expend 1 kWh of energy to procure 500 kWh of wood. It is a super smart return on energy investment. Fools like you would freeze in in your house as if the power went out for an extended period. Not me. On another issue do you think there’s cadmium in an electric car? My electric car battery contains lithium manganese oxide. There’s no cobalt or nickel in the battery at all. So you are wrong again. When it comes to wind turbines I completely support the technology. By 2035 Britain will have about 40 GW of wind generation capacity. Europe will have way more. Right now 36% of the electricity in Europe is provided by renewable energy. So when they make solar panels and wind technology in Europe 36% of that energy comes from renewables already. So shut up about it you fool. There will be a tipping point in the future where over half of the input Energy of anything built will be built from renewable energy instead of coal oil gas or nuclear.

I made it a point in my life to be the example. I am trying to be the best example of what a modern humans can be. Have the latest ecological footprint and do not burn fossil fuels at all. It would be so stupid to burn through all of the liquid hydrocarbons on the earth and then realize the material could’ve been used for plastics and pharmaceuticals and clothing and make a myriad of other materials like ashfault to make roadways but instead we burned it all off like a bunch of retards. I am going to live the rest of my life off grid. I am going to buy a cyber truck with the 800 km range

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Impressive sourcing of confirmable data in the face of motivated and incredibly sloppy arguments. Back in 2018, the RMI worked with the IEA and Indian government on “cooling solutions,” and were honest in confessing that no conceivable amount of renewable energy installation in India could cope with room air conditioning demand spikes. But now the RMI are simply celebrating cooling breakthroughs without telling us whether they’re scaling.

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Hi Robert, can you please clarify or elaborate on the following? I want to dig in more on these non-profits but don't want to give Guidestar's info is paywalled and they don't disclose what they want to charge for their service in a transparent way.

"How rich is Climate Imperative? According to the latest report from Guidestar, the group took in $221 million in its first full year of operation. (Guidestar calls the income “gross receipts.”) "

CI received their Determination Letter from the IRS on 03/02/2021 with the exception backdated to 03/04/2020. (This can be found by typing their EIN into the IRS's search tool https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/details/) I think this gives sufficient evidence that they first year of operation was 2020.

ProPublica shows CI's total revenue for FY 2020 as $82.7 million. Per my understanding "revenue" is the amount of money that goes into the organization before expenses, debts, salaries, etc are subtracted.

So I'm wondering, where does the $221 million come from? Are these two different numbers? Or does Guidestar have their figures for FY 2021?

Thank you!

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Good article. Saw it linked on Global Research today. Will be linking it as well @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/

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🤯 WOW! Mind is blown, I have always said "follow the money ". The strangest part is these are the same people the Republicans are protecting. Oh what a tangled web.

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