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Economics explains a lot. People have to eat, after all. Economics structures our time and behavior. We go about maximizing things, like our profits or free time. Economics was important to the founders of the US. Pursuit of...
by SolarKitty
on Mon Sep 21, 2020 at 09:07 AM PDT
with 2 Recommends
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I think religion is an inferior good. That's not a judgement of quality or morality, it just means that consumption of religion increases as income decreases. There are religious billionaires, like the owner of In-n-Out Burger. But it's like Marx said,...
by SolarKitty
on Tue May 05, 2020 at 11:28 AM PDT
with 1 Recommend
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The only positive—if it can be called that—in this entire tragic pandemic is that it has laid bare the inadequacies of our infrastructure, our economic structure, and the conservative political philosophy of running the government like a Ponzi scheme....
by Walter Einenkel
on Mon Apr 20, 2020 at 12:25 PM PDT
with 147 Recommends
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The FCC, under Trump’s pick Ajit Pai, has done away with net neutrality protections in part by arguing that the internet is not a utility in the same way as telephones. While this argument has been disingenuous from the beginning, its limitations, as...
by Walter Einenkel
on Tue Mar 17, 2020 at 10:05 AM PDT
with 138 Recommends
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A new report from the Energy and Policy Institute looks into the 10 top investor-owned electric utilities, and found that they all “use their charitable giving to manipulate politics, policies and regulations in ways designed to increase shareholder...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
on Thu Dec 12, 2019 at 06:29 AM PST
with 7 Recommends
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Just a couple of weeks before the recent tragic wildfires that ravaged Northern California, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), the main utility company in the state, pre-emptively shut down power to over 60,000 customers. The move was temporary and...
by Walter Einenkel
on Fri Nov 23, 2018 at 10:01 AM PST
with 71 Recommends
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A group of 22 Democratic state Attorneys General from West Coast to East have filed a lawsuit Tuesday trying to prevent the FCC’s repeal of Title II Net Neutrality.
The suit, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, argues...
by GCHoward
on Wed Jan 17, 2018 at 08:03 AM PST
with 10 Recommends
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Whitefish Energy, the two-person, office-free company that landed a $300 million contract to repair the 2,400 miles of Puerto Rico’s electric lines, got more than just a big check, they got a very nice clause in their contract. A leaked copy of the...
by Mark Sumner
on Fri Oct 27, 2017 at 05:57 AM PDT
with 269 Recommends
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Good day, Kossacks. Where here used to dwell a list, Dr. Conway has decided to do a deeper dive each week into a topic of particular concern to him. We hope you’ll share his ire about this one. With that, we present the inaugural edition of Dr....
by GreenpowerCA
on Thu Oct 26, 2017 at 11:08 AM PDT
with 2 Recommends
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The outlandishness of the deal that saw two-person, office-free, experience-free, connections-many Whitefish Energy given the task of rebuilding Puerto Rico’s energy grid—along with a $300 million check—came under additional scrutiny on Wednesday. It...
by Mark Sumner
on Thu Oct 26, 2017 at 05:39 AM PDT
with 173 Recommends
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Agelbert NOTE: This is just a snippet of an excellent heads up for lovers of a healthy climate and our democratic right to defend it from the polluters. Please read the article when you get a chance. The Republicans (and some bought and paid for...
by Agelbert
on Sun Jun 25, 2017 at 01:23 PM PDT
with 4 Recommends
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Here are some of the titles that have been floating around today about the initial report.
“Vermont utility finds alleged Russian malware on computer”
“Washington Post flubs report on Russia hacking utility company”
“Fake News' Cries Follow...
by Marina Asbury
on Sat Dec 31, 2016 at 06:33 PM PST
with 28 Recommends
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DC residents: click here to call Mayor Muriel Bowser and tell her to prioritize her constituents over the expansion of Exelon's monopoly . Exelon all-but-promises it will raise your electricity ...
by cgibosn
on Mon May 11, 2015 at 01:05 PM PDT
with 9 Recommends
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Extra Extra! Read all about climate denial scientist Willie Soon's dirty money from petrochemical billionaire Charles Koch, coal utility Southern Company, oil ...
by cgibosn
on Sun Feb 22, 2015 at 12:04 PM PST
with 22 Recommends
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Have you noticed that, if you still have a traditional land line phone service and possibly DSL, the phone company and the cable company inundate you with offers to switch to their digital services? ...
by oicnow
on Wed Feb 04, 2015 at 10:20 AM PST
with 2 Recommends
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The other day I happened to overhear a conversation between two people, neither of them fundamentalists or right-wingers of any stripe. The theme of their dialogue was that adopting a gay lifestyle ...
by RobLewis
on Wed Jan 07, 2015 at 04:21 PM PST
with 3 Recommends
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In 1983, a couple of years after the second of the 1970s oil shocks and at a time when petroleum prices were relatively low, in a village near Graz, Austria, in the province of Styria, a farmer and ...
by gmoke
on Mon Dec 08, 2014 at 11:56 AM PST
with 34 Recommends
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"In a strategy approved by the utility's advisory board yesterday, E.ON [Germany's biggest utility] is preparing to split into two separate companies sometime next year. The new (as-yet-unnamed) ...
by gmoke
on Mon Dec 01, 2014 at 07:12 PM PST
with 16 Recommends
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Yesterday, a few dozen clean energy advocates visited the Arlington, Virginia office of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to protest its dirtywork for polluting companies like ...
by cgibosn
on Fri Sep 05, 2014 at 09:30 AM PDT
with 9 Recommends
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In the sleepy college community of Claremont a contentious dispute over who controls the city's water utility is brewing, and its implications reach far beyond the Pomona Valley. Battles over water ...
by Doctor Jazz
on Sat Jul 19, 2014 at 11:35 PM PDT
with 31 Recommends
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