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This claim is just politically inspired B.S. from a Republican political flunky in Florida Florida “State Fire Marshal” Tells Crazy Lie About EVs https://cleantechnica.com/2022/10/07/florida-state-fire-marshal-tells-crazy-lie-about-evs/

You might want to try and acquaint yourself with facts instead of subscribing to ancient dogma. Here's how the cost of renewables has declined in from 2009 to 2012: https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-levelized-cost-of-storage-and-levelized-cost-of-hydrogen/

Well, it's really 2 bridges. At least 2 separate roads. The one that got hit is the one that has a road and train tracks. The trains are a very important means of transporting materiel destined for Kherson.

They also have sound reasons for trapping them into a surrender or killing them in combat if they don't. Supposedly, these are Russia's best troops seeing action. Why let them escape to fight another day? Especially if their morale is low and they are likely to surrender.

There's actually nothing at all from the emails that in anyway suggests the walls are closing in on Joe Biden. Thanks for the inept attempt at likening Joe Biden's situation to the very stark case of another prominent person currently being investigated.

I no more deny that than I do that some people win the lottery. Which is why I plan to invest all my funds in lottery tickets.

I suggest you accept that posters can invent personal experiences. Maybe when the day comes that aseannow.com does detailed backgrounds checks on its members, you might have at least sort of a point. Until then, not so much.

Apparently, in your mind, it's necessary to for aseannow members to credit any assertion made by a member. I have no idea if what you're claiming is true. That goes not just for you but anyone posting.. And so long as you produce evidence that is not independently confirmable that's my stance. I didn't deny the truth of what you said about Scargill's malfeasance because it is independently confirmable. (It's not significant to the issue, but that's another question.) I suggest you stick to confirmable facts to support your case.

Biden is so terrified of what the DOJ might come up with that he fired the Trump appointed United States Attorney for the District of Delaware. Just kidding. Weiss is still at his post. As for the leak and message saying so much. That's in the same way a Rorschach test says so much...about the person interpreting it. Not so much about reality.

The word you're looking for is not "denial" but "refutation". And it's good you can laugh about it.

And what does that have to do with the fact that British mining communities suffered severe and lasting damage from the closing of the mines? If Scargill was doing the job gratis would that have made any difference to these people's lives? The stuff you cite, whether it's the occasional miner who putatively did well after the closure, or the greed of union officials, are just red herrings.

Thank you for your fact-filled rebuttal.

Wasn't aware that I used quotation marks or that I called anyone a liar. And as for a straw man, I pointed out that there is plenty of evidence that the closing of the mines was a brutal blow for the miners and I couldn't find any that said otherwise. Doubtless there are a few cases of miners who thrived afterwards, but a significant number? And this is a general discussion about the effects of public policy. Representing what may be a few cases of success as significant is, to say the least, misleading.

Sure.Just more of the same from you. Emotional claims of first hand experiene with name-calling to back it up. Ex mining communities are mostly thriving? You really want to go with that?

I don't see anything particularly convincing in this article about their current alliance, if it can be called that, that has anything more to it than a coincidence of interests re fossil fuels. Neither country has much much to offer the other economically They are both nations whose economies depend to a large extent on extractive industries. I doubt Saudi Arabia is going to have much interest in Russian arms exports and Saudi industry (is there such a thing?) has even less to offer the Russians.

'The salient thing about comments like yours is that they unsupported by any confirmable evidence. On the other hand, there's this: Former mining communities 'still scarred by past' https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-50069336 An English village, 30 years after its mine closed https://www.marketplace.org/2014/04/08/english-village-30-years-after-its-mine-closed/ Former coal mining communities have less faith in politics than other 'left behind' areas https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/former-coal-mining-communities-have-less-faith-in-politics-than-other-left-behind-areas Yorkshire’s mining towns have been forgotten for too long - Peter McNestry https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/columnists/yorkshires-mining-towns-have-been-forgotten-too-long-peter-mcnestry-2451193

Why would the Saudis care about Russia, which has been propping up the Alawite govt of Syria, an ally of Iran. I think it's more about this. This is from an article published in April this year. Saudi Arabia targets a more Republican Washington Rather than push for an immediate improvement of strained relations with the United States, Saudi Arabia appears to be looking forward to a time when US President Joe Biden’s wings may be clipped. The kingdom seems to be betting on a better reception in Washington if Democrats lose control of Congress in this year’s midterm elections and/or Donald J. Trump or a Republican candidate with similar inclinations wins the White House in the 2024 presidential election. The Saudi approach signals that the kingdom has not given up on the United States, although it has lost faith in Mr. Biden because of his attitude towards Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his efforts to revive a nuclear accord with Iran. https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/04/23/saudi-arabia-targets-a-more-republican-washington/ The article goes on to report on how the Crown Prince order the Saudi Private Investment Fund to invest 2 billion dollars in a fund headed by a former high official in the previous adminstration despite a strong warning from people who administer PIF that the fund was unit for many reason.

4% of the requirement of what? Actually in 2020 wind power provided 24% of total electric power. What's more, the time of year that wind power provides the most power is in winter.

Thanks for your reasoned analysis.

Well, if you wanted to show us how little unfounded your remarks are about renewable energy, you couldn't have chose a better way than to cite Texas. The people who run that grid did an investigation. As they pointed out, the nuclear power supply failed because of a frozen pump.,the gas supplies failed because the pipelines were insufficiently insulated, and the wind turbines failed because they were insufficiently hardened. North of Texas, in Oklahoma, where the weather was even colder, wind turbines did fine because the rules there are stricter. Texas had its massive failure because the energy industry was treated very indulgently by the regulators. https://energy.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/UTAustin (2021) EventsFebruary2021TexasBlackout 20210714.pdf

Maybe they could do a remake of that old movie. This time call it The Dirty Thirty Thousand

More bad news for Russian troops: New Types Of Ammunition Make Ukraine’s HIMARS Far Deadlier https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2022/10/05/new-types-of-ammunition-make-ukraines-himars-far-deadlier/?sh=a5a8a096dbc4

I wouldn't go nearly that far. In a dictatorhip like Russia is now the leader has support as long as nothing goes seriously wrong. So most Russians went along with Putin. But since the support is tepid, when it looks like a disaster that is going to seriously affect their lives, that support will mostly evaporate. Perhaps they're at that tipping point now.

Bad news for the military industrial complex: Ukraine is no longer low on artillery ammo because Russia abandoned so much in recent retreats, report says https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ukraine-no-longer-low-artillery-113036690.html

I should add that there were also the souvenirs that could be shown off like the letters (or was it a letter?) from Kim. KInd of like a golf trophy. Apparently, Trump's caddies gave him the nickname of Pelé.