Alan Zweibel

Really? The basic feature of Brexit wasn't economic independence from the UK? Stop making things up.

If anyone is truly stretching it's someone reaching back to a guy who was stopped being president in January of 2001. As for the rest of your comment. So, are you saying that if the candidate someone supports loses, they should stop wishing that they had won? Are you projecting? Do you stop wishing that losing candidates you supported had won instead?

Using your kind of reasoning, if such a comment can be dignified with that word, fossil fuels are another boondoggle: Massive explosion at largest gas refinery on the East Coast, triggering fire https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/06/21/massive-explosion-at-biggest-gas-refinery-in-east-coast-triggering-fire.html Massive fire at Chevron refinery in California contained, officials say https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2zj84vwe9o

And how does what I wrote contradict that? Because I included companies based in America? They pay directly. Consumers pay indirectly.

Mexico doesn't pay for it. Mexico doesn't pay the tariffs. It's the buyers of goods who pay the tariffs. American companies and anyone resident in America pays for those tariffs either directly or indirectly.

I asked this question of Gemini AI "is nuclear power heavily subsicized in the usa?" Here was the answer: Yes, nuclear power has been and continues to be heavily subsidized in the USA through a wide range of direct and indirect support mechanisms. These subsidies support the entire nuclear fuel cycle, from uranium mining to waste disposal and accident liability. Key forms of these subsidies include: Research and Development (R&D) Funding: Historically, the federal government has invested tens of billions of dollars in nuclear R&D, far more than for other energy sources for much of the 20th century, laying the foundation for the commercial industry. Accident Liability Limits: The Price-Anderson Act, first enacted in 1957 and periodically extended, limits the industry's liability in the event of a major nuclear accident. Without this cap (currently around $13 billion), private insurance would likely be unavailable, effectively transferring potentially massive costs to taxpayers. Tax Credits and Incentives: Recent legislation, such as the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, provides significant tax incentives, including production tax credits (PTC) and investment tax credits (ITC), for both existing and new nuclear facilities. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 also allocated $6 billion to subsidize the continued operation of plants at risk of closing due to competitive pressures. Loan Guarantees: The Department of Energy (DOE) has offered billions of dollars in loan guarantees for advanced reactor projects and plant re-openings, socializing the financial risk for private investors (with the CBO estimating a high risk of default). Waste Management Costs: While a fund paid into by nuclear operators was created for permanent waste disposal (Yucca Mountain project), the government has failed to establish a permanent repository, leaving the management of spent fuel in a state of flux with ongoing taxpayer costs for cleanup and storage. Indirect/Security Costs: A significant portion of national security, regulation (e.g., the Nuclear Regulatory Commission), and international oversight costs related to nuclear materials and facilities are borne by taxpayers rather than the industry operators.

A huge expense for California is fireproofing its grid. Not just much to protect it from fires as to stop it causing them. As the climate gets warmer, massive fires are going to be more and more of a problem.

Fossilized thinking from fossil fuel supporters. In fact, renewables are now cheaper than fossil fuels. Even with storage they are highly competitive and since the cost of storage is plummeting have already made gas peaker plants redundant.

It is cheap. For now. But even before the Ukraine War, the UK had electricity prices higher than most of the EU. Also, one of the goals of Brexit was to make the UK independent of foreign pressure. Given that wind and solar are actually cheaper than coal and competitive with gas, why wouldn't the UK benefit from this kind of independence? Basically, what it needs is a lot more storage capacity. it's been a laggard with that.

You mean these empty unbacked assertions? Next thing we know, you'll be citing fictional TV shows to back up your claims. Nah..I'm just kidding...no one could be that desperate...

"Back in the UK clean energy makes our electricity 3x more expensive than anywhere else." Stop making things up. Electricity is very expensive in the UK. But the real villain is natural gas and lack of energy storage capacity: Why Britons pay so much for electricity Almost all the time, expensive gas sets the price Electricity in Britain is expensive because it is not renewables that set the wholesale price, but gas... The most obvious solution would be to increase the amount of time that Britain can manage without recourse to gas-fuelled electricity. This would mean that a cheaper form of electricity would determine the price more of the time. But it would require lots more investment in renewables. Though government efforts to speed up approval for solar parks and onshore wind farms are encouraging, sufficient extra supply is unlikely to come on stream quickly. https://archive.ph/fPVvA#selection-1273.13-1273.464

Just an empty characterization by you. Until you back it up with actual analysis, all you've got is nothing. You've got nothing.

Across 24 countries, a median of 34% of adults have a lot or some confidence in U.S. President Donald Trump to do the right thing regarding world affairs. Around six-in-ten (62%) have little or no confidence in Trump. https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/06/11/confidence-in-trump/

There's nothing perfectly clean about any source of power. Or any industrial activity for that matter. But some are a lot cleaner than others.

What is noticeable is the apparent obsession of some people with a person who stopped being President 25 years ago. And, no, there hasn't been silence, but what news about Bill Clinton is there that can compete with just this? Epstein Birthday Letter With Trump’s Signature Revealed https://d7v9nsd5i9zn33.archive.ph/3gVMI/6891b9633895752bf2add499e81430a7666e4438.avif https://archive.ph/3gVMI

From Miller's Uncle: Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle. "I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country. I shudder at the thought of what would have become of the Glossers had the same policies Stephen so coolly espouses— the travel ban, the radical decrease in refugees, the separation of children from their parents, and even talk of limiting citizenship for legal immigrants — been in effect when Wolf-Leib made his desperate bid for freedom. The Glossers came to the U.S. just a few years before the fear and prejudice of the “America first” nativists of the day closed U.S. borders to Jewish refugees." https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351/#:~:text=What does this classically American,family's life in this country. Stephen Miller’s Family Members Are Disowning Him—Cousin Extended family members of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller are disowning him, according to his cousin. Alisa Kasmer wrote on the social media platform Threads that “both sides” of Miller’s extended family had mostly disowned him. Kasmer made the comment over the weekend, following a lengthy Facebook post she wrote in July that said Miller had become the “face of evil” and accused him of repeating “the cruelty that our people barely escaped from”—a reference to the fact that their family descends from Eastern European Jewish immigrants. https://www.newsweek.com/stephen-miller-family-members-are-disowning-him-cousin-10841146

Trump White House adviser Stephen Miller is being roasted online after bringing up his obsession with immigration in a post about watching a Christmas show with his family. Miller took to X to say he had watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with his kids, but turned it into a salvo against immigrants. 'Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world,' he opined, igniting a wave of backlash. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15415225/Trump-aide-Stephen-Miller-sparks-wild-debate-watching-Frank-Sinatra-Christmas-movie-kids.html Miller is definitely not obsessed. What could be more natural than being triggered to address this issue by a Christmas show?

Another one?

The country’s exports to the U.S. have surged since President Trump imposed new duties on countries this year... Producers seeking a foothold in the U.S. have said that Mexico still has all the inherent advantages it had before tariffs—proximity to the U.S., a low-cost manufacturing industry and a frayed but intact free-trade agreement. Even with steep tariffs on autos, steel and aluminum bound for America, Mexican manufacturing exports to the U.S. rose almost 9% from January to November, compared with the first 11 months of 2024, according to Mexican government data. https://archive.ph/NN6Tf#selection-925.0-929.235 All those new manufacturing jobs. So close and yet so far.

Shale drillers have turned the biggest oil field in the U.S. into a pressure cooker that is literally bursting at the seams... Pressure in the injection reservoirs in a prime portion of the basin runs as high as 0.7 pound per square inch per foot, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from researchers at the University of Texas at Austin’s Bureau of Economic Geology. When pressure exceeds 0.5 pound per square inch per foot, the liquid—if it finds a pathway—can flow to the surface and pose a risk to underground sources of drinking water, Texas regulators have said in industry presentations. https://archive.ph/jjtMz#selection-2515.0-2515.124 Why the worry? As everyone knows, the fluids most importance to the maintenance of life are petroleum and natural gas...oh wait a minute..it's threatending the production of those, too? This is serious.

She's also a fake since she first made her name as a critic of cancel culture when she resigned from the NY Times but had no trouble supporting it when Israel was the target.

Debatable. But even if that were true, the US is currently doing its best to catch up.

Here's another one: Ghislaine Maxwell's prison emails show she is 'happier' at minimum-security Texas facility Within days of her arrival at a Texas prison camp in early August, Ghislaine Maxwell gushed in emails to her friends and family over the cleanliness and safety of her new surroundings. “The institution is run in an orderly fashion which makes for a safer more comfortable environment for all people concerned, inmates and guards alike,” wrote Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for recruiting minors to be sexually abused by her longtime confidant, the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell’s unexpected move to the all-women’s Federal Prison Camp Bryan, which houses inmates convicted of nonviolent offenses and white-collar crimes in dormitory-style quarters, drew immediate condemnation from current and former federal Bureau of Prisons employees. They said it was very unusual for prisoners with sex offenses on their records to be incarcerated in such an unconstrained setting, indicating Maxwell was receiving preferential treatment. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ghislaine-maxwell-prison-emails-minimum-security-bryan-texas-rcna242218

Here's another one: Trump says Epstein 'stole' young women from his Mar-a-Lago spa US President Donald Trump has said he fell out with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after he "stole" young women who worked at his Mar-a-Lago beach club spa. The president made the remarks as he returned from Scotland, where he faced more questions over his relationship with the disgraced financier. "He took people, I say 'don't do it anymore', you know they work for me... beyond that, he took some others," Trump said. "Once he did that, that was the end of him." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvn7ee3539o So much for the B.S. about Trump finding his fellow creep for repugnant.

Here's another one: https://archive.ph/3gVMI