Sorry about the repost, but this YouTuber was so vicious against conservatives I felt compelled to respond. I have been updating my comment for three days, but I am done now.
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I've enjoyed this channel for years. I hope to continue to enjoy this channel for years to come.
I'm not convinced that renewables can get us through a tough winter. The Texas 2021 power crisis led to an estimated 702 deaths. We need other methods of producing energy as a backup. Fortunately, we already have that.
If solar energy is economical then we will use more of it with time. The energy sources we use will depend upon economics and a variety of factors. If it is economical enough, I will put it on my house.
Back when I lived in Utah, the electric company gave me the option of paying more to have some of my energy come from solar power. I chose not to do that.
Single use energy is a viable option if it is either more economical or reliable. The light hitting solar panels is also single use, but we can always get more of it. Likewise, we can get more fossil fuels until we eventually run out. Reportedly, we will be running out of most fossil fuels by the year 2100, but coal is projected to last well into the next century.
My Prius gets good gas mileage. An all-electric car would make it more difficult to take a cross country trip. Since liquid fuels are so energy dense, they are an ideal energy source for transportation. I suspect that we will use liquid fuels for a very long time.
The lower cost of solar panels might be artificial because China has subsidized this industry, putting our domestic production out of business. China uses energy mostly from coal to build solar panels.
Sabine Hossenfelder has a video called, "The Big Problem With Solar Power" which discusses the economics.
I take issue with the demonizing of the political right, which like the political left, wants what they perceive as the best policies for the country.
Internet Service Providers are not in the business of losing money. If people choose to live in remote areas then they should bear the extra costs of obtaining services.
Biden's Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program cost $42.5 billion, and the program has faced significant problems. In truth, this steals from the many to benefit a few, with questionable results. These programs tend to be pie-in-the-sky impractical. This is the problem with saying we are more productive if we do things together. It justifies picking everyone's pockets to help a small segment of society.
The political left, with some help from the right, has spent us to oblivion. We are going broke and this will create serious problems going forward. Big government policies no longer work for us.
I've been concerned for decades about population expansion, which strains resources and creates problems in crowded cities. Since I moved to Utah in 1993, the population has nearly doubled, and as a result, the cost of housing has gone up several fold, creating a housing crisis hitting poor people the hardest. The home I paid $120K for in 1999 is now worth $700K.
I think that an almost unlimited number of people would come to the United States if allowed to do so. If we allowed this to happen, I think that this would create many problems. We no longer live in the 19nth century where we had so much land we were giving it away to settlers. Therefore, we need controls on immigration through legal immigration. Those controls are meaningless if we don't enforce those laws.
Biden's policy was effectively an open border. Bringing in 20 million illegal immigrants was a mistake. Two thirds of Americans oppose this.
From what I can tell, "Immigration Reform" is a movement to pardon people who have broken our laws.
Your position supports lawlessness and anarchy. We need federal law enforcement of immigration laws. Calling federal officers thugs and racists is appalling. The left routinely calls people they disagree with racist, which is effective because our modern society hates racism. The implication is that people like me who want law enforcement are also racists. Again, I'm appalled. The United States is one of the least racist countries in the world with one of the most generous immigration policies. We have a legal immigration system because the United States opens its arms to legal immigrants.
Renée Good tried to flee when officers decided to arrest her. She knew full well that there was an officer in front of her car, but it is not entirely clear if she was trying to avoid hitting him. Maybe she didn't care, or maybe she did. She had a responsibility to operate her vehicle safely, but instead she gunned it. Officer Jonathan Ross was injured, had to be taken to the hospital, and was later treated for internal bleeding. That first shot through the windshield was justified. I find the second and third shots questionable because they were through the driver's side window. However, all three shots were fired in just a couple of seconds, giving the officer almost no time to react.
It is illegal to carry a gun while committing a felony according to state and federal laws. Alex Pretti was interfering with law enforcement, making physical contact, which is sufficient to get arrested, which he resisted. If he was planning to resist law enforcement, which he had done more violently a couple of days earlier, he should not have been there with a gun, but he also should not have been shot, which was due to a misunderstanding.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
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