The faulty intelligence of… Doctored images?
You’re telling me that someone doctored images of beheaded babies to show Biden?
I think the bigger story is that the Senate is proposing an amendment that includes women in the draft
THAT’S MY PREMIER 😍😍😍
The ones they dropped into the ocean causing people to drown trying to retrieve them or
This reduces demand. Sounds fine to me.
the ones they dropped on top of crowds of people, crushing them?
This increases supply. I think you’re not looking at this from a capitalist perspective: increased supply, decreased demand? The US is just improving access to food!
I love routinely sailing into a military base that’s not in my country, that the country it’s in doesn’t want, and that is in a country I happen to have embargoed despite the condemnation of every other country on the planet. It’s just routine, after all.
Let’s look at what the EU found after investigating two of China’s largest EV companies: BYD and Geely
Their investigators turned up subsidies everywhere they looked. Lithium processers and battery makers were told by the state to sell to EV companies below market rates, they said,
Important to note here that BYD is the leading battery maker in the world. They’re also a leading lithium processor, in fact setting up lithium processing plants as far away as Chile. BYD is notorious for vertically integrating across their entire supply chain, so at least for BYD this claim makes zero sense. Berkshire Hathaway owns 9.8% of BYD.
while the car companies were exempt from battery consumption taxes.
This refers to the 4% tax on batteries instituted in 2015. Except… “But cleaner batteries including mercury-free, nickel-hydrogen, lithium and solar cell varieties will be exempted and taxation on lead storage batteries will be postponed till Jan 1, 2016.” Is the EU perhaps referring to the lead-acid batteries that feature in BYD and Geely’s hybrid products? As far as I know those should be taxed, but maybe I’m wrong and that was in fact a tax subsidy. Either way, lithium batteries are exempt from this tax.
The firms issued green bonds that government-run financial institutions were ordered to buy,
Buying corporate bonds really is subsidization and not something you’d expect to see in free market economies.
https://www.nbim.no/en/the-fund/investments/#/2023/investments/fixed-income
Wait hold on…
and were granted concessional land, income tax breaks and cheap refinancing options mandated by the People’s Bank of China, the central bank.
Dirty, dirty subsidies!
https://goodjobsfirst.org/nevada-woos-tesla-plant-tax-deal-economic-benefits-prompt-debate/
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/tesla-gets-330m-tax-deal-for-nevada-expansion-truck-plant/
Admittedly, now I’m a little confused.
Why, then, are Chinese EVs in China sold at a 30%+ discount relative to Chinese EVs in Europe?
Meanwhile, Israel who’s said they will not accept any peace at this time:
Motherfucker they’re going to base the planes in Romania. What repair and maintenance crews do they need that don’t already exist?
CAS pumps out so much good work it’s crazy.
CAS today isn’t the CAS for years ago.
I mean, isn’t that the goal? If you’re accruing wealth but spending it to better the country (building infrastructure, blah blah), why does it matter?
It helps that China’s also clamping down on corruption from the politician side.
Dude there’s videos online but they’re obscenely graphic.
sigh
You want to talk about methane emissions? Let’s talk about underreported methane emissions.
As you we’ll know, natural gas has been the most significant contributor to the US’ emissions reductions in recent years. Natural gas use has skyrocketed, supplanting coal because of its “50% reduction in CO2 emissions.” This is true at the consumption point, but what’s often forgotten is that methane, CH4, is small and leaky, and methane is a much worse GHG than CO2 (~80x worse over 20 years).
What does that mean? A 1.25% leakage rate for methane over the entire extraction/distribution process would double methane’s GHG effect. What’s a realistic leakage rate, then? Well…
Stanford estimates 9% leakage over the Permian Basin
The EDF estimates methane leakage to be 3.75x to 8x worse than the EPA estimate of 1.2%
Remember that natural gas makes up the most significant part of the US electricity supply (as well as a significant portion of primary energy for heating and industrial applications). Draw conclusions appropriately.
The US is significantly underreporting it’s own methane emissions.
Edit: in case it wasn’t clear, natural gas is methane
It’s motherfucking happening
Ahead of schedule
With accelerating velocity
It’s fucking happening AHHHH
You mean…
Tesla? No, sorry, must have been Ford/GM.
Oh, my bad, Intel.
TSMC?
No? Oh. So it’s only other governments subsidizing domestic businesses that’s bad.
And this is also true of conventional jet intercepts. Point being, the problem of stealth is basically no longer a problem.
Israel: what if we just do both?
Your claim is that if I can track something to within 20m, I can’t send a fighter (or multiple) up to engage with it?
That’s why German automakers are pissed off with the EU Commission lol
They want to compete, but von der Leyen doesn’t let them.