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Not Your Father's Energy Thinking
Energy is found in many, many forms, many of which we name and think of as substances. We often call things like oil, coal and natural gas energy. We call the companies that extract these substances...
View ArticleOil Alternatives are Now Necessary
It seems that the same technique used to get a great abundance of natural gas out of the ground is also being used to get more crude oil out of, new and old, wells greatly increasing their production....
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Lyndon Baines Johnson's Address to Congress on Voter Repression
http://www.youtube.com/...http://www.americanrhetoric.com/...Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the Congress:I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of democracy. I urge every member...
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An Immigration Story Revisited
On May 25, 2006 I wrote a piece that attempted to offer the Democratic Party advice on how to handle the immigration issue. I titled it “Democratic Advisor: Immigration.” You can read it by following...
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The Chevy Volt Punch List
Chevy Volt charging in front of Old Mazda 323 electric conversionFor those of you who are not familiar with a punch list it is a term that normally comes from the construction industry where the owner...
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Gold Revisited
Remember when real estate was the only sure bet investment? It had real… estate value. You could pass it down to your children. You could live on it, or in it. It had physical size and was tangible....
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Gold
Remember when real estate was the only sure bet investment? It had real... estate value. You could pass it down to your children. You could live on it, or in it. It had physical size and was tangible....
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Lower Oil Prices in an EV World
What do declining oil prices mean for alternative fueled vehicles, plug-in hybrids and EVs? If anything is to be learned from the past periods where gasoline prices have dropped precipitously it is...
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Adventures & Misadventures of an EV in the Country (Part 1)
I have owned or had use of plug-in electric vehicles for more than a decade starting with a production converted Pontiac Fiero with solar panels on it named Destiny2000 by its converter/manufacturer...
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Adventures & Misadventures of an EV in the Country (Part 2)
This blog is the second in a series describing my experience of owning an all electric Nissan, Leaf in the country. The distances between places are much farther apart and charging opportunities are...
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Adventures & Misadventures of an EV in the Country (Part 3)
Welcome back to my adventure of owning a battery electric car in the country. In the last blog I left you with my surprise that the Leaf didn't take as long as I thought it would have using a regular...
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Adventures & Misadventures of an EV in the Country (Part 4)
In part 4 of my series of blogs sharing my experience of owning a 2013 Nissan, Leaf battery electric vehicle in the country I want to tell you a little about the reaction that I have encountered to my...
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Adventures & Misadventures of an EV in the Country (Part 5)
Things have pretty much fallen into place with the EV in the country. There have been some misadventures while ordering a charging station, and we did decide that we were going to use a petrol powered...
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Adventures & Misadventures of an EV in the Country (Part 6)
My Leaf in our rural country side has become so ordinary that I am having a hard time finding something to write about in the experience. Not having enough texture to write about for an EV experience...
View ArticleA Letter to California+
Dear California,Don't Make New York's MistakeWhat our Democratic party continually fails to realize is that the candidate in the general election can't win without independent voters. Independent...
View ArticleCalifornia PSA for Progressives
This year voters in California who have registered with “no party preference” as your party affiliation can vote in the Democratic primary as well as those registered as Demotrats (source Los Angeles...
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200-mile Electric Vehicle Paradigm - This Changes Every Thing
Tesla Model 3sFor those of you who haven't been tuning into what has been going on in the automotive industry with respect to electric vehicles (EVs) lately, from 2008 when Tesla introduced the first...
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200-mile EV Paradigm (Part 2) - One Charger to Rule them All
In my previous blog “The 200-mile Electric Vehicle Paradigm – This Changes Every Thing”www.dailykos.com/...I discussed how the 200-mile range electric vehicle revises the charging infrastructure needs...
View ArticleFunky Vote Numbers from Farm Country
For the past 34 years I have had one foot in a busy major urban center where I was born and the other foot in a farm community where my wife came from and has close family ties. In that time I saw in...
View Article1st Episode of EV👍OK Vlog
xYouTube VideoThis is the very first video of EV👍 OK. What you will be seeing is the disjointed ramblings of me trying to get over the idea of seeing myself on a video, while trying to explain what...
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A Clarification About Catalan History
I feel sorry for the citizens of Aragon for being made out to be nonexistent by the international press in this period of tension in Spain. I have heard several reports that stated that Catalonia was...
View ArticleWI's Supreme Court Election Tomorrow Feb 20th
There is an election February 20, 2018, in Wisconsin for the first round of two rounds of voting for a position on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.The candidates are:Tim Burns - Professed liberal, but...
View ArticleDemocrats Move to the Right (Overton Window)
xYouTube VideoBernie Sanders when all was said and done raised about the same amount of money that Hillary Clinton did for the primary. The only difference is that the average donation to his campaign...
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I Want to Unify Our Party, but...
The one thing that has surprised me about what the Daily Kos has become, is how concentrated the Bernie Sanders haters are among its commenters. What is important to those who participate on the Daily...
View ArticleEl Cinco de Mayo
First we need to do the obligatory corrections to what Cinco de Mayo isn’t. Cinco de Mayo is NOT Mexico’s independence day. That is September 16th. Cinco de Mayo is NOT celebrated by all Mexicans...
View ArticleSounds of Crying Children to Haunt His Dreams
It is such a simple idea I’m afraid to say it. I was trying to find an effective way to rattle the Trump administration without reverting to violence or directly harassing them. I think I have come up...
View ArticleBreak ICE
I am not going to go into an open borders argument. I am going to go from the assumption that all the readers here believe that ripping children from their parents, when we had in place more civil...
View ArticleCatholics and the Living Wage
“Our nation, so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population, should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied working men and women a...
View ArticleProsecutorial Immunity by the Fruit of His Own Larceny
The idea that a sitting President of the United States can’t be indicted is simply illogical. Think of this. What if a candidate for President committed felonies as a means to attain the Presidency?...
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Brown Babies and the Fallacy of Resistance to Assimilation
xYouTube VideoWhat is wrong about what Tom is saying is that it is ridiculous and ignorant. I'm Hispanic. My grandfather arrived in the US in 1901 from Cuba. He learned to speak perfect English and he...
View ArticleNothing is Cut and Dry About Abortion
A large amount of things I believed that were teachings of the church that I belonged to, God seems to have gone out of his way to show me how they did not apply in particular cases. I was so annoyed...
View ArticleImmigration Checkpoints Far Away From the Border
More than a decade ago while traveling with an experimental electric three wheel vehicle tucked away in a rental box truck I and the builder were stopped at the California border at a checkpoint. This...
View ArticleA Night of Calm, Fire and Stars
It was such a lovely night. No bugs. The sky metamorphosized from just after sunset to twinkling stars, a sliver of a moon and some clouds to catch the sun's twilight rays coming from just beyond the...
View ArticleXenophobia is Not Allowed in Christianity
EX 22:20-26Thus says the LORD:"You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt. You shall not wrong any widow or orphan. If ever you wrong them and...
View ArticleOver Your Skulls and Spines Like a Terrific Tank
"Should fascism come to power, it will ride over your skulls and spines like a terrific tank." ~Leon TrotskyFascism doesn't believe in democracy. The idea of you having a choice of who your leader is,...
View ArticleWhen it all gets too serious, "Newsbroke"
xxYouTube VideoIf Trump Wins, Should We Secede? I know it comes from Al Jazeera, in this case AJ+. I know it is nearly completely funded by the Qatari government, but… I’ve been following Francesca...
View ArticleWords
I want to play with words. I want to bend them, squeeze them, shock them with electricity. Give me words like blocks to stack, make bridges, worlds in my mind. Words become like framed art on my blank...
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Pete Buttigieg, a Word on EV Infrastructure
Tesla Model 3s designed to go 200 miles plus from the startOn July 16, 2014 Elon Musk tweeted out to the world Tesla Motors would produce an affordable 200 mile range electric vehicle. Ever since that...
View ArticleDon't Know Much About... Unity (song)
Sing this to the tune of Sam Cooks “Wonderful World — Don’t Know Much About History.” Don't want unity with Rand Paul Don't want Republicans at all Won't get close to Marjorie Taylor Greene She's to...
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Wall Street is Blind to True Value of EV Charger Companies
Please forgive me for this post. It is not my typical fare. As you may know I have been a long time Daily Kos poster having started in 2006. My second post was titled “On Flexible Fuel Plug-in...
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It is a Political Mistake to Shun Tesla
I am NOT an Elon Musk fanboy, but I'm not a hater either. I am exceedingly appreciative of what he has done in the area of electric vehicles. The reason why is because of my experiences in the field of...
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Jukka Kukkonen: 12 EV market trends to watch in 2022
This is being reposted from the Fresh Energy site with permission from its author, Jukka Kukkonen who is a clean transportation consultant for Fresh Energy and founder and chief EV educator at...
View ArticleLet's Put Our Weight Behind a Moderate Republican
As I watch the proceedings in the House of Representatives as Republicans fight each other to witch extremist person will be elected as Speaker of the House, either Kevin McCarthy or Jim Jordan, I...
View ArticleChoose or MAGA Will Choose for Us
The more time that goes on with the election for the Speaker of the House the more concessions that Kevin McCarthy will give to a tiny 4.6% crazy faction of the ENTIRE House of Representatives. This...
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Joe DoGood and His Petroleum Powered Cell Phone
You know, I have a smartphone that recharges in just a few minutes. I have a charger in my office so I can charge my phone if there ever comes a time that I would need to charge during the day. I use...
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Green Desalination
Reverse osmosis desalination is a very costly way to produce fresh water from seawater, plus it comes with a variety of problems such as what to do with the filters that need replacing often, these...
View Article7 Major Auto Cos. Ally to Launch High-Power EV Charging Network for North...
According to a press release Issued by GM on July 26, 2023, at 12:00 ET, and condensed here, BMW Group, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz Group, and Stellantis NV will create a...
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New Energy Paradigm New Thinking
Energy is found in many, many forms, many of which we make the rhetorical mistake of naming after substances, or thinking of them as substances. We often call things like oil, coal, natural gas, etc....
View ArticleA Response to, "We are a Republic, Not a Democracy"
To which I say, we can, as a nation, walk and chew gum at the same time. xxYouTube Video Dan Smoot may claim that democracies degenerate into dictatorships, but most have not. The degeneration of...
View ArticleHow to Tame Disinformation
I found this video. This may be a way to control deception running rampant on social media without actually regulating speech.xxYouTube Video
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