Germany is closer to the equator? Which one? Solar works. People have to change. Max
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, audiolaw@... wrote:
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> Yeah! 2-4% is the best we can do with both wind and solar, particularly
> here in So. Cal.
>
> I saw a news story recently that Germany has actually achieved 50% of
> its energy needs from solar and other alternative energy sources.
>
> But Germany is so different from So. Cal.
>
> For one thing, they're so much closer to the equator! So they have so
> much more sunlight energy to work with.
>
> And they pay their unionized workers much more than we pay our
> unionized workers and MUCH MUCH more than we pay our non-unionized workers (so
> they get workers actually contributing ideas and thinking to products and
> processes).
>
> And because all their children are actually EDUCATED in public
> schools, instead of just being warehoused there, INCLUDING the children of all the
> immigrant workers that come to Germany for good jobs, they have much more
> intellectual talent to draw on to improve their society.
>
> And because their workers and workers' families all have health care,
> they don't have people losing work or thinking time waiting in line for
> medical attention, and they are healthier overall and better able to think
> about innovative energy development and usage.
>
> But that's alright, as long as our industrial leaders keep raking in
> profits (which they can park overseas) and our middle class keeps having
> declining incomes (in real dollars) it's just fine for us to be convinced that
> 2-4% is the best we can do. That just proves that we are so much 'freer'
> than those unlucky Germans. (Sigh - when will they ever learn to make a
> decent car in that country?)
>
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> In a message dated 6/9/2012 6:03:07 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> brad_macaboy1234@... writes:
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> Gas will be back around $2.50 in November, my prediction.
>
> I like the idea of wind and solar, but it can only produce about 2-4%
> energy of our needs from what I understand. Diesel and longer chain
> hydrocarbons are the energy source for most large scale transpo. Natural gas is taking
> a beating, now.
>
> --- On Sat, 6/9/12, BStromsoe <bstromsoe@...> wrote:
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> From: BStromsoe <bstromsoe@...>
> Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes] They LIED
> To: "diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com" <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Saturday, June 9, 2012, 2:34 PM
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> It's i9n Venezuela. When I was there in 2003, it was $0.30 per liter
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> brian from laverne, ca
> Mary (195K) Martha (280K)
> 1983 w123 300d's
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> ____________________________________
> From: Nate <vwnate1@...>
> To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, June 9, 2012 8:23 AM
> Subject: [diesel_mercedes] They LIED
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> I see where crude oil has dropped to $84 / barrel , so where the crap is
> our $2.50 Fuel ? .
>
> When it was $5.00 / barrel , Diesel briefly jumped to $5.00 / gallon in
> Cali.
>
> Just this morning I saw $3.79 / gallon branded Diesel fuel , Gasoline is
> still $4.05 .
>
> -Nate
>
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