I have heard that some are suggesting charging people who use wood home heating.
politicians and do-gooders who are angry that someone might get free heat from his/her/ woodlot.
They banned woodstoves in West Marin. Not entirely - you can still use pellet stoves or the kind that are airtight and burn clean. In the wrong weather conditions woodsmoke can be vicious - lots of days some of those valleys were just about unbreathable. When it was just a few houses it ws no big deal but nowadays ...
buck said:
I saw a video this week that showed a long line of people in China, lined up for work/jobs that pay about $1.50 USD per hour
I know the average is stated to be 4,534 USD per month, maybe 20, bucks or so
I think minimum wage in Shanghai is about $1500 USD a month. But that doesn't reflect reality. I can't remember ever being in a Chinese factory that didn't supply housing and food, so that's more like $1500 a month clear. And there's a bonus equal to one month pay every year, along with a bunch of other benefits. It doesn't translate directly across.
Plus a hot dog is not $9. Can you believe that shit ? Pretty soon we'll be like prewar Germany, taking a shopping cart full of cash to the grocery store to buy two pounds of hamburger and a sack of potatoes. For comparison, lunch in a Japan restaurant in downtown Shanghai, an expensive city, with say five or six different barbecue things and a drink, maybe $6 a person. Groceries are maybe half the price ? Unless you want imports, which are high. Rent can be ridiculous, or you can find a decent place for $500 USD/month. You can't rent a doghouse in a comparable US city for $2500/month. So people can end up with more disposable, for less salary.
But The CCP can say whatever they want to say.
There is no CCP, it's the CPC, "Communist Party of China" and they aren't the only ones who say whatever the fuck they want - Weapons of Mass Destruction, anyone ? Gulf of Tonkin ? Inflation is only 2% ? the electricity crisis in California is because they haven't built enough new power plants ? "I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath" ? If I started listing non-CPC establishment lies, there'd be no space left on the website.
Communist countries can burn whatever they want to burn for energy production....
and say they are cleaning up the environment while they are planning to do just the opposite.
Yeah, sure. Like Washington doesn't lie through its teeth on a daily basis. But instead of just imagining shit, look for yourself. There's a ton of China teevee shows filmed in different cities all over the place. Use your eyes instead of imagination :
Or would you rather just say stuff that's not true ?
About the only reason to have free trade with a Communist country is under the table side money.
Nonsense. The only reason to have trade with any country is they have something you want to buy, at a price you like. Communism has nothing to do with it. If people want to have a communist country, that's
their business and has nothing to do with you. You don't own the world.
I have a honda 1000, it is also a great machine.
CBX ? Spiffy sounding but tooooo wide for me. I kinda like to lean over ...
Trueturning said:
You can be so distrustful at times.
Sure
But PG&E is still a really bad company. They get a rate hike to do one thing, supposedly, then spend the money on advertising for a law they want instead. Then they blow up an entire neighborhood because there wasn't any cash left to do the maintenance they got the rate hike for. The stupid fucks tried to build a nuclear pwer plant directly on top of an active earthquake fault. Not only that, but partway through initial construction someone figured out they were holding the plans upside down when they laid it out, so the whole thing on top of a fault was even wronger, if that's possible. They set forests on fire because they piss away the money they get from us for running an electric grid on inflated salaries, whores and trips to Vegas, and the regulators do absolutely nothing about it. If they regulatory agency
isn't on the take, they're even stupider than I can believe. How could people be this incompetent and still haul down $250,000 a year in these jobs ? I'd rather think they are taking bribes, at least that's not embarrassing.
btw, Lauren Boebert's bar-owner husband gets $460,000 a year as a "consultant" to an oil and gas company. The only gas he knows about comes from Friday's chili special, but that's not corruption, oh no. {She's on the Committee on Natural Resources, her position probably has nothing to do with her husband's side gig ...)
Buck, maybe there's stuff more worth worrying about than if some country halfway around the world is communist or not ?