It’s a busy weekend around here, with little time available for blogging, so content will be minimal unless one of our guest bloggers gets itchy fingers. Get out an enjoy it!
It’s a busy weekend around here, with little time available for blogging, so content will be minimal unless one of our guest bloggers gets itchy fingers. Get out an enjoy it!
indeed. we have had two sunny days in a row in eastern Ontario. temps aren’t that high but at least it is not raining.
Enjoy ? We have condensed global warming (snow) above 4000ft. It’s cold outside and wet. Did Al Gore fly overhead ? ? ?
Enjoy your weekend Kate.
The garden was planted here yesterday. Now if only we could get some rain and some warm temperatures here in Saskabush.
The White House Says Your Toyota Is a National Security Threat
https://reason.com/2019/05/17/the-white-house-says-your-toyota-is-a-national-security-threat/#comments
“Strip away the sheen of nationalism and the nonsensical “national security” rhetoric, and it’s easier to see these threatened tariffs for what they really are: a massive, cronyist giveaway to Ford, GM, and other American-owned car companies at the expense of foreign-owned companies that have invested in the United States and its workforce.
Indeed, the report released by the White House on Friday goes to great lengths to differentiate between “American-owned” car companies and “foreign-owned” car companies.
“Increases in imports of automobiles and automobile parts, combined with other circumstances, have over the past three decades given foreign-owned producers a competitive advantage over American-owned producers,” the report claims.”
Trump Doubles Down on Ineffective Tariffs, Further Harming U.S. Farmers and Consumers
https://reason.com/2019/05/18/trump-doubles-down-on-ineffective-tariffs-further-harming-u-s-farmers-and-consumers/#comments
“”White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Sunday acknowledged that the Chinese do not directly pay tariffs on goods coming into the U.S.,” CNBC reported this week, “contradicting President Donald Trump’s claims that China will pay for tariffs imposed by the U.S.”
Kudlow also admitted something Trump, to my knowledge, has not: the very real harm that American tariffs inflict on American consumers.
Walmart, the country’s largest grocer, says the latest round of tariffs will force the retailer to hike prices for consumers in the United States.”
“One recent scholarly assessment of the impact of Trump’s tariffs says they’ll add roughly $500 to $800 in new costs to every American household, and will cost the U.S. economy tens of billions of dollars over the next year.”
Hopefully he just caves when he gets tired of not winning. Like he did with the metals tariffs.
UnMe, living in the land of pixie powered cell phones where shit is a commodity and common sense a vice.
I’ll consider your words with all the care they are due….none.
Cry some more.
Carbon tax games.
By 2022 the federal carbon tax will be twice as high in Alberta as it is in Quebec.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/torontosun.com/opinion/cartoons/dolighan-may-18-2019/amp
The feds are also allowing Nova Scotia to escape the full effect of the carbon tax. NS brags about its sweetheart cap and trade deal. The program will add about 1 cent per litre to the price of gas compared to 11 cents per litre by 2022 under the federal approach.
I don’t know if the numbers in the article are correct, but this is really a big scam.
// By 2022 the federal carbon tax will be twice as high in Alberta as it is in Quebec. //
And the chart here shows why:
https://www.ec.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/default.asp?lang=en&n=18F3BB9C-1&wbdisable=true
But than, so will the rebates.
Dizzy, that chart has nothing to do with the carbon tax on a litre of gasoline.
But are you ok with Quebecers and Nova Scotians paying lower federally mandated carbon taxes on gasoline?
The first thing Alberta should do is combine the gasoline tax with the carbon tax and then reduce the rate to the rate of the existing gasoline tax. Then with the tax on industry deduct the tax on the second last line of the bill as an economic incentive grant.
Ok … that’s enough with my commenting on the doper numpties.
Time to go confront my leaking water heater. Our “Holy Water Heater” that has run perfectly, without a glitch for 36years … has given up the ghost. Gotta go prep the garage for installing my new Navien NPE-240A tankless WH, which is due Monday. Yep, giving up the 40gal. tank WH for a new eco-correct tankless model. I feeeeeeel sooooo “green”.
Gotta get busy, like Kate … in the REAL world … where I am thankful I wasn’t raised like a millennial squish who’ve never dirtied their hands with a wrench. But that I have the MAN-skills to replace my water heater in a day … and do it neater, cleaner, and with top end materials … unlike my existing tangled mess of 1947 era galvanized pipe. And gotta install my new recirc. loop. Lots to do.
Good luck Kenji.
Personally I don’t trust tankless hot water heaters. Due to poor ventilation, a child died from CO poison gas last year in a suburb of Calgary. I’m sure you know what you’re doing with regards to proper ventilation and having CO monitors, but just thought I’d send this link to you anyway. See below.
I had a (regular) natural gas fired tank installed recently, a brand new 40 gallon ‘baby’ that cost 800 gayloonies. I wasnt taking any chances. The old one was fine but I had nightmares after watching “The Sopranos.”
https://discoverairdrie.com/local/city-orders-inspections-of-boilers-at-apartment-complex-where-co-leaks-occurred
(* because you’re young- we don’t want you to diieeeeeeeeee!)
You’re concern for my health and well being is really sweet. This newest generation of Tankless – esp. this Navien (South Korean Mfr.) are really remarkable units. They are condensing style heaters which give out so little heat in the exhaust that the exhaust pipe is a 2” dia. PVC pipe. The unit is 97% efficient … only 3% of my outrageous PG&E rates go out the flue. Combustion air comes from outside (via 2” pipe). This is all sitting in my leaky (air) garage (no below zero days here) and won’t be asphyxiating anyone in the house. I just have to shut off the gas to remodel my nat. gas line … done it before without blowing my house up like a meth lab. Just got some prep work done today, and will probably do the install next weekend.
Kenji – do keep us up to date with your experience on your tankless heater. We considered one when our own old tank (about the age of yours or older) died a couple of years ago, but the plumbers said there was a lot of dissatisfaction with the tankless units. Can’t remember the details, but a lot more expensive and not so reliable.
Will do. I haven’t decided yet, if I am going to do some serious pipe replacement prior to installing the unit. It includes a scale filter, and is designed to run on as little as a 1/2″ gas pipe … however … I still have some old, dirty, galv. 1947 water supply pipe that gives my water a really nice metallic taste … (thank goodness for my refr. water dispenser filter). So the installation may wait till after an upcoming holiday, so I can replace some nasty piping FIRST. This particular unit was HIGHLY recommended by a neighbor who is a plumber. It is all he installs.
What’s very cool about the unit is that it includes an internal re-circulation pump that works in a couple different modes; with a full re-circ. line … and … with a bridge-valve type recirc. Because of the random branching of my existing piping, I am leaning toward trying the bridge valve option. I am very interested to see how that works to deliver FASTER hot water to my remote fixtures. Since I don’t currently have a proper recirc. line, I think I will try that option first.
As with most projects in my remodeled 1947 vintage home … there is always more PREP work to do … than the actual project. Oh well … it’s all I could afford at the time.
Another perspective on Trump’s auto trade tariffs:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/17/strategery-president-trump-instructs-ross-and-lighthizer-to-focus-on-auto-sector/
So…the lie about it being national security is just that…and it’s all to be able to export beef….but soy farmers are the ones hurting from China. What a cluster.
I have only two words for a numpty like you … “crop rotation”
True Start to U.S. vs. China Trade War
And for the crowd that these days harbors delusions of U.S. markets and economic activity largely immune to global issues, I pose the question: How do U.S. markets perform in the event of illiquidity and a “seizing up” of global markets? As I’ve posited before, the U.S. economy is extremely vulnerable to a dramatic market-induced tightening of financial conditions. What would markets look like if the marketplace turns against negative cash-flow enterprises? How would the U.S. economy function in the event of debt market illiquidity?
The Powell U-turn granted markets four months of fun and games – and only greater systemic vulnerability. Now comes the downside, with a Fed that just might prove somewhat slower to come to the markets’ rescue than everyone presumes. This week marked the True Start to the U.S. vs. China Trade War. The degree of cluelessness is shocking.
http://creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com/2019/05/weekly-commentary-true-start-to-us-vs.html?m=1
Don’t forget all that US debt China holds. Be a shame if someone were to sell it.
It takes longer than three minutes to read the weekly Doug Noland report maybe you should read it before commenting?
When you don’t read you shouldn’t really comment for you miss so much like this little tidbit.
Remember in order to advance face recognition all over the world the Deep State needs 5 G and the citizens living in cities and towns when 5G face reconition is implemented they will become real world non virtual prisons.
Tidbit below
May 16 – Bloomberg: “The Trump administration is pulling out the big guns in its push to slow China’s rise, with potentially devastating consequences for the rest of the world. The White House on Wednesday initiated a two-pronged assault on China: barring companies deemed a national security threat from selling to the U.S., and threatening to blacklist Huawei Technologies Co. from buying essential components. If it follows through, the move could cripple China’s largest technology company, depress the business of American chip giants from Qualcomm Inc. to Micron Technology Inc., and potentially disrupt the rollout of critical 5G wireless networks around the world.”
Good news from the Antipodes. The Warmistas lose an “unloseable” election and the vaguely-right-of-socialism grouping retains government.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/05/18/climate-issue-rejected-historic-landslide-win-in-australia-after-labor-loses-unlosable-election/
Labour’s real focus wasn’t on warming it was broader than that-they were running well to the left of previous Labor governments and Australia’s historical consensus. Bullet dodged. AOC wing of Dems weakened.