13 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: Better Living Through Rent Seeking*”
One of the highlights of my Saturdays is to wake up early, but on a brew of freshly ground coffee, and sit down to the National Post. With Frum, Ivison, Black, Jonas in the front section and Solomon, Foster, Corcoran and Watson in the Financial section, it’s a great read to see the Left so hopelessly outflanked week in and week out.
The great Robber Barons of this century will all be (big capital G) Green.
General Electric is already very well positioned.
Dupont much like Nobel, Vickers and Krup were once termed the….
MERCHANTS OF DEATH
different century…different MO…….
We wait patiently for Linda McQuaig’s – ‘More Dudes’.
An article from rolling stone in the same vein.
Goldman Sachs: “Engineering Every Major Market Manipulation Since The Great Depression http://www.zerohedge.com/node/943
It never was about global warming it has always been about money. The MSM are just paid employees that do what they are told.
read all that and i learned something. i have to become a very effective thief and or crook in my old age.
Dave Batters was such a coward. Only God shall take life; no otherth shall play me. Corinthians 3:22
An adult greeny who like most does not even have high school chemistry put forth the thesis; why not remove the C from Co2 making clean oxygen. Anyone have an eraser device. Duh
AGW Green Schizophrenia: I’m global warming/climate change and so am I.
Canadian Press/MSM is an accomplice to the Green Scam.
Green is a $$$$$$cam; a Big Government Pyramid Scheme.
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“B.C.’s carbon tax to jump on 1st anniversary”
“Recent polls have found that while Canadians support fighting global warming, they’re split when it comes to paying a carbon tax to battle climate change.” http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/06/30/bc-gas-tax-increase.html
Marc in Calgary wrote: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/taco_bells_new_green_menu_takes?utm_source=nav
I was in Minnesota recently (to visit my own website’s “bloggers”, not for some nefarious plan) and was somewhat amazed that ‘The Onion’ actually had a following, street-stand boxes and the same status as any other freebie “street paper”.
Why don’t we have that in Canada? Is it too subversive?
Having lived through this, let me explain what happened.
CFC’s had been around for a few decades. R-12 was cheap, very cheap. Commodity market; cost of production plus margin. The change to HFC gasses required us to carry twice the refrigerant as before. And we were viciously selective. It was/is possible to carry 3-4 times the refrigerant to have on hand what was out there. The cost of the replacements were 3-4 times the original. Dupont had a large number of refrigerants on the market, each one specific to a usage or market, with duplication. Commodity hell long gone. High margins.
We are into another change right now. R-22 equipment is now not available. The gas is available, prices are going up, and a bunch of alternatives are coming on the market. All at much higher prices, 6 times to what R-22 was two three years ago. And again, we will have to carry a couple of refrigerants where one was required before.
When the required efficiency rating for air conditioning was increased from 10 SEER to 13 SEER a few years ago the installation price was forecast by the proponents to increase maybe 7-9%. The real increase was >30%. The incentives out right now from the feds for Energy Star equipment which is greater efficiency than the base standard covers the cost difference + the inspection report compared to 13 seer equipment.
Expect the next round of standards to increase costs even more. And you will pay it. Your vegetables will be more expensive, frozen foods, anything refrigerated, or for that matter air conditioned stores.
And the nasty reality behind all this is the promised efficiency increases are valid if installed correctly and maintained correctly. Big if.
Derek
One of the highlights of my Saturdays is to wake up early, but on a brew of freshly ground coffee, and sit down to the National Post. With Frum, Ivison, Black, Jonas in the front section and Solomon, Foster, Corcoran and Watson in the Financial section, it’s a great read to see the Left so hopelessly outflanked week in and week out.
The great Robber Barons of this century will all be (big capital G) Green.
General Electric is already very well positioned.
Dupont much like Nobel, Vickers and Krup were once termed the….
MERCHANTS OF DEATH
different century…different MO…….
We wait patiently for Linda McQuaig’s – ‘More Dudes’.
An article from rolling stone in the same vein.
Goldman Sachs: “Engineering Every Major Market Manipulation Since The Great Depression
http://www.zerohedge.com/node/943
It never was about global warming it has always been about money. The MSM are just paid employees that do what they are told.
when Green starts to be ridiculed… Better Living Through Chemistry!
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/taco_bells_new_green_menu_takes?utm_source=nav
read all that and i learned something. i have to become a very effective thief and or crook in my old age.
Dave Batters was such a coward. Only God shall take life; no otherth shall play me. Corinthians 3:22
An adult greeny who like most does not even have high school chemistry put forth the thesis; why not remove the C from Co2 making clean oxygen. Anyone have an eraser device. Duh
AGW Green Schizophrenia: I’m global warming/climate change and so am I.
Canadian Press/MSM is an accomplice to the Green Scam.
Green is a $$$$$$cam; a Big Government Pyramid Scheme.
…-
“B.C.’s carbon tax to jump on 1st anniversary”
“Recent polls have found that while Canadians support fighting global warming, they’re split when it comes to paying a carbon tax to battle climate change.”
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/06/30/bc-gas-tax-increase.html
Marc in Calgary wrote: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/taco_bells_new_green_menu_takes?utm_source=nav
I was in Minnesota recently (to visit my own website’s “bloggers”, not for some nefarious plan) and was somewhat amazed that ‘The Onion’ actually had a following, street-stand boxes and the same status as any other freebie “street paper”.
Why don’t we have that in Canada? Is it too subversive?
Having lived through this, let me explain what happened.
CFC’s had been around for a few decades. R-12 was cheap, very cheap. Commodity market; cost of production plus margin. The change to HFC gasses required us to carry twice the refrigerant as before. And we were viciously selective. It was/is possible to carry 3-4 times the refrigerant to have on hand what was out there. The cost of the replacements were 3-4 times the original. Dupont had a large number of refrigerants on the market, each one specific to a usage or market, with duplication. Commodity hell long gone. High margins.
We are into another change right now. R-22 equipment is now not available. The gas is available, prices are going up, and a bunch of alternatives are coming on the market. All at much higher prices, 6 times to what R-22 was two three years ago. And again, we will have to carry a couple of refrigerants where one was required before.
When the required efficiency rating for air conditioning was increased from 10 SEER to 13 SEER a few years ago the installation price was forecast by the proponents to increase maybe 7-9%. The real increase was >30%. The incentives out right now from the feds for Energy Star equipment which is greater efficiency than the base standard covers the cost difference + the inspection report compared to 13 seer equipment.
Expect the next round of standards to increase costs even more. And you will pay it. Your vegetables will be more expensive, frozen foods, anything refrigerated, or for that matter air conditioned stores.
And the nasty reality behind all this is the promised efficiency increases are valid if installed correctly and maintained correctly. Big if.
Derek