Something To Think About Archive

The latest update from natural-resource consultants Goehring & Rozencwajg only darkens the picture for electric vehicles that the Biden Administration is all in on. You need to get 45 years of use out of an EV battery, which has an expected life of only 15 years, to offset the global CO2 cost of producing it. And now, California’s phasing out of diesel-powered heavy-duty trucks is going to weigh heavily on consumers as delivery costs rise. That is, if goods are delivered at all given our issues with mandated power outages and brown outs.

Modern dance pioneer Martha Graham “Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”

To paraphrase Michael Dell: “Know who you are. Know what to do.”

Venting only identifies the problem. It does not solve it.

“Life changes when you least expect it to,” observed Coach Jim Valvano. “The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.”

According to Winston Churchill, “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”

U.S. electricity demand growth has exploded primarily for new artificial-intelligence data centers, federally subsidized manufacturing plants for chips, and the government-driven electric-vehicle transition. Electricity required to power data centers is projected to increase by 13% to 15% compounded annually through 2030. And it won’t be renewables that gets the job done. Even Obama Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz is predicting that utilities will ultimately have to rely more on gas, coal and nuclear plants to support surging demand. Meanwhile California, New York and other green states are looking at more frequent and extended “brown-outs.”

It’s been said that “The trouble with trouble is that it always starts out just like fun.”

Chinese novelist Lin Yutang claimed that “Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.”

Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

French satiric moralist La Bruyere wrote: “Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its shortness.”

Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung believed that “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

The mass murder of Russian concertgoers by ISIS operatives, reminiscent of the recent slaughter in Israel, is especially tragic in that despite our warnings well in advance that something was imminent, Putin then proceeded to direct the blame on to Ukraine and us in order to deepen his hold on power.

Bill Gates defined “Daydreaming” as “Vision without execution.”

Richard Nixon believed that “A man is not finished when he is defeated. H is finished when he quits.”

According to philosopher and psychologist William James: “When you have a choice and don’t make it, that is, in itself, is a choice.”

John Steinbeck said: “Fear Corrupts.”

Anne Frank wrote: “The final forming of a person’s character is in their own hands.”

Last year the US paid $422 million to fund the UN Relief and Works Agency that feeds and shelters over one million in the mid-east. The same agency whose workers included at least a dozen that participated in the October 7th Hamas attack on Israeli citizens. Enough of throwing taxpayer money we don’t have at organizations and countries that hate us. It’s madness.

Stephen Covey believed that “Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”