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Chinese-Americans are slowly moving into the republican party, the way Italian-Americans did starting in the 1950s. On Staten Island even more so. This is not surprising. Chinese-Americans are hard working, law-abiding, police-supporting, middle-class people. But the republican party has to do more to get Chinese-Americans to vote republican. Like recruiting Chinese-American candidates in heavily Chinese districts.
If they were here back in the 90s when Asians were solidly republican, they've been fooled and fooled by the Democrats for decades telling them that Republicans were the racist party when the Dems are the true silent racists here. I told people I knew that Democrats are never going to help Asians they need asians just to show they supported diversity but never showed up to help out.
I am really looking forward to the general election. It is going to be interesting. I went to the gas station and spent $70 and my tank still wasn't full!
When those heating bills start rolling in people may actually start paying attention to what is going on.
What specific mechanisms has do administration have that have any bearing on the price of oil and gasoline, especially in this very moment?
The democrats are very anti gas/oil production. They are all about green energy. Which is fine. But green energy is not yet at the production level to provide for the demands.
Democrats/NYC and NY state have been denying applications for expansion of pipelines and repair of existing pipelines for quite some time (OVER 4 years). Aging, inefficient and limited infrastructure means it is going to be more expensive to supply gas and oil to commercial and residential buildings.
I have first hand experience of this. When renovating a property 2 years ago I was told that if the property did not already have a gas meter and existing lines Department of Building would not approve our application to run new lines as the city 'is moving toward electricity for heating and cooking'.
Another contractor/investor was building a new multi family building on the block and was not approved for gas lines for the apartments. So the building is heated with electricity and the tenants use electric stove. Electricity is much more expensive.
There was also 2 other multi family (one 10 and one 15 stories) that were being renovated and they too had issues obtaining permit for gas lines. It was over two years later that they finally got the permit (something that should take a month at most).
I also bought oil and gas stock under the last administration. My stock portfolio has been doing handsomely since it is now in such high demand and these legislations makes it in short supply.
This was in the same time period that we pulled our permits to replace our existing aging gas lines. Luckily we already had the meter and the main line from the street.
All these people voting for these stupid laws that literally causes their monthly expenses to go up.
I saw the writings on the wall. This is why I spent over $30K to ensure all my apartments had their own gas meters and supply. Tenants tend to be very liberal. They don't care for the cost of anything when they don't pay it independently.
I knew these "anti gas line" legislations would cause the price of gas to go up.
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The next legislation that they are trying to push is that if you build a new house/undergo a major renovation, solar panels must be installed on the roof or the permits will not be approved. Guess whose rent is going up to cover the cost of such legislation?
There are tons of ways that we can implement these green initiatives without enforcing expensive and cumbersome regulations on existing business.
Almost 60% of energy is renewable energy in Nicaragua. You drive around and there are windmills, geothermal energy.
Other countries have solar farms and hydro energy.
They found a way to implement renewable energy in an affordable way that residents are more likely to embrace. This is a more efficient way than these legislations. Why is NYC and NY state not putting their money where their mouth is and establishing solar and windfarms? They pretend to care with useless legislations and no actions.
The next legislation that they are trying to push is that if you build a new house/undergo a major renovation, solar panels must be installed on the roof or the permits will not be approved. Guess whose rent is going up to cover the cost of such legislation?
There are tons of ways that we can implement these green initiatives without enforcing expensive and cumbersome regulations on existing business.
Almost 60% of energy is renewable energy in Nicaragua. You drive around and there are windmills, geothermal energy.
Other countries have solar farms and hydro energy.
They found a way to implement renewable energy in an affordable way that residents are more likely to embrace. This is a more efficient way than these legislations. Why is NYC and NY state not putting their money where their mouth is and establishing solar and windfarms? They pretend to care with useless legislations and no actions.
I am well aware of the plans. I have even spoken to executives who work for companies who intends to invest in the sector in NYC and New York state. However, these renewable energy options will not be up and running for atleast the next 5 to 10 years. It will be a massive undertaxing.
So they should have phased in the requirements for existing and new buildings to stop using gas and as well as gradually reduced the amount of approvals/permits granted for new pipelines. They did not.
I am well aware of the plans. I have even spoken to executives who work for companies who intends to invest in the sector in NYC and New York state. However, these renewable energy options will not be up and running for atleast the next 5 to 10 years. It will be a massive undertaxing.
So they should have phased in the requirements for existing and new buildings to stop using gas and as well as gradually reduced the amount of approvals/permits granted for new pipelines. They did not.
It was done in such a haphazard way.
That would have created a massive backlog with filings, inspectors, and Con Ed. Either way, I just posted the link to show that the conversations at least, are being had. If you were aware already, that's good.
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The politicos selling you on "fighting" climate change and diving headlong into "green energy" count on people like you to be ignorant of geopolitics/ global macro picture lest you realize how utterly stupid they are at playing this game.
Entire countries/regimes (with hundreds of millions of citizens) literally survive purely based on selling oil and gas. Do you really think that they'll roll over and die because some buffoon politicians in the West decide to set/announce policy in an entirely idiotic way?
This is way over your head and the politicians selling you their snake oil like it that way.
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