Natural gas

It is well known that the reason the US has been able to reduce its carbon footprint is the use of natural gas in power plants. The reduction could have been much greater if the US used natural gas for transportation. This change over could have started 50 years and be completed. There are 23 million natural gas vehicles (CNG) in the world including 175,000 in the US and 50,000 heavy duty trucks. The 2,200 buses in LA county and 26,000 waste management garbage trucks use natural gas. Natural gas releases 30% less CO2 than gasoline. In addition gasoline releases nitric oxide causing acid rain along with carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons. Natural gas burns cleaner, engines run cleaner and cost less per mile. Natural gas can help auto companies meet the new tail pipe standards.

Grassley

Senator Grassley has been around Washington longer than Biden but he is naive. A whistle blower has come forth with damaging information on Biden that happened when Biden was VP. Grassley has subpoenaed the documents. If this is true then the FBI has been sitting on incriminated evidence for seven years and they are not going to come forth with it now. These documents, if they exist, will go the way that Hillary's email went. Another option would be the refusal of the Attorney General to enforce the subpoena and a third would be to have Biden classify the documents. That is why Grassley is naive.

Cancel

Grand Napear was the sports broadcaster for the Sacramento Kings for 32 years and he hosted a radio talk show on the same station for 26 years. He was asked on Twitter what he thought of BLM and he responded that all lives matter and lost his job. This is an example of cancel culture and proof that we are losing our right to free speech. There are many recent cases where invited speakers on college campuses are shouted down. Many people do not believe in cancel culture but Napear does.

Sea lanes

Iran seized another oil tanker yesterday, the second in the past week. Since the end of globalization the United States no longer protects the sea lanes around the world so this type of piracy will happen more often. This type of thing was expected when the US no longer protected shipping and is likely to continue and to escalate. This is bad news for China since they do not have the naval capacity to protect their imports and exports. If this continues insurance companies will stop insuring and that will bring halt to all shipping. The US with a world wide naval force can and will protect American shipping.

Children

People often use the slippery slope argument to prevent some action by some group. Sometimes the threat is legitimate. Some years ago condoms became available at drug stores with no age limits and later schools began handing out condoms to students without notifying the parents. Next came abortion without parental consent. Now there are abortion pills online regardless of age. The latest is in the state of Oregon gender altering surgery is available without parental consent. For many years there were special laws protecting children from real and perceived harm but in recent years this idea has lost importance. Some things remain such as having child porn on your computer or having intimate relations with a child regardless of consent. The latest is California is trying to pass a law making pedophilia legal. It hasn't passed yet but remember the slippery slope. Is having sex with animals next?

Toxic

College campuses today are rife with battles between the oppressed and the oppressors and in most cases the oppressors are toxic white males. We see how the founding fathers have come under attack but it need not stop there. Nobel Prize winners are 90% white males. The classic musicians like Mozart and Beethoven are 90% white males. The great artist are 90% white males. The claim is that these white males suffer from white privileged can be substantiated by history but all that has changed in America. Women have made enormous gains in the past 50 years and are headed even higher and this is a trend that should be encouraged. This is how they catch up to the men. What is not needed is to bring down the men by subjecting them to criticism for past mistreatment of women. The same can be said for any group that has been oppressed. Bring them up. This is what has been happening and should continue. The unfair treatments of the past can best be overcome by bringing the oppressed people up by offering them opportunities to succeed. One of the great success stories is the education of American women who have now surpassed men in every category. This is the first step in changing the disparities in pay and opportunities in business and government. Correcting the inequities of thousands of years takes time. Efforts should be made to speed up the time but not by degrading men but rather buy opening doors for women.

Myorkas

Former Chicago Mayor Lightfoot ....Sunday, she sent a letter to Governor Abbott urging him not to send migrants because the city is at capacity and is struggling to provide resources and shelter for those who are already here. We are averaging 125 migrants per day. There are a half dozen Texas border towns that would be relieved if their migrant count was that low. Lightfoot should follow the lead of NY Mayor Adams and ask Biden for help. The problem with illegals has been going for years and Lightfoot expressed no concern until they arrived in Chicago. Things always look different when they are close to home. This past week a man who had been deported five times killed five members of the family next door. He was drinking and firing his gun in the front yard and when the neighbor asked him to stop he just killed the neighbors family. Using the same logic as the Chicago case if five members of Secretary Myorkas's family had been killed by an illegal he might see the border in a different light.