Yes. If people want to build condos on top of a factory and that doesn't interfere with the factory why the hell not. Very little of DC is actually federal office space its more like should people be able to live in the neighborhood right next to the industrial park? Yes ofc.
You live in a post office district, a judicial district, and a congressional district. A district is a word that can be used to describe many things not something inherently different from a country or a state.
Why is DC a district not a state? It has nothing to do with the founders caring if people lived there or voted. It was because of the possibility of a state-federal clash. I.e if Maryland passed a law would it technically be sovereign over the federal government since the federal government presided in that state? Now if you know anything about DC you will know that there is a federal district called the national mall, that is run by the federal government and includes all the federal office buildings. There rest of DC is a largely residential and commercial city like any other that is run by the DC city council and mayor. Hardly anyone lives in the federal district which is the actual administrative area and most live in the city. furthermore three of the neighborhoods in DC predate the city, so people have lived in the DC area prior to there ever being a DC.
Ok so Econ 101 is basically just capitalist theory. In Econ 102 or above you start getting into debates about how the economy works, you got your keynsians and your classical liberals but Hayek and Krugman would both basically agree with everything taught in Econ 101.
But never mind that.
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The garbage business is a low cost to entry business. It cost very little to buy a pick up truck to carry your neighbors garbage to the dump. Nor does it cost that much money to buy some land for a dump. Very different from the amount of infrastructure power generation takes.
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I can guarantee you will not be able to start an energy company from your house for two reasons. 1. The power companies built and own all the electricity wires and existing power generation facilities. It is there property, they built it. It is going to cost you a ton of money to replicate that infrastructure with a second set of power lines. Since im assuming you want a FREE MARKET. Your also going to have to pay everyone who you run your power lines through their property a lot of money or lay down a lot of extra wire to go around people who don't want them. 2. You are going to have an economy of scale problem. If you build a large power plant per watt your energy costs a lot less than if you build a lot of little power plants. This because bigger generators are more efficient. If your making power with your average 20KWH generator that you could probably afford, It would cost you about national average 20 times as much as the grid. Obviously you could improve this somewhat by buying bigger generators, but your just not going to be able to be profitable or offer anything near competitive prices until you scale up to a industry standard generator that you can't afford. Never mind the fact that you absolutely could not afford to competitively ship your fuel sources via railroad or pipeline without tens of million of dollars in investment. If you try to ship it over by truck you would add another 20% to your operating costs. So no its impossible.
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Ok maybe you realize now that your going to need a big company to provide your power. But the government is just making things worse. Maybe you think the EPA studies showing that unregulated coal power plants spewing mercury and unburnt ash causing cancer is fake news and rivers should just be giant sewers and all these pesky regulations are whats freezing texans. Never mind that many more people would die of cancer than are going to freeze to death. We can go full Beijing and just have unregulated emissions and giant smog clouds. That would save a little bit of money probably if you don't factor in healthcare costs. It would not be good for rural areas though. You see we already have a much less regulated monopoly in the US in the form of Internet service providers. It costs a lot more to build power lines to middle of nowhere towns than to cities and just like ISPs do you can expect companies without government incentives to provide rural power, just not really doing so or providing it at exorbitant rates. Laying a hundred miles of wire to power 4000 homes is not a huge profit for the public utility company in comparison of laying a hundred miles that power 90,000 homes in the city. So like ISPs there just going to be pretty shitty service. Rural electrification was largely a government program. Companies would never provide power to little Montana towns if the government didn't give tens of billions of dollars in subsidies to do so. By setting price controls the government is basically subsidizing the cost of power to people in rural areas at the expense of people in cities. Which great for you if your going to be a consistent anti-government stan but your going to pay more in power and I a city dweller might pay less depending on how much the monopoly price gouges
Rome is the administrative area of Italy, London is the administrative area of the UK (and more than DC because the UK isn't a federal system) Pierre is the administrative area of South Dakota, people shouldn't live there.
Districts is an arbitrary name that means nothing. Should the 71st congressional district not have people, if we renamed your county (a division of an area for administrative purposes) a district should we ban people living there. Most people DC do not work for the government, its a pretty big city. Pretty much every other country in the world has their capital in a city where people live. If your arguing that DC is some artificial city created by the government. Well hate to break it to you many western cities are the former location of forts or places the government arbitrarily decided to put a town. The perfectly square counties of most western states were not decided based on natural cultural boundaries. DC is older than the vast majority of towns west of the Mississippi and most towns west of the Appalachians. I agree personally that DC shouldn't get two senators and instead should be incorporated into Maryland and should just give Maryland another house rep and become slightly deeper blue, because everyone in this country should be able to have representation, but DC having two senators would be a little much. That being said DC has more people in Wyoming or Vermont so maybe why not.
You guys know that the Myanmar military is backed by China, their party of choice represent the successor to the Burmese socialist party, and that there was no election fraud in Myanmar right? They kill christians too if that helps change your mind. Its like your cheering for the Chinese tanks at Tiananmen because you think it vaguely resembles whats going on in the US.
https://www.opendoorsusa.org/christian-persecution/world-watch-list/myanmar/
Ok energy companies doing the bare minimum to meet their terms of their contract, totally true. A tale as old as time. The rest of this causal narrative is wrong. So as someone who has taken a lot of Econ classes, the free market is not always competitive. To over simply a little bit. When cost of entry into an industry are low there tends to be a lot of businesses. If I charge 2$ for an apple it cost someone 10,000 dollars to start an apple farm and charge 1.50$ for an apple im probably going to have to lower my price. When cost of entry is really high, say like building a 600 million dollar power plant, theres not gonna be a lot of room for people to move into the industry. Which means producers dont really have to worry what consumers think within reason. If I charge you 100$ for electricity and its really worth maybe 80 no one is going to build all the power lines and the factory to undercut me. This is called a natural monopoly. There other of these like Big Tech, the media, the oil companies, and the big Pharma companies and we all know what benevolent overlords they are. There is no boutique public utilities companies nor will there ever be one. Now if am a natural monopoly beside being a price-gouger, I'm going to underproduce rather than over produce, because it is more profitable to do so that is universally agreed Econ 101. Look at the diamond industry. So if 1 in every 5 years my consumers are going to have a blackout because I didn't spend the additional 100 million dollars to winterize my power plant, im not going to fucking do it, because it truly is cheaper not to. And what are they going to do not pay for electricity. No the power generation industry in every country in the world is a top down business. You and your buddies from college aren't going to skip eating out for a few years to put a down payment on hundred of millions of dollars of equipment. The question is do you want regulated or unregulated monopolies. So the government can pay public utilities companies to build more wind power, which they probably might do anyway given how cheap wind is for them. Or the government could pay public utilities to winterize their factories, or they can do both, but the public utilities companies would never do it with their own funds in a place where the loss of power is relatively rare because the market will never make it profitable decision to do so.
I don't understand people like you. If your gonna make shit up about the holocaust why argue that you only killed 200,000 people. Like that is somehow any less morally reprehensible than killing 6 million. The holocaust began in earnest in 1941, 2 years into a 6 years war not at the end like you claim. Also the Einsatzgruppen logs show 800,000 recorded executions outside of the camps so the 200,000 number is ridiculous.
If any of you want to know about how the 6 million estimates was calculated heres the data. Anyway fuck off u/chairman_Jao_BI_Den.
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Minor historical critique judaism did not exist in 2000 BCE and there was no such thing called jews back then. Are you "not a nazi, those guys were communists I just hate jews, and the holocaust never happened type nazi" or are you a "sieg heil, the holocaust was great, I'm a nazi type nazi"
I don't think this issue is a renewables vs fossil fuels one. Both systems froze in Texas, both systems if properly weather proofed would not freeze. There are plenty of wind turbines in the north rn that are operating normally in colder temperatures. The problem in Texas is a perfect storm of 1. some disruption to normal power generation due to a hard to for see circumstance 2. a huge increase in power usage for heat 3. little reserve power because most systems go into mantience during winter as power usage is generally lower 4. an unconnected grid that couldn't siphon power from other places unlike any other part of the country.
Well I fully support Texans being able to decide to have independent power grid if there willing to bear the cost of it, which is stuff like this. Its not really Texas fault that their power grid isn't designed to deal with a 1 in 20 year ice storm, but this is what a unified power grid is for so, texans should weigh that when deciding.
Texas secession has always been like a little festival for the masses, a vial of hopium for the true diehards, its a joke, its never going to happen. Texas just doesn't want to have to deal with the same environmental regulations as the rest of the country. It has nothing to do with winning a war with the feds. Or not letting the Chinese build your grid. The construction of the grid is done by public utilities companies and contractors hired by state and municipal authorities not the fed and Texas could ban Chinese parts from being used in those contracts whether or not their grid was connected.
To entertain your notion. If there was a war the first thing the feds would do would be shoot a bunch of AGM-86 ALCM cruise missiles from bombers based in North Dakota or California probably and destroy all of Texas power plants making the grid more or less useless. If anything, Texas grid energy independence would just spare them having to blackout parts of New Mexico and Oklahoma.
Wind power employs about ~130,000 people, the coal industry employs about 54,000. The wind industry generates 7% of US power the Coal industry 23%. Its not quite 10x, but its still far more. Outside of West Virginia, a move towards more renewables would be a huge boon for rural America. It would employ a lot of people, and you obviously aren't going to be building solar or wind farms in the middle of cities. It costs about 40$ per MWH for onshore wind and 114$ per MWH for coal. The cost of building wind turbines is slightly higher than a gas factory but cheaper than a coal factory, but much of that is labor cost to American workers and it becomes much cheaper when factor in that once built wind is essentially free. Ofc wind energy is going to have to be back up with nuclear and probably some natural gas. Its not always windy and its not always sunny.
The idea that the wind industry is being held up by government subsidies though is stupid. Almost all power generation comes from public utilities monopolies who are given huge government subsides. Thats just how the energy industry works. Its a hell of a lot cheaper to invest in new technology than to have to have an aircraft carrier group off the Persian gulf 8 months a year. Opposition to wind energy is more about aesthetics and being duped by the oil lobby than actual concerns.
In case you guys think that windmills aren't reliable in the winter if they are properly weathered proofed just like any power source here you go:
this is a screed told by an idiot full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. I don't understand your point at all people shouldn't live in capital cities? because there arbitrarily not part of a state because James Madison didn't want to be subject to the rules of the Maryland legislature? This is just a moronic argument by someone with no understanding of how DC works as a city or understands that almost every capital in the world is inhabited and many were inhabited longer than they have been capitals including parts of DC