Warren Buffet, in a recent interview with CNBC, offered one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling: “I could end the deficit in five minutes,” he told CNBC. “You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible …
‘If you believe you are a citizen of the world you are a citizen of nowhere.’ Mrs May will pass into folklore with that line, just as Mrs Thatcher is remembered for ‘There is no such thing as society.’ It’s her own Mad May Queen utterance. And yet the sentence reveals a lot. It comes …
“For years there has been a lively debate about the pollution and disruption caused by building a new runway at Heathrow, (now to go ahead); these are valid concerns. But almost everyone ignores the issue that dwarfs all others: climate change. If our airports are full, there’s a solution: fly less. Is this beyond contemplation? …
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From Greg de Paco, New Westminster, British Columbia “George Monbiot is correct that if a transportation system were designed today with the objective of moving people around efficiently it would not focus on the private automobile. In North America our transportation systems were not designed for efficient movement but for auto industry profit. “The car …
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The Rocky Mountain Institute, an energy- focused think tank, says, in effect, that we are on the verge of an energy and technology transformation to rival the sudden decline of the coal industry. They point to the real technological transformation that could arrive from the merger of two vehicle trends — automation and electrification — and …
