47 responses to “Sandbox – 28aug16”

1. 

   Walt

   28 August 2016

   Glad to hear your wonder lust has been satisfied for the time being. The maiden voyage in our RV has yet to take place. Still a few modifications and repairs to happen first.
   Somewhere a Prius dies every time I start the motorhome.

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   George Rebane

   28 August 2016

   Walt 721pm – And where does the current plan point for the maiden voyage?

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   Bill Tozer

   28 August 2016

   Welcome back, good Doctor. While you were away, 2Q GDP was revised downward to something barely legible like 1.1%. But, the big news for all the choirboys here who look down their noses at the Black Hole of the Oakland Coliseum is…….is….is…..
   https://www.ncscooper.com/colin-kaepernick-converts-to-islam/

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   Don Bessee

   28 August 2016

   Whoda thunk that Weiner the tweeter, humas beard would go viral again and still as small as ever? Weiner sent a crotch shot to some coed with his little kid in the frame. Heck, he just offered to send his exact location to a college student in a sexting session last month. Does Huma have a fatwa from the muslum brotherhood?

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5. 

   George Boardman

   29 August 2016

   Did you perchance venture through the Samuel H. Boardman Scenic Corridor north of Brookings? It was named for my grandfather, who pretty much put together the Oregon park system.

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   George Rebane

   29 August 2016

   GeorgeB 924am – We did indeed and noted the name of your grandpa on the signs without making the connection. Now we know. Belated kudos to your celebrated ancestor.

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   Bill Tozer

   29 August 2016

   Not an Earth Shaking issue, but it speaks to how things are covered.
   https://www.facebook.com/thelindseyway/photos/a.1434661833429064.1073741834.1431308947097686/1817397201822190/?type=3&theater

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   Scott Obermuller

   30 August 2016

   Must be swell to live on whatever planet the Fed lives on. They sit around a table and say “I’m employed and you’re employed.” so…
   ‘Fischer also hinted that more than one rate may be justified if the incoming economic data remains strong. The U.S. economy, he stated, is “very close to full employment,”…’
   Yeah, you do that – keep ‘hinting’ about the next rate hike. They’ve boxed themselves into a corner and now a lot of pols are starting to squirm.
   Live by the sword and you’ll die by the sword. Printing money as an alternative to sound fiscal policy is fun for a while.

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9. 

   Bill Tozer

   30 August 2016

   Yes Scott, but the silver lining is the Fed says it is not buying up as many bonds as they used to. Do they own us?

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    Bill Tozer

    30 August 2016

    Hmmm. This seems anti-Proggie
    https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913.80726.51560645913/10153971581910914/?type=3&theater
    Racist! I see a racist! Get her.
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/700079566808935/?type=3&theater

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11. 

    Don Bessee

    30 August 2016

    http://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/08/30/democrat-state-ags-campaign-against-climate-deniers-unravels

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12. 

    Russ Steele

    30 August 2016

    Why California Can’t Build More Housing.
    The State of California (and the San Francisco Bay Area in particular) has become ground zero for the housing affordability crisis besetting major metropolitan areas across the country, eating up incomes, driving up inequality, and slowing economic growth. Governor Jerry Brown, who seems to recognize the threat that a dwindling housing stock poses to his state’s ongoing vitality, proposed a bold piece of legislation that would streamline the development process and sidestep onerous local stumbling blocks to new construction and in the process slow the meteoric rise in rents.
    But now Brown’s bill seems to be dead in the water, due in large part to resistance from an unlikely interest group. . . .
    This episode is a tragically characteristic of the blue model’s tendency toward self-contradiction—in this case, pitting unions against the poor and middle-class. The most sustainable way to make housing affordable to low and modest-income people is to relax rent-seeking regulations that block new construction for the sake of protecting the real estate values of property owners. But labor unions—which ostensibly stand for working class interests—will not stand for new construction unless it is accompanied by carve-outs and cronyist regulations that artificially boost their compensation.
    So despite the best of intentions, the California blue coalition has proven once again unable to deliver smart, broadly appealing, pro-middle class policy, forced instead of concede to one of the many powerful special interests that makes up its vast and increasingly incoherent political base.
    http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/08/29/why-california-cant-build-more-housing/
    Blue on blue stupidity will eventually destroy the state.

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13. 

    George Rebane

    30 August 2016

    Russ Steele 505pm – And it’s always important not to confuse ‘affordable housing’ – a lumbering political construct – with ‘low cost housing’ – where private enterprise seeks to meet market needs.

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14. 

    Bill Tozer

    31 August 2016

    My, Colin is a Hillary for Prison guy too.
    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tom-blumer/2016/08/30/press-reports-kaepernicks-comment-trump-ignores-his-prison-comment

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    Bill Tozer

    31 August 2016

    From the marijuana wars comes this bit of news:
    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/08/31/appeals-court-upholds-ban-on-gun-sales-to-medical-marijuana-card-holders.html

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16. 

    Walt

    31 August 2016

    The ECO gang has gone off the deep end.
    Get a load of this story from up North.
    http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/31/the-war-on-coal-unexpectedly-hits-a-washington-town-struggling-to-get-by/
    “Regulators want the project to mitigate 50 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions generated not only at the site, but also from the use of the exported coal in Japan or Korea. Supporters call the regulation unprecedented; no other project in the state has been forced to consider life-cycle emissions.”

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17. 

    Walt

    31 August 2016

    Bill.. Hillary for prison? I have the T-shirt! My converted LIB daughter got it for me.

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18. 

    Bill Tozer

    31 August 2016

    Walt, if your daughter converted, then there is hope for me as well. My “Make America Great Hat” arrived. Very sturdy construction I must say.
    AGW! Climate Change!! Now, where did all this “97% of scientists agree” figure come from????
    From the book “A Disgrace to the Profession”.
    An opinion survey of earth scientists on global climate change was conducted by Margaret R K Zimmerman, MS, and published by the University of Illinois in 2008.
    Aside from his support from Dr Pantsdoumi, Mann often claims the imprimatur of “settled science”: 97 per cent of the world’s scientists supposedly believe in catastrophic anthropogenic global warming requiring massive government intervention. That percentage derives from a survey conducted for a thesis by M R K Zimmerman.
    The “survey” was a two-question, online questionnaire sent to 10,257 earth scientists, of whom 3,146 responded.
    Of the responding scientists, 96.2 per cent came from North America.
    Only 6.2 per cent came from Canada. So the United States is overrepresented even within that North American sample.
    Nine per cent of US respondents are from California. So California is overrepresented within not just the US sample: it has over twice as large a share of the sample as Europe, Asia, Australia, the Pacific, Latin America and Africa combined.
    Of the ten per cent of non-US respondents, Canada has 62 per cent.
    Not content with such a distorted sample, the researchers then selected 79 of their sample and declared them “experts.”
    Of those 79 scientists, two were excluded from a second supplementary question. So 75 out of 77 made it through to the final round, and 97.4 per cent were found to agree with “the consensus”. That’s where the 97 per cent comes from.
    So this is a very Michael Mann “reconstruction”: just as a couple of Californian bristlecones can determine the climate for a millennium, so a couple of dozen Californian scientists can determine the consensus of the world.
    Nonetheless, the compilers also invited comments from respondents and published them in the appendices. In terms of specific scientific material, the hockey stick attracted three comments – one blandly positive, the other two not so much.
    Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/055159_man-made_climate_change_University_of_Colorado_scientific_debate.html#ixzz4IykAPgdb
    http://www.naturalnews.com/055151_global_warming_science_hoax_climate_skepticism.html

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19. 

    Walt

    01 September 2016

    Damn Bill!! Paul is going to need a vacation when he gets back. He better tell us how much time he spent here. https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/1705240/everyone-who-enters-intends-to-have-sex-inside-the-burning-man-festivals-orgy-dome-where-5000-horny-revellers-get-down-and-dirty-every-year/

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20. 

    Bill Tozer

    01 September 2016

    Caught in their own snare, again.
    http://heatst.com/culture-wars/michigan-students-protest-new-gender-neutral-lounge/
    Funny, I don’t have a problem with black only dorms or chess clubs or any groups wanting to assemble with whoever they chose. I get it that black students don’t like white Limousine Sorority Co-Eds asking if they can touch a black sister’s hair or if they get sunburn. Housing is the ultimate private place. A man’s home is his castle and all that stuff. A person likes to be around those they can relate to or those who understand where they are coming from. But, no……Forced diversity is not a natural occurance outside of the military and HUD.
    The silver lining is that even Social Justice Warriors are beginning to see that boys are indeed different than girls and not all cultures are good. White Male Western European is bad, the cause of all of society’s ills. I laughed yesterday when I read about a dorm that was going to be a 100% safe place with no micro aggressions tolerated. In other words, speak only when spoken to and keep your opinions to yourself (unless it was an opinion that one’s Sociology Professor uttered). Difference of opinions is hurtful, so zip it. Hey, knock yourselves out. Better to work out the kinks in the plan within the safe controlled confines of a campus than out “there”. Out there people have freedoms and a quick to express contraire opinions. The people business is a messy business.
    There is a difference between a movement and a cult. In time our Snowflakes will realize being a cult leads to isolation and authoritarianism and much unhappiness, not to mention frustration. This is not Nazism on our campuses via our Social Justice Warriors. Nope. This is Stalinism. Caught in their own snare once again.

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21. 

    Bill Tozer

    02 September 2016

    Burning Man update:
    http://dangerousminds.net/comments/san_francisco_group_proposes_300_mile_7.3b_wall

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22. 

    George Rebane

    02 September 2016

    Would like to know from the more knowledgeable readers what is the purpose of Burning Man. What are the takeaways that draw the tens of thousands to a crowded God-forsaken hunk of Nevada desert while inducing them to pay more than $300 a pop for the privilege?

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23. 

    fish

    02 September 2016

    “Democrats were indeed dire about Romney, even though many of them, including President Obama, now speak of him fondly, as a Republican whose prescriptions might be flawed but whose heart is true.
    Four years ago, he was a bloodsucking capitalist vampire whose indictment of Obamacare was ipso facto proof of his racism. In The Daily Beast, he was called a “race-mongering pyromaniac.” On MSNBC, he was accused, by a black commentator, of the “niggerization” of Obama into “the scary black man who we’ve been trained to fear.”
    Romney was supposedly out of touch with reality — never mind that he had governed a blue state, Massachusetts, without cataclysmic incident — just as McCain was described, in some quarters, as a combustible hothead who couldn’t be allowed anywhere near the nuclear codes. He was Trump before Trump, which makes Trump less Trump.
    And those are just the presidential candidates.”

    Just wait until Trump loses and the economy really augers in…….next time might actually bring a “Hitler”. But the left, scared rabbits that they are, think no further into the future than the next election, next bribe through the State Department, next EBT card recharge….they just can’t seem to wrap their heads around the notion that when the money runs out their lives are going to get a whole lot more unpleasant!
    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/opinion/campaign-stops/crying-wolf-then-confronting-trump.html?_r=0

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24. 

    Walt

    02 September 2016

    Dr.R. That question needs to be asked of Paul.(if he finds his way home.)
    It’s my recollection that some guy who’s wife of girlfriend had left him, went on a two week bender and made a big flammable stick man, and burned his girl’s new boyfriend in effigy. Other dudes left in the dust by their women made it a yearly event. Like many other things, LIBS hijacked his little party and now it’s orgyville.
    Now. how many illegals have been hired to mop up the mess, “in there”?

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25. 

    Bill Tozer

    02 September 2016

    The purpose of Burning Man is complete unfettered decadence. I thought tickets were 600-800 clam shells, but what do I know? Paul does not go to BM per his statement on this blog. He can’t go anyway because he has to save up to pay off those bets he made in a rather cocky moment. Hey, the experts say it’s My Gal all the way.
    You know, when I played the ponies, if you put money only on the track betting 2nd fav to win, you would beat the house fav more often than not. My favorite play was to pick a horse who had an unequivoble history of coming from behind every race no matter what field, class or distance the pony was entered in. Loved it when that kind of horse was running at 11-17 to 1. Just saying Paul might collect some, might pay out a bunch. He is busy busy busy hoping his tip jar gets bigger…..just in case.
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202267665250092&set=p.10202267665250092&type=3&theater

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26. 

    fish

    03 September 2016

    ….and in other news unpleasant little North Korean dictator does his best Tom Cruise impersonation.
    https://twitter.com/DPRK_News?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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27. 

    Walt

    03 September 2016

    Now here I thought Paul was one never to miss BM. And it took Bill to set me straight.
    Now “jon” on the other hand,,,, Will still be lost on the alkali flats till the next one rolls in.

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    Bill Tozer

    03 September 2016

    Walt, I found jon! He was with the hooligans that dumped out all the potable water, cut off the power to the refrigeration, and glued the trailor doors shut so the grub would smell worse than Dozer. Oh my, teenage enema nurses running amok. Anybody know where Michael A has been the last couple of days?
    http://www.rgj.com/story/life/arts/burning-man/2016/09/02/burning-man-plug-n-play-camp-vandalized/89796020/

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29. 

    fish

    03 September 2016

    If you haven’t been following the DPRK News Service Twitter feed you simply have no idea what you deny yourself!
    In the “news you can use” category……..
    

    “United States supply of rubes, hayseeds, bumpkins and rednecks said to be unaffected by earthquake in Oklahoma province.”

    https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/772065919942221824

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30. 

    fish

    04 September 2016

    Now this is just sad…..first all the economic and refugee woes and then…..this!
    

    “French president Francois Hollande suffers global humiliation at returning for remedial instruction in geometry.”

    https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/771331872185982976

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31. 

    George Rebane

    04 September 2016

    fish 1148pm – Not a problem Mr fish, you’re our man in charge of monitoring the DPRK 😉

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32. 

    fish

    04 September 2016

    Posted by: George Rebane | 04 September 2016 at 08:00 AM
    Proud to be one of the vigilant monitors of the “Onion” like communiques issued from the Hermit Kingdom.

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33. 

    fish

    04 September 2016

    ….and in that role I’m pleased to bring you guys something from a little closer to home!
    

    “Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro is forced to flee public speech by mob of overzealous admirers, drawn to his irresistible magnetism.”

    https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/772372749834682368

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    Walt

    04 September 2016

    WOW!! Crime at the Unicorn ranch. You know full well “White” was the trigger word.

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35. 

    fish

    04 September 2016

    With all the remakes of classic films switching to predominately female casts (Ghostbusters, etc.)….it’s good to see Cheryl Mills and Hillary Clinton reprise the Morgan Freeman/Jessica Tandy duo from Driving Miss Daisy where a kindly African American sees to the needs of a doddering elderly white woman.
    It’s the feel good film of the season!
    http://nypost.com/2016/09/04/meet-the-mastermind-behind-clintons-massive-email-coverup/

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36. 

    Gregory

    06 September 2016

    I have not seen any new photos of Jeff Pelline for quite some time… any sightings?

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37. 

    Don Bessee

    06 September 2016

    There you go and spoil a nice day. 😉

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38. 

    Bill Tozer

    07 September 2016

    The economy:
    Bad sign:
    http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/06/weak-services-data-raises-big-red-flag-on-economy-and-pushes-back-fed-rate-hike-odds.html
    Well, when a recession makes nail pounders seek employment in other fields or just plum give up, this is what happens. Looking for tradesmen at all levels of experience. Need 200,000 more electricians, roofers, tile guys, and framers nationwide. Not a large amount in the total employment picture but maybe some who dropped out of the work force can put the tool belt back on. Better than giving this cyclical work to illiterate people from the 7th Century.
    http://fortune.com/2016/09/06/housing-construction-worker-shortage/

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39. 

    Russ Steele

    09 September 2016

    Governor Brown doubles down on producing economic friction by extending and enhancing AB-32. I have some thoughts on the impact here:
    https://sierrafoothillcommentary.com/2016/09/09/gov-brown-doubles-down-on-increasing-economic-friction-extents-ab-32/

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    Bill Tozer

    09 September 2016

    It’s bigger than our phone book, smaller than a bread box.
    http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-voter-guide-november-ballot-20160909-snap-story.html

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41. 

    Bill Tozer

    09 September 2016

    In remembrance of 9/11.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9pqocbUKqiY

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42. 

    Walt

    10 September 2016

    Here we go again! The state mandates another ” California special”.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-nears-adoption-energy-saving-rules-computers-020526404.html
    Count on the new cost to eat up any savings.(+25%) Anything electric in Ca. already has “ECO” settings. Just wait till they figure a new tax into the works.

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43. 

    Russ Steele

    13 September 2016

    California Climate Change Legislation Targets Flatulent Cows
    California’s inane battle against climate change has resulted in even more toxic legislation.
    Last week, our legislature approved a bill targeting cow flatulence and manure, which lawmakers blame for releasing greenhouse gases.
    Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) authored the bill, which passed shortly before the end of the legislative session. Lara agreed to a compromise that will give dairy farms more time to comply with the new regulations.
    Critics have expressed concerns the new regulations will result in an increase in the price of milk from California cows. Proponents of the bill say methane emissions have a huge influence on the climate.
    The legislation also calls for efforts that would significantly increase composting in order to eliminate the amount of food waste in landfills. Food waste releases methane when it breaks down.
    The timeline will also allow more dairy farmers—and their cows—to move out-of-state as well.
    Read more here:
    http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/09/california-climate-change-legislation-targets-flatulent-cows/
    Californian’s and cows will all enjoy their new Texas home and pastures.
    Something really stinks in Sacramento . . . and it’s not cow “emissions”

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44. 

    George Rebane

    13 September 2016

    RussS 1242pm – Thanks for the comment. Unfortunately that is all part and parcel of our progressive disease, an easily foisted mental condition in the pre-educated for which there is no known cure. Such crap will continue in California as long as Democrats rule Sacramento. Long live the SoJ movement.

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45. 

    Gregory

    13 September 2016

    In the Dan Waters SacBee editorial over the weekend he spoke of a new study that pegs California’s unfunded public pension liability to be `1 Trillion dollars (for the mathematically challenged, that’s a million briefcases containing a million dollars apiece), up from $450 billion (that’s 450 thousand briefcases containing a million dollars apiece).
    That green prosperity had better kick in quick before the above bill becomes due.
    Hint… it won’t.
    A fun game to play with people… draw a line across the page. Make the leftmost end zero, the rightmost end a trillion. Ask them to put a dot where a billion is on that number line. Average people don’t have a clue.

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46. 

    Gregory

    13 September 2016

    the Walters piece is here
    http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/dan-walters/article100871752.html

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47. 

    Russ

    14 September 2016

    Venture Capitalists Abandoned Clean Energy
    During the debate over AB-32 vs the initiative to delay implementation until the states economy recovered, Steven Frisch and other liberals challenging Initiative crowed about Venture Capitalist investing in green energy. Now for the reality check in the WSJ:

    Why Venture Capitalists Abandoned Clean Energy
    Two experts say high costs and low returns sent venture capitalists fleeing. A new funding model, they say, is crucial.
    A decade ago, clean-energy companies were the hot trend that venture capitalists were chasing. Oil and natural-gas prices were on the rise and Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” had just made its premiere.
    But high hopes that the clean-energy sector would replicate the big returns of biomedical and software startups quickly faded. Instead, monumental losses piled up: Venture-capital investors lost more than half of the $25 billion they pumped into clean-energy technology startups from 2006 to 2011.
    A study of why venture capital and clean energy haven’t been a good match was launched by Benjamin Gaddy, director of technology development at Clean Energy Trust, a startup accelerator in Chicago, and Varun Sivaram, the Douglas Dillon fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. In a paper recently published through the MIT Energy Initiative and written with Francis O’Sullivan, the Energy Initiative’s director of research, they predict future funding for energy startups increasingly will come from more-patient providers than venture capitalists—including groups like the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, formed by Bill Gates and more than two dozen wealthy investors last year. And they argue that established energy companies and governments need to play a bigger role in nurturing clean-energy startups.

    Read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-venture-capitalists-abandoned-clean-energy-1473818402
    According to Koel Kotkin and the high cost of energy and legislative friction is driving business and money from the state. More here: https://sierrafoothillcommentary.com/2016/09/09/gov-brown-doubles-down-on-increasing-economic-friction-extents-ab-32/

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