{"id":18017,"date":"2022-03-03T11:04:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T16:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=18017"},"modified":"2022-03-04T13:27:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T18:27:45","slug":"tax-time-and-other-painful-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/03\/tax-time-and-other-painful-realities\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Time and Other Painful Realities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the day.\u00a0 This afternoon I\u2019ll bundle up my wretched documentary evidence and head off to the tax accountant for another government mandated pummeling.\u00a0 It\u2019s like heading for the dentist with a toothache.\u00a0 You know there will be pain and annoyance.\u00a0 But what choice do you have?\u00a0 Well painful realities seem to be the order of the day.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I was listening to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2022\/03\/02\/farmer_to_tucker_carlson_your_grocery_bill_is_about_to_go_up_1000_a_month_due_to_fertilizer_prices.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview Tucker Carlson had with a farmer<\/a> about what the cost increases on fertilizers will do to the price of food.\u00a0 The numbers were staggering.\u00a0 He said that fertilizer prices had skyrocketed already and that natural gas prices were driving it.\u00a0 Part of this increase in natural gas prices stem from the Biden administration\u2019s shutting down of coal powered electrical plants.\u00a0 Add to this the decision by the Europeans to shut down their nuclear power plants and you see the perfect storm that is driving energy and food prices to unsustainable levels.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I\u2019m starting to believe there is a chance that Biden will be forced to make an about face on his stupid \u201cgreen energy\u201d policies.\u00a0 When people start suffering extreme hardship, actual hunger, that amount of anger might drive a revolt on both sides of the political street.\u00a0 November might be more than just a \u201cbloodbath.\u201d\u00a0 If we see blue states flipping their congressional delegations, I have no doubt that Dopey Joe will flip his script and discover his inner conservative.<\/p>\n<p>I know this sounds far fetched but there is currently a perfect storm of economic conditions that will hammer home how delusional green energy really is.\u00a0 Wind and solar power generators provide single digit percentages of our electrical capacity and even these low percentages are of low quality and necessitate additional gas turbine capacity to jump in when these green utilities inevitably peter out.<\/p>\n<p>And as much as this is hammering the American people, I think it could be an even bigger catastrophe for the Germans.\u00a0 They\u2019ve buckled under the pressure from the Biden administration and agreed to the sanctions against the Russians and cancelling the start up of the Nord Stream 2.\u00a0 What happens if the Russians stop sending them gas?\u00a0 They\u2019ll be buying it from the Saudis.\u00a0 And it will not be cheap.\u00a0 Add in the likelihood of a recession associated with all of this sticker shock for energy and food and you\u2019ll see a manufacturing country like Germany experiencing extreme economic pain.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there won\u2019t be any joy in my heart as I too suffer the consequences of Biden\u2019s madness.\u00a0 We\u2019ll all be reeling from the effects of inflation on our lives.\u00a0 But if any good can come from this it should be the realization by young people that idealistic and simplistic approaches to complex and deadly serious aspects of life are disastrous.\u00a0 Powering an industrial economy can\u2019t be achieved by wishful thinking and good intentions.\u00a0 It\u2019s the work of engineers and industrialists who have to work within the constraints of available resources and real-world tradeoffs between costs, environmental damage and reliability.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it will take an actual economic depression to pound home to these idiots the real world we live in.\u00a0 We never seem to make any permanent progress.\u00a0 Why are they called progressives anyway?\u00a0 Because they grow progressively more stupid?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chemist &#8211; &#8220;The most dangerous myth is the demagoguery that business can be made to pay a larger share, thus relieving the individual. 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