Health Insur increased 20% !!!

[BigmanPigman]

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t02.htm

Why aren't the Dems shouting about this number?!? I renewed my ACA and was told that most Health Insur has increased this much. Food increased 13%. How much of a COLA did YOU get this year? I bet it wasn't 20%!

[democratisphere]

1. All health insurance will only continue to increase as the costs are

increasing at a rate of 9% per year. Congress continues to do absolutely nothing about THIS, and so it will continue.

[progree]

2. Yup on the health insurance. But where did you get the food increase number?

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[] ( 14 ) Researchers discover safe, easy, and affordable way to store and retrieve hydrogen, 7/10/23--
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=1127164021

[] Tiedrich: what the ... Maureen Dowd 7/10/23 -- Paladin brings up her Biden grandkids column - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218077734#post4

1***[] ( 3 ) The 1: 6: 90 Rule - from Toyota - The amount of raw materials in one long-range battery electric vehicle could instead be used to make 6 plug-in hybriid electric vehicles or 90 hybrid electric vehicles. The overall carbon reduction those 90 hybrids over their lifetimes is 37 times as much as a single electric vehicle (and there are a lot more claims, I need to spend more time with this), Ca;ribbeans 6/9/23 -- More above in notepadb.t news section ####### I WROTE LENGTHILY ABOUT IT in the Econ group: https://www.democraticunderground.com/111696242#post1 ###### https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=1127163999

REED[] ( 5 ) Labor Market Headfake 7/3/23 -- https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=111696216
Pe;ppertree says "3.3%" inflation during Bush's 2nd term, implying that they were much higher I think, "calamitous and almost hyperinflationary"
ME: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUSR0000SA0?output_view=pct_1mth 1/2005: 191.6 1/2009: 211.933 = 10.61% (2.55% annualized). Well it peaked 7/2008 at 219.016
So its 1.14309 (3.899% annualized) - see normal.xls Sheet2 row 416

2***REED[] ( 3 ) (WATCH VIDEO actually) The average family pays $155,000 in Wall Street fees on their 401K (The Retirement Gamble) Why Index Funds are much better -- Qu;ixote1818 https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=
### On Bu;colic "concentration risk" RSP ETF - https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/RSP/ -- 0.20% expense ratio. ### I have some notes in N581.AI in minus .emaill to.do, including my opinion of it to A H;ERETIC


BOOKMARK THREAD ( 6 ) (LC 7/11/23 ) Hydrogen Powered Ferry ... NNADIR - How big does California's solar industry have to be "to provide one Exajoule of average continuous power to the state using hydrogen." -- about 1/4 the land area of California at an average continous power of 11,600 MW. - 7/7/23
[] BTW Think. Again says " Most, if not all new hydrogen plants are being built with solar or wind as the energy source. Wouldn't really make sense otherwise." https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=1127163905

***BOOKMARK THREAD ( 52 ) (LC 7/11/23) Hunter 7/8/23 (#40) .. Every fucking day with fossil fuels is worse than any of those (in response to "Chernobyl, 3 mile island, Fukushima", https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=100218074496

BOOKMARK THREAD ( 81 I don't know how many I've red ) (LC 7/11-11a ) People forget lifetime caps on health insurance https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=100218066020

BOOKMARK THREAD ( 2 ) (LC 7/11/23) hydrogen car - 1546 miles on just one kilogram of hydrogen fuel (a mini vehicle) https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=100218067510
==> [] There's one in E&E too: Eco-Runner broke the World Record _____________

BOOKMARK THREAD ( 16 ) (LC 7/11/23, last post 7/6.) Everyone Wants Feedback - question everything -- Only one rep touched on anything of interest -- the employee might get hurt if you don't rate at all. (Me: or rate anything less than 5 stars) -- https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=100218067198

REED[] ( 148 - I've red them all Last post 7/6) (LC 7/11/23) Biden's hydrogen bombshell It's in the Left Column. Its turned into a LONG ONE with NN;adir and Th;ink. Again involved. NN calls it a big mistake on Biden's part. https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=100218065872
#143 - TA brings up please be sure to include the planetary atmospheric CO2 concentration levels after 70 years of our use of nuclear power plants.
#144- NN: U.S. built more than 100 nuclear reactors in 25 years while providing the cheapest electricity in the industrial world. (#77: Jim Hansen showed in 2013 these reactors, many still working today saved close to 2 million lives. More on Hansen in #92)
#104 Post removed - Looks like NN got a hide, replying to Trust_Reality asks in #71, quoting NN: "hydrogen is a dirty fuel"??? Who do you work for? -- No absolute proof it was a NN post but the context is overwhelming and he has 3 hides as of 7/11 11a (last time I checked, like 2 weeks ago it was 2 hides)
#147 - TA last word to NN (likely no NN response because of the hide): Or the fossil fuel industry went all out to discourage any non-CO2 sources of energy at the same time that the global population doubled.
#100 - TA on some new way to store hydrogen - "scientists at Lancaster University in the UK have discovered a new material that can store four times more hydrogen in the same volume as current fuel cell technologies. It also doesn’t require external heating and cooling." with link and excerpt
#132 - TA: "Numbers don't lie, but people do use numbers to lie."
#136 - TA (in battle with pro-nuke Celerity): "I also have a post-graduate science education ... and I have a responsibility to correct falsehoods on important matters. I am also a member of our shared society and I will not tolerate the personal abuse, psychological manipulation, and deceit that Nnadir employs to cover their deliberate misinformation. ... I see no point in witholding corrections to Nnadir's intentional and dishonest attempts to build negative public opinion about non-CO2 energy sources.
#134 - About the BASF plant that NN says was shut down, it was shut down to transition to non-CO2 energy sources (see NN's #92). NN had no response
#101 - Hunter touts plug-in hybrids (I really should find the article... I found it, it is in Book project and Energy Metalist)
#NickB79 has some anti-hydrogen posts.

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BOOKMARK THREAD ( 26 ) (LC 7/11/23 -- last post 7/2/23.) - Cheers ... The US is set to add 41 GIGAWATTS of solar power in the next 12 months -- NN;adir says that 41 GW at California's 2022 CF of 26.2% is 0.339 exajoules on a planet that used 624 exajoules in 2022. The 26.2% California CF is optimistic for the nation on average (less sun more panel-covering snow). Math is correct - see notes below: s. for post ID 1127;163;632 ### Th;ink. Again responds that he doesn't advocate using natural gas as backup, but rather batteries and hydrogen, and more renewable energy ... These methods are not fantasies, they are up and running and producing energy every day. ### #5-I'm not an anti-nuke antinuke again, twice #### TA: Yes, it is obvious you don't care about our need to stop using fossil fuels,### TA: I believe your wish to only use natural gas for any back-up system is wrong. ## NN says he's done ## Hu;gh Le;bowski jumps in ## TA #9 - (HUH?) "DUE TO NUCLEAR'S LIMITED USE" ## Both TA and HL agree on limiting children. # NN;adir #14- (rejoins the thread) nasty, alertable except its kind of indirect, for one, it's a reply to Hu;gh . He tells Hu;gh that he hasn't characterized his views well at all - I NEED TO STUDY THIS ## Mickju makes a statement of support of NN; ### Looks like Th;ink has given up since he posted 548p in another thread ### Hu;gh in #16 tells NN;adir he would get a better reception if he tones down the condescending attitude ... you kinda take it to another level my friend (In #20 NN replies to Hugh and then they go back-and-forth) # Th;ink in #19 quotes NN: "An asshole saying "radiation is dangerous" without producing any data for deaths from radiation has no ability to read or think." and replies "
"How can anyone take this seriously?" https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=1127163632
NN #22 is VERY HIDE-WORTHY, but its 7/2.
#25 Hugh - I've spoken with Th;ink Ag;ain in DM's and s/he's maintained that this in fact their position, that they think 'use nuclear where it makes sense, all that matters is the end goal of less CO2'.

BOOKMARK THREAD ( 8 ) - Hydrogen is getting big, fast -- Ce;ntralMass (Hydrogen skeptic vs. Th;ink. Again -- Compared to battery EV's it requires 3x the energy to produce hydrogen for use in a HFCV then it does to charge a battery -- TA: limited battery material, e.g. lithium. CM: battery recycling has advanced considerably and so have batteries ### Hydrogen industry newsletter https://www.fchea.org/ , /newsletters ## https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=1127163581

BOOKMARK THREAD ( 13 ) - Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engines And Hydrogen Fuel Cells -- Th;ink. Again "HYDROGEN DOES NOT...HAVE TO BE MADE...FROM FOSSIL FUELS. You are spreading disinformation again and that is killing people because it slowing the transition away from fossil fuels." #### #12 Hunter #12 - Hydrogen is not a good fuel ... I was doing the math on this in the late 'seventies and early 'eighties and I couldn't make it work ... I will say the math still doesn't support the use of hydrogen as a fuel. ## 13-Ca;ribbean takes Hunter on point by point
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=1127163596

BOOKMARK THREAD ( XX ) (LC 02/6p) - Sinopec's first green hydrogen plant - not of interest (

BOOKMARK THREAD ( 10 ) - "Show this to anyone who says renewables are unreliable". (about Texas grid saved by wind and solar) ### NN;adir #5 with ERCOT real time data snapshot, 950p CT - I would alert on this except its so long (see last 4 paragraphs) -- NN #7 - Anyone, and I do mean anyone, who hypes solar and wind garbage just doesn't give a fuck about climate change. #9 - There is not one person on this planet who favors the failed solar and wind industry who gives a rat's ass about fossil fuels or climate change. (also "I'm not an antinuke" antinukes) https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=1127163498

BOOKMARK THREAD[] ( 15 ) (LC 30/740p ) Federal Reserve says 23 biggest banks weathered severe recession scenario in stress test -- Bu;mrushdashow: when Greenspan said "everything is going well" before the 2008 crash, there were no stress tests - Dodd Frank created those https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=10143094497

BOOKMARK THREAD ( 8 ) (E&E) (LC 30/740p ) Is Fukushima Wastewater release safe? Ca;ribbeans on Fukushima water, NN;adir responds. In #5 Th;ink. Again hard-hits NN on the nasty rhetoric - https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=1127163426

BOOKMARK THREAD[] ( 16 ) (LC 30/740p ) Forget Oil. New Wildcatters Are Drilling For Limitless 'Geologic' Hydrogen ( Ca;ribbeans and Ni;ckB79 go at it on leaked hydrogen's effect on global warming, see espec. #15 and #16. Also #5, #7 and #9 swipes at NN. )
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=1127163405

BOOKMARK THREAD[] ( 23 ) (LC 30/740p ) Heat is battering Texas's power grid. Are giant batteries the answer? -- #14 & #23 on battery storage length. Also NN; and As;syria on personality characteristics-- https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=1127163263

BOOKMARK THREAD[] ( 6 ) (LC 30/740p ) (LBN) Fukushima nuclear plant operator says equipment to release treated wastewater into sea is complete -- Ca;rribean gets into it -- https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=10143093524

BOOKMARK THREAD[] ( 24 ) (LC 30/740p) -- Where would we be with CO2 without our 3.063 trillion dollar solar and wind infrastructure? -- Th;ink. Again v. NN;adir and Hu;nter -- OP has my favorite IEA World Energy Supply table page 435 that I could comment on (see Bo;ok PRoject) ### No answer to TA's #20 ## -- https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=1127163343

BOOKMARK THREAD[] ( 35 ) (LC 30/740p ) - Rent is falling https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=10143093329

BOOKMARK THREAD[] ( 17 ) (LC 30/740p) - Siemens Gamsea CEO: "The result of the current review (of wind turbines) will be much worse... -- NN;ADIR vs. Th;ink. Again. Th;ink. Again strange post #5 (it says the average nuclear plant is 1 GW and the example TA uses, Ginni, has a 92% CF when one does the math. Later: didn't NN;ads claim 3 NPP's would do it all?).
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BOOKMARK THREAD[] ( 5 ) (LC 28/510p) How a floating hydrogen farm has moved China closer to clean renewable energy, 6/24/23 -- https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=1127163236

BOOKMARK THREAD[] ( 4 ) (LC 28/510p) Analysts Say Solar is Saving Texans From Widespread Power Outages Amid Extreme Heat --
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=1127163231

BOOKMARK THREAD[] ( 6 ) (LC 28/510p) Ni;ckB79 - BHP says battery electric cheaper than hydrogen as it dumps diesel for haul trucks (says 80% of the renewable energy used to create the hydrogen is lost by the time it got to moving the wheels of the truck -- Which means 4-5 times more wind and solar that needs to be created to travel the same distance as an electric truck and 4-5 times more cost. -- https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=1127163243

Th;ink. Again calls out NN;ADs for lying about hydrogen, 6/23/23 -- https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127163205#post3

[BigmanPigman]

4. Oops, I read the chart wrong.

Maybe I assumed it was correct since the price of food has increased at my supermarket a lot in the past 4 months on almost everything. The chart says that only lettuce has increased a lot while eggs decreased. I wonder why the prices where I live are going up so much on stuff like dairy, fish and seafood, chicken, and pretty much everything.

[progree]

5. No problem 😍 . A very busy chart with several hundred numbers at least

I lack some mental facility for noticing price increases, at least on food. I go over just about every grocery tab to see what things cost, but it just doesn't make much of an impression on me -- i don't notice the price increases, just some stick-out items like Tasters Choice French Roast $9.69 or something obscene like that, but it's always been obscene. And I know that buttermilk cost more than 2X as much as milk. But that's about all that sticks in my head.

Even though as a single I do ALL my food shopping.

I would never make a good political candidate because I'd never get that reporter question right on the cost of milk.

But I do know and get upset when they ring up Roma tomatoes as some more expensive variety, like vine-on tomatoes. There's no freaking vines on the Roma tomatoes. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[tirebiter]

3. Get a majority Dem senate and cost controls can be put back in place

You’re enjoying trump’s perfect health plan now

[Auggie]

6. And restore Federal subsidies. Trump had them cut.