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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:52:38 -0700
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On 7/18/2024 10:59 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
>> On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:52:49 -0500, Lynn McGuire
>> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/17/2024 10:42 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 19:47:12 -0600, John Savard
>>>> <quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:
>>>> =20
>>>>> On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:15:08 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
>>>>> Nicoll) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Celebrate the coldest summer of the rest of your life with some
>>>>>> frosty SF and fantasy novels!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://reactormag.com/five-sff-books-featuring-frigid-icy-worlds/
>>>>>
>>>>> I could comment that your posting is itself a dystopian SF story,
>>>>> about a world where giant oil companies have managed to control the
>>>>> political system and hypnotize the populace so as to prevent any
>>>>> effective response to global warming...
>>>>>
>>>>> if it weren't for the fact that it seems like calling that scenario
>>>>> "fiction" has already proven to be over-optimistic.
>>>> =20
>>>> One of the two theories I have seen on why the Texas electrical system
>>>> died again (if that actually happened; Bing seems to know nothing
>>>> about it, being fascinated by the event in 2021) is, indeed, that the
>>>> State of Texas, having funds that could have been used to fix the
>>>> problem, chose instead to shovel it into the pockets of the Oil
>>>> Industry. Typical Republican behavior.
>>> ...
>>>
>>> I do not know of any Texas state funds being used for the State Crude=20
>>> Oil and Natural Gas industry.  On the contrary, they are the number one=20
>>> tax payer in the state, the state universities are 100% funded by oil=20
>>> and gas revenues, google Texas Permanent University Fund.
>>>
>>> Please specify the exact amount of funds being paid from the State of=20
>>> Texas to the Crude Oil and Natural Gas industries.
>>
>> That is a theory I read. As I noted, it is clearly biased.
> 
> On the other hand, there are other methods of state support
> that don't directly result in 'funds being paid from the State';
> such as tax breaks.
> 
>    'Spring, 1990, Senator Don Henderson [...] urged his
>     fellow state senators to give the oil patch some more
>     love.  The Houston Republican, a lawyer closely allied
>     with the fossil-fuel industry, had introduced a bill to
>     slash the tax on natural gas wells deemed particularly
>     tough to develop. "They can be huuuuuuge wells," he
>     told the finance committee.'
> 
>    'If these wells were so alluring, why did taxpayers
>     need to offer Texas drillers a handout? Because, Henderson
>     explained, the wells were "expensive and chancy." 

Also so much for the definition of "alluring".  "Expensive" and "chancy" 
are not alluring words to hydrocarbon production.

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dirty old man.