Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!usenet.goja.nl.eu.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:52:38 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 68 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 02:52:36 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9b281a5e14b6cf93de85b6684bf17c08"; logging-data="2802833"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18+RiHs8pWeBS6ybsZfv4m0" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:JT581HtI5RSoFP1HhmugmvxJRrc= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4352 On 7/18/2024 10:59 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote: > Paul S Person writes: >> On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:52:49 -0500, Lynn McGuire >> wrote: >> >>> On 7/17/2024 10:42 AM, Paul S Person wrote: >>>> On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 19:47:12 -0600, John Savard >>>> 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. -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.