re: Lisa Murkowski Suddenly Realizes She Got Played on Trump Budget Bill

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Well, you said you were lazy. I guess this proves it.

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I said it’s been a busy summer and I don’t have the energy to play professor Billjamin today. I’ve already put enough info ITT to steer you in a better direction than you’re currently in. You just don’t understand this well enough to put that info to good use. And I’m content to let you remain ignorant because you wouldn’t listen anyway.

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Three posts, all contentless ad hominem attacks. Pitiful!

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Go back and address my previous points. Then we can move forward.

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What previous points? There have been three posts and none have any content.

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The ones I posted earlier ITT.

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100%

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She’s not pissed that they got rid of them. She’s pissed because they broke a deal she had to let the current planned projects go through. She’s smart enough to understand what that’s going to do to investment across the energy sector.

Nuclear, natural gas and coal. Problem solved.

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Not sure why nuclear would need subsidies
because it costs a frick ton

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It would be relatively cheap if not for the absurd government regulations. When small scale nuclear technology matures it will not require nearly the level of regulation because the reactors will be inherently “safe”. I think it has a good future, and either small nuclear reactors or solar with adequate batteries will eventually drive our grid - maybe both. But for the next 20 or 30 years it will be hydrocarbons.

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I saw no points you made in this thread that I didn’t address. The main point of contention is you claiming military expenses as subsidizing oil and gas, which is ridiculous, and I addressed that earlier ITT. We keep major trading lanes open regardless if oil and gas are being shipped through them.

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Just because you don’t want to believe it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. And feel free to put whatever dollar value you want on eminent domain. It’s incalculable.

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No it would not. You should really look at a financial model for each of your favorite generation types to get a sense of what’s involved. Nuclear O&M is high as frick. And the capital commitment is monstrous. The regulator bogie man is the first way I know someone has zero clue what they’re talking about.

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The reason O&M is so damn high is because of the regulations. My best friend is a PM for Entergy and worked several years in nuclear. He had to escape because the regulations were so stifling. He works in transmission now and thinks it’s a dream. But transmission is hell on earth compared to working oil and gas projects, which I promise I have more experience in than you do. He is in a high regulation environment with a stifling bureaucracy compared to oil and gas, yet it is a dream compared to nuclear.

I haven’t looked at the financial model for EACH generation type, but companies I own in partnerships have developed and sold utility scale solar, developed and sold CO2 sequestration reservoirs, performed O&M on onshore wind turbines, and designed and built oil and gas production facilities all over the world. I have had Board level control of all of that. I’m at least a little north of “zero clue”.

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Sounds like your a PE bro

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You are = you’re. And no, I’m not P.E.

I sat across the table from private equity groups about a dozen and a half times, and I’m interviewing some now to decide with whom to invest. My experience with them does not jibe with your Hollywood take. I find them to be among the sharpest folks I’ve ever known. They taught me different ways of understanding businesses that I had decades of experience running. I have mad respect for those guys.

I have met a few who seemed sleazy, but they were the minority.