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Jeff Berner

@Pyth_of_Samos

Climatehawk. Democrat. Sounder Til I Die. Boeing Airplanes (retired). MIT alum. Progressive Christian. Cascadia Bio-region. Hike-Bike-Ski-Swim some.

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Jeff Berner
Jeff Berner@Pyth_of_Samos·
@Econ4Voters @bkheywood The easiest way to administer would be for car manufacturers to tell the state how much electricity each car used & location where charged. Auto manufacturers are already collecting this data, which should concern people because there is no constraint on how it is being used.
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R Alex Miller
R Alex Miller@Econ4Voters·
@Pyth_of_Samos @bkheywood I think we're mostly of like mind, we just diverge a bit on what's practical. To me taxing kW, even at the expense of having the tax applied at a home charger, feels less intrusive and less problematic than taxing miles driven
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Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon
Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon@bkheywood·
The race for greediest, most ignorant, and most authoritarian State Government seems to be afoot. CA puts forward another potentially winning hand. This has probably given WA State law makers a shiver of sweet dreams and aspirations. This November needs to be a referendum on the tone deaf elitist legislators in Olympia. Don’t move just yet. Stay with us and fight. Stay tuned….
Supervisor Jim Desmond@jim_desmond

California politicians just moved AB 1421 through the Assembly — a bill that orders the state to build a mileage tax system by 2027. Not "study." Not "explore." Implement. That means tracking every mile you drive — then taxing you for it. On top of gas taxes. On top of registration fees. On top of sales taxes. On top of local transportation taxes. This is a commuter punishment aimed straight at working families who drive to work, drive their kids to school, and drive to pick up groceries. Sound familiar? SANDAG tried this exact scheme right here in San Diego County. Residents found out. Commuters spoke up. Small businesses pushed back. They backed down. We stopped it once. We'll stop it again.

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Jeff Berner
Jeff Berner@Pyth_of_Samos·
@Econ4Voters @bkheywood My biggest beef with RUC/mileage fee is that it is a tax shift from pick-ups/SUVs to sedans & small cars. Likely regressive because lower income families are choosing to drive fuel efficient cars to begin with. A RUC tied to vehicle weight would solve that problem.
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R Alex Miller
R Alex Miller@Econ4Voters·
@Pyth_of_Samos @bkheywood Commercial charging stations should be no more complicate to tax than gas stations. For home charging, there are a wide variety of inexpensive, internet connected, home power monitor devices that should be easily adaptible to a home EV charging station.
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Jeff Berner
Jeff Berner@Pyth_of_Samos·
@Econ4Voters @bkheywood And how do you keep people from cheating and just bypassing the system entirely. I think that in the end you'd rely upon the data that the car sends back to the manufacturer, which puts you in the same place as a mileage charge.
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Jeff Berner
Jeff Berner@Pyth_of_Samos·
@Econ4Voters @bkheywood Most charging is done at home. Not all home chargers are internet connected. I have a dumb charger with my EVs that I purposely bought because it wasn't internet connected. No software to update. Most people can get by with charging using 110v outlets. Tough problem.
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Jeff Berner
Jeff Berner@Pyth_of_Samos·
@Econ4Voters @bkheywood Serious question. How would you implement it? Need to factor in tax efficiency and tax loss. Gas tax is very efficient tax with about 0.5% cost to administer. Road Usage Charge might be 5% cost to administer.
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R Alex Miller
R Alex Miller@Econ4Voters·
@bkheywood I'm baffled why they don't put a road use tax on electricity to charge electric vehicles.
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Jeff Berner
Jeff Berner@Pyth_of_Samos·
@bkheywood What are your thoughts about OReGo, the Pay by Mile Program in Oregon? EV drivers can choose either registration fees or pay-by-mile road use charge. I do think that Washington needs strong protections for personal information from tracking devices in cars. You should push that.
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Jeff Berner@Pyth_of_Samos·
@wideawake_media Ok Sherlock. What would the child workers do otherwise? Are there schools? If there was something else better to do I guarantee that the children would be doing it. Best way to solve this is to create regulated supply chains, not destroy demand.
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Wide Awake Media
Wide Awake Media@wideawake_media·
The shocking reality of Net Zero. An estimated 40,000 child workers—some as young as seven—toil long hours for minimal pay in the hazardous conditions of Congo's cobalt mines, extracting the cobalt necessary for electric car batteries and other products.
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Jeff Berner@Pyth_of_Samos·
@DoctorVive Don't blame the "rich minority". There is a lot of America whose livelihoods depend upon natural gas & oil. Entire towns like Ponca City OK and Houston would be ghost-towns once oil stops. It is an existential crisis to these cities and towns much as slavery was in 1860s.
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Jeff Berner
Jeff Berner@Pyth_of_Samos·
@Handre Partial credit. It isn't central planning. It is when you have an dictator in power. No one around the dictator will ever contradict what the dictator wants to see. You lose power and influence when that is the case. I'm afraid that we've got this in Trump. Only yes-men.
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Handre
Handre@Handre·
The corpse count speaks louder than any theory — Josef Stalin murdered between 6 and 20 million of his own people through deliberate famines, mass executions, and gulags that made Hitler look like an amateur. Yet somehow we still have economics professors teaching that central planning can work if we just find the right technocrats. Stalin's Holodomor in Ukraine stands as the perfect case study in socialist arithmetic. When Ukrainian peasants resisted collectivization, Stalin simply starved them into submission — confiscating grain, banning travel, and posting guards to prevent anyone from escaping the famine zones. Millions died eating grass and bark while Soviet grain exports continued flowing to Western markets. The kulaks — prosperous farmers guilty of the crime of success — were liquidated entirely as a class. And this wasn't some accident or deviation from true socialism. This was central planning working exactly as designed. When the state owns all property and controls all production, human beings become mere inputs in the grand equation. Stalin understood what modern progressives refuse to admit: you cannot remake human nature without breaking a few million eggs. The same academic establishment that clutches pearls over free market "inequality" continues treating Marx as serious economic theory rather than a blueprint for mass murder. They'll spend hours debating whether Keynes got the multiplier effect right while treating Stalin's body count as an unfortunate implementation detail rather than the inevitable result of abolishing private property.
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Jeff Berner@Pyth_of_Samos·
@Electroversenet I know people who know Lindzen. He is just a contrarian. If you say the sky is "blue", he'll say it isn't and that it is "white". Equally esteemed professors at MIT (Kerry Emanuel) say we're totally f#cked.
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Electroverse
Electroverse@Electroversenet·
MIT Professor Emeritus of Meteorology Dr. Richard Lindzen has spent decades inside the heart of the climate establishment. He helped write IPCC reports and he says the science is nothing like the apocalyptic headlines. Quote: "Even the IPCC, if you read Working Group I, the actual science section, doesn't support these doomsday claims." Lindzen says the scary narratives pushed by politicians and media are built on distortion, not data. And even inside the IPCC, many scientists know it.
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Wall Street Mav@WallStreetMav·
Now that the wealthy are trying to leave the state of Washington to avoid the 9.9% millionaires tax, the next step is to create roadblocks to make it more expensive to leave. Massive upgrades to your house required before you can sell your home.
Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok

WTF. Thurston County, WA, becomes first in the nation to pass an ordinance FORCING people to obtain a certain "home energy score" before they're allowed to sell their house. The goal? Reduce carbon emissions... These climate change cultists want to control your lives.

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Bjorn Lomborg
Bjorn Lomborg@BjornLomborg·
The cheap green lie You are told that solar and wind are cheap But you need near-100% backup when no sun or wind, paying for two systems Data for 2024 shows that cramming in more solar and wind makes electricity overall more and more costly iea.org/data-and-stati… Threads&refs: x.com/BjornLomborg/s…
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Jeff Berner@Pyth_of_Samos·
@is_OwenLewis What I learned from this book was that the world was VERY lucky that Borlaug was able to brute force the genetics when he did. Should we always count that we should be so lucky in the future?
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Owen Lewis
Owen Lewis@is_OwenLewis·
🧵 1/14: Just days after Paul Ehrlich (the man whose 1968 book “The Population Bomb” predicted billions would starve) passed away, it’s the perfect moment to celebrate the scientist who proved Ehrlich and other doomsayers spectacularly wrong. Meet Norman Borlaug, the Iowa farm boy who launched the Green Revolution and quite literally saved a billion lives. This is the ultimate story of human ingenuity triumphing over scarcity.
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Jeff Berner@Pyth_of_Samos·
@KYRRadio Oregon has this already. Not a big deal. See my score for the house I have in Portland. 👇Very useful to buyers to understand what their monthly utility bills are and what can be done affordably to lower them. Best time to make home energy improvements is when you move in.
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Zach Abraham
Zach Abraham@KYRRadio·
This is a statement of fact, not an insult. But if we want things to change we need to quit electing “nice” people that don’t have the intellect or experience to run a car wash. We have some of our worst and dimmest in public office. Nothing will change until that does
KOMO News@komonews

Thurston County on Tuesday signed off on an ordinance requiring people to obtain a Home Energy Score (HES) before listing a property for sale. The policy aims to encourage people in unincorporated parts of the county to make energy efficiency and energy costs transparent to residents and the real estate market, according to the county website. The measure will not take effect until one year after the vote. The Thurston County Commission approved a requirement that homeowners obtain a professional evaluation of their insulation, heating and cooling systems, water heating systems, and other features before putting a property on the market. Full story here: komonews.com/news/local/thu… #komo #komo4 #komonews #komo4news #seattle #washington #energy #homeownership #homeenergyscore #thurstoncounty

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Jeff Berner@Pyth_of_Samos·
@choeshow Oregon has this already. Really not a big deal. Very useful to home buyers to know what monthly house payments are & what can be done affordably to lower them. Sellers benefit too. In many cases the best time to make improvements to lower energy bills is when houses change hands.
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Jeff Berner@Pyth_of_Samos·
@TravisSCouture Oregon has this already. Not a big deal. Very useful to buyers to understand what their monthly house payments are and what can be done affordably to lower them. In many cases the best time to make improvements to lower energy bills is when houses are bought & sold.
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Jeff Berner@Pyth_of_Samos·
@libsoftiktok Oregon has this already. Not a big deal. Very useful to buyers to understand what their monthly house payments are and what can be done affordably to lower them. In many cases the best time to make improvements to lower energy bills is when houses are bought & sold.
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Libs of TikTok
Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok·
WTF. Thurston County, WA, becomes first in the nation to pass an ordinance FORCING people to obtain a certain "home energy score" before they're allowed to sell their house. The goal? Reduce carbon emissions... These climate change cultists want to control your lives.
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Jeff Berner@Pyth_of_Samos·
@bkheywood Might want to read the document before criticizing it. Majority of your points were fairly addressed in the exercise. Note also that there is bi-partisan support in the legislature on amending it. Like it or not, the document is guiding state policy. commerce.wa.gov/energy-policy/…
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