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I tried that and my comment was held for moderation. Still not up.
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The courts saw all the evidence in the Bundy case. They found that the government's behavior was so egregious that they dismissed the case with prejudice. That's a lot more than a few procedural "problems with the prosecution". You might find it enlightening to read the verdict.
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Yes, there were "problems with the prosecution", but they didn't start there. The government brought an army of snipers to a cattle round-up at the Bundy ranch. The patriots I admire noticed similarities to the lead-ups to Ruby Ridge & Waco and moved to prevent it. Successfully. Without firing a shot. Now THAT's some modern-day well-regulated militia action. The courts threw the cases out because the government overstepped their bounds at every turn from the very beginning.
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So I plan to head over to Bass Pro this weekend and pick up one of the new Savage Arms MSR15 models, maybe counter some of the negative press both companies have been getting lately for not kowtowing to people who just don't get firearms and don't realize that their efforts, though well-intentioned, would probably be better spent working to make swimming pools safer for children, for instance. (Or maybe keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of mentally unstable government agents - Got a plan for that?)
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But it doesn't quite seem fair to criticize the reference case, piece of junk that it may be, for anticipating greater demand for gas than is inferred by recognizing that demand for electricity is currently trending flat (only for the last few years, having leveled off after a longer downward trend) and also for anticipating greater demand for petroleum than is inferred by recognizing an electric vehicle revolution just getting underway. If we take the EV revolution - which seems to account for much of the leveling in electric trend and quite litkely to push it dramatically upward over the coming decades - into account in both scenarios, I agree that the Petro projections seem far too high, but something is going to meet the increased demand for electricity that replaces it.
Can solar and wind can pick up all the slack in real time? I sure hope so. Gas may be cleaner than coal, but it's commonly extracted by fracking which certainly isn't eco-friendly. From 2000 to 2010, I regularly traveled to Lincoln, NE on quarterly business trips. You see a lot of trains on that drive, mostly very long coal trains. Lincoln seems to be some sort of coal train hub. As the years passed I noticed that the coal trains seemed to be not quite so long, and there appeared, occasionally at first but more and more by the end of the decade, flatbed cars (and semis on the highway) carrying huge windmill blades. I'm encouraged by that and can only imagine how it's trended since.