Houston Urbanist, Energy Specialist
Houston, Tx
Joined September 2010
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Austin retweeted
"What do I owe society?", asked the guy in the green.
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?”
Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
politico.com/news/magazine/2…
Austin retweeted
He says the name just fine when he’s begging the Qataris for a personal jet or the Saudis for funding for his son-in-law’s private equity firm.
Wonder what’s changed?
Austin retweeted
For example, the oil and gas industry thrived under Obama. Production and profits up, drilling up, exports approved, etc. The clean power plan was a gut punch to coal and a gift for natural gas. But the O&G industry hated Obama with a passion.
Austin retweeted
What can you even say to this shit? This is the president of the United states.
It's just so incredibly depressing that this has all been completely normalized.
Austin retweeted
Incredible corruption
The country is being looted by a mafia
BREAKING: Companies whose federal cases were dropped under Trump have given or pledged $210.5 million to his super PACs, per a new Public Citizen report.
Crypto,com: $37 million, after the SEC dropped an investigation
Gemini: $20 million, plus $10 million each from founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, after the SEC closed a similar probe
Andreessen Horowitz founders: $12 million, with nine portfolio companies tied to canceled federal actions
Public Citizen says more than 200 companies have benefited from canceled, frozen or weakened federal enforcement.
Austin retweeted
Everyone is dunking on the Dallas Stars for this and don’t get me wrong I hate the Stars with the fire of a thousand suns.
But I’ve been to Plano Texas and not to be rude but those kids were never going to learn to read.
Plano public schools plan to contribute $250M in tax revenue to the Dallas Stars' future billion-dollar arena.
The funds would come from recapture, which is money property-rich school districts give back to the state to be distributed to poorer schools.
Austin retweeted
It’s important that we all remember that every terrible change that’s been made to college football in the last 20 years is a direct result of the Longhorn Network and the University of Texas.
Austin retweeted
"You wouldn't know it if you live in the USA or consume US media...but the fight between EVs and ICEs is basically over. Internal combustion is on it's way out. First it'll look slow, then fast. Fleet turnover will lag sales. But ALL the growth globally is in EVs." -@JesseJenkins
NEW | EV Adoption is booming around the world
The Hormuz crisis once again revealed the risks of an energy system reliant on fossil fuels and countries are taking notice.
Growing EV fleets have saved oil importers more than $20 billion since the start of the war.
Austin retweeted
“Our outdated building codes don’t allow for single-stair housing which is smaller apartment complexes, condos, it’s a great entry point for home ownership.
I worked with Republicans across the aisle. We repealed that outdated regulation.” @jamestalarico
Austin retweeted
Totally insane levels of corruption and abuse of power are swirling all around us and my sense is that as angry as voters are about the cost of living they mostly are so awash in cynicism about politics that they don’t understand how egregious Trump is.
Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate-- then were told to lay off. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Austin retweeted
US-owned steel plant with a plant in Middletown OH begins mass layoffs amid Trump tariffs:
In a memo sent by Cleveland-Cliffs to workers, the company explicitly linked the move to Trump's steel tariffs on Canada, which it said had "significantly shrunk the market" for its products.
yahoo.com/news/us/articles/u…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Cleveland-Cliffs' layoffs (up to 500 workers) are at its Stelco plant in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, due to US tariffs on Canadian steel imports. Its Middletown, Ohio plant has no such layoffs and is receiving a $1B upgrade investment.
newsweek.com/us-owned-canad…
manufacturingdive.com/news/cleveland…
Austin retweeted
It will be very interesting (as I’ve long said) to see how much of the anger Americans have directed at each other was deliberately stoked by those foreign entities who wish us harm. If so, we fell for it hook, line and sinker. Playing into the hands of our adversaries.
Austin retweeted
The Biden admin fully ended any sort of theory of mind that there's a direct relationship between doing good/popular stuff and approval from voters. That's no longer the case.
The Biden admin did a whole host of things voters claimed to want (and that polled incredibly well) and nobody gave a shit.
Austin retweeted
Public executions. Net energy exporter. Gilded palaces. Humiliation at the hands of the Houthis. We've finally done it. We're Saudi Arabia.
Hegseth says execution of Fort Hood shooter to be public justthenews.com/node/192393?…
Austin retweeted
The biggest pro-Palestine protest during Trump's 2nd term, where Trump has been strongly pro-Israel the entire time and even threw America into a war on Netanyahu's behalf, was directed against the DSA mayor of NYC. I can't find the words to express how stupid this all is.
