What Really Bugs the Qpublican Party?

The uproar from Qpublicans is that Dark Brandon is an octogenarian... Nonsense. There are multiple Qpublican octogenarians in the US Congress (e.g., Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley, John Carter, etc...) and in state legislatures 'round the nation.

So, what really scares Qpublicans?

The terror of the Biden administration, for Qpublicans, is the octogenarian's Vice President: Afro-Asian, American, Woman, Kamala Harris!

After over a century of insecure, white people building monuments to Confederate traitors, all of the right, wing nuts came out from under their rocks en masse when Americans elected an African American Man to be the President of the United States; for two terms.

To have another person of color in the White House would represent the minority-majority that the USA is becoming; much to the horror of the insecure, white people who are the most right, wing nut majority of the Qpublican party.

Minority-majority, that will happen in the USA by the middle of this century, is when white people become the largest minority of the US population, and all other, non white, Americans congregate to become the majority of the people in these United States.

Why do you think Qpublican lawmakers, all across the nation, want, white, Women to carry all pregnancies, including those resulting from rape and incest, to term?

The preventative measure, for the good people of the USA, is to register and vote for Democrats up and down every ballot; in every election.

Democrats are not the perfect party, but, in the predicament we now finds ourselves, they are the only solution.

Some of the Irresponsible Activity That Stalled Progress Against Climate Change

Progress on climate change has stalled on multiple fronts, for example:

1. The Carter administration put solar panels on the White House, then the following, Reagan, administration removed them.

2. In the late 1970s Mobil Oil bought Tyco Laboratories, a company that produced solar panels, and did little, to nothing, with the company... shut it down 19 years later.

A total of 50 years have passed and this activity from the Oil and Gas industry cartel, combined with the activity of it's Republican lackeys, have assured that we have made incredibly minimal progress in the battle against Global Climate Change.

Now is the time to accelerate efforts, because we've lost too much time to the Hydrocarbon industries, and their lackeys, that have (continue to) put profit, kick backs, far above responsible behavior.

Unfortunately, one must imagine how much better we would be doing against Climate Change without the aforementioned, probably criminal, irresponsible activity.

RFI to the EPA About Reducing Carbon Footprints at the Nation's Ports...

There are multiple steps, that may be phased in, or adopted simultaneously, to attain zero or, more likely, near-zero emissions at any, or all, ports:

1. Adoption of battery electric vehicles (BEV), class 6 & 7 trucks, that are powered via battery packs behind the cab, and/or under the cargo box, create zero emission vehicles (ZEV). An electric motor mounted in close proximity to the drive axle makes the space, normally used to accommodate a drive shaft, available for batteries. Some, to all, of the cargo boxes can have solar panels on the roof to provide some battery charging capacity.

2. Adoption of Full Series Hybrid Electric Vehicle (FSHEV) technology can be used for class 8 trucks that are available for use 24/7. This type of vehicle will include an internal combustion engine (ICE) to generate electricity; charge the battery. The vehicle need not have external connection to recharge batteries, but can have attachment to provide vehicle to grid (V2G) electricity.

3. Internal combustion engines, used in FSHEV or larger, centralized electricity generation capacity, not powered by sun or wind, can be powered by: gasoline, propane or natural gas; diesel is obviated.

4. Cargo containers can also have solar panels on, or as, their roofs.

5. Train cars can use regenerative braking to assist in generating electricity for moving containers around the port. Containers can have electric motors connected to each axle, for said regenerative braking, and for assisting in the movement of the cars around the port facilities. Batteries can be mounted under the cargo container, and electrical connections can be made available to import or export electricity.

Everything needed to build the aforementioned vehicles, except batteries and solar panels, are currently produced in the USA. The ports will operate most efficiently if they are equipped with their own ability to generate electricity for it's own operation; not reliant on the local/regional electric grid.

Production of the equipment referred to above is capable of being done via modest modification of existing manufacturing infrastructure... The main problem that will be encountered is the lack of desire of existing companies to swim against the tides and currents originating in the efforts of players within the oil and gas cartel of companies.

Performance and efficiency of electric vehicles is being demonstrated by existing battery electric vehicles (BEV) now in service. Operating efficiency is largely generated by the reduction in moving parts in an electric drive train, and the reduction of energy lost to wasted heat.

All the pieces are current technology that's readily available, and only the aforementioned will within industry participants is lacking... The EPA's ability to motivate the movement to efficiency will determine the success, or lack thereof, in creating far cleaner, greener, port operations.

Transportation Reducing It's Carbon Footprint...

In order to bring all the truck and train transportation capacity o'er to renewable energy operations one needs to use intermediate steps, because there is not, nor will there soon be, sufficient renewably generated electricity; nor will there soon be infrastructure to get that electricity from where it is generated to where it will be put to use.

The first, already available, solution is FSHEV technology. Everywhere there are FSHEVs (Full Series Hybrid Electric Vehicles) there is V2G (Vehicle to Grid) electricity generation capacity available! This would come in handy not just in a war zone, like Ukraine, it would help in areas where natural disaster, or terrorist(s), have recently disabled electricity provision.

FSHEV technology has been around for decades... A list of companies, and their vehicles, that have already demonstrated the feasibility of FSHEVs are in the next paragraph. The company efforts referred to are the work of industry insiders who've already invested billions in developing and building military, civilian and commercial vehicles. 

What's already been done, by and for: Nissan's Note E-Power; DARPA/ONR: General Dynamics Land Systems' RST-V (a.k.a., Shadow) and Georgia Tech Research Institute's Ultra AP; Lotus' Evora 414E; BAE's proposed upgrade to the Bradley Fighting Vehicle; etc...

This has created progress towards significantly increased fuel economy; less associated Green House Gas (GHG) emissions; obviate diesel fuel; less Lithium, because onboard electricity generation means smaller battery capacity is needed; fewer, to no, Rare Earth metals required by electromagnetic systems; etc...  The application of this technology is being stopped by hugely wealthy and powerful oil and gas industry players who care much more about increased profits than responsible behavior requisite to limiting global climate change.

Even more modest intermediate steps use older technology like: replacing the accessories belt with an electric motor/generator (EM/G), and batteries, to power electric accessories; moderated supercharging to allow the use of smaller displacement internal combustion engines (ICE); combining the aforementioned to require an even smaller ICE...

In short, holding current vehicle manufacturers and oil industry insiders' feet to the fire (by using existing, readily available, solutions) is the most important way to bring the world closer to taming the effects of transportation on Climate Change...

Also, reducing the need for oil and gas to be extracted to produce products for which demand has been significantly reduced.