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by Mendenhall 3345 days ago
As rhetoric I would compare it more with "I will be giving everyone free balloons all day while supplies last!" and the supply is one balloon. Sounds great but reality is vastly different.

Again though I dont expect everyone to see the rhetoric I see.
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Dylan16807 3345 days ago
One balloon? Maybe if renewables exploded after half an hour.

The solar-power equivalent would be a balloon every few minutes every weekday, but they run on a strange calendar and you can't predict when weekends happen.

I just don't see how a supply that's unpredictable on a short-term basis, but very predictable on a long-term basis, disqualifies it from being "free".

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ska 3345 days ago 

   Again though I dont expect everyone to see the rhetoric I see.
When you get to this point, it's a good time to ask yourself if you are tilting at windmills, in my experience.
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