Re: Tariffs and bikes

On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:20:48 -0400, zen cycle
<funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:

On 4/11/2025 6:56 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 4/11/2025 2:49 PM, Shadow wrote:

On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:43:43 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:
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Vegetable farmers in California have been driven into bankruptcy by
the Democrat administration quite a few who had been growing
vegetablkes for generations committed suicide when Gavin Loathsome
cut off their water.

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    LOL
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    Can I quote you on that? PS I'll need sources so I don't look
like a fool.
    Sources pls.
    []'s

 
As with many comments from Mr Kunich there is actually a truth in there.
Someplace.
 
Over 50 years ago, long before the present Governor, nuisance lawsuits
stopped construction of TVA Tellico Dam, which was the beginning of the
end for sane water management.
 
https://www.tva.com/about-tva/our-history/built-for-the-people/telling-
the-story-of-tellico-it-s-complicated
 
and although that project was in fact completed eventually, the larger
issues (humans vs baitfish) festered:
 
https://www.ocregister.com/2014/03/22/tom-campbell-how-to-get-water-
flowing-again-in-california/
 
with one smaller-than-bait-fish after another invoking precedent (snail
darter, delta smelt, whatever), water management became focused away
from human nourishment.
 
Starting 20? 25? odd years ago, the powers that be (EPA, CalEPA, etc)
decided that fresh water running into San Francisco Bay was absolutely
critical to the survival of the delta smelt and blocking water projects
or removing dams was not sufficient for the small fish. Having made that
a priority, water rights tied to deeds in the Central Valley, which was
highly productive land for dense vegetable farming, were abrogated.
Farms which had used sluice gates to irrigate for nearly a hundred years
were cut off. That's been a rolling crisis for years and is recently
exacerbated by new limits on pumping groundwater. Farmers cannot pump
water on their own land!
 
Ag production has been devastated, unemployment and land values have
gone in different directions and, despite ample rainfall in 2023 and
again in 2024:
 
https://engaging-data.com/california-precipitation-levels/
 
the water goes right past Mr Kunich's house into the Bay.

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Well, that's one distorted opinion. Here's another:
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https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2023/02/01/california-water-crisis/
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"Almond empires, alfalfa exporters, mega-dairies, and oil and gas
operators use millions of gallons of California’s limited water during
times of intense dryness to amass tremendous profits, while local wells
run dry. And as these private interests guzzle down the water supply,
more than 1 million people in California do not have access to safe
drinking water."

Well, obvious that reference is not correct as they mention "climate
change" and I've read right here that there ain't no such thing... so
they must be wrong.
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Cheers,

John B.