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Why am I paying this amount?

Why am I paying this amount?

Well, here I am at the age of 66 (and a half), and I’ve recently realized that I’m going to have to keep working until I drop if I want to continue living the lifestyle to which I’ve become accustomed. Not rich by any means, but I’ve lived “without,” and I can honestly say that living “with” is better, and I’d like to keep it that way.

A local veggie pizza costs $30?
A local veggie pizza costs $30?

A local veggie pizza costs $30?

Recently, I was thinking of how screwed up America’s fiscal policy has been over the past 45 years or so when I ordered a pizza the other night from one of the smaller chains. I don’t eat pizza a lot. Maybe six to eight times a year. Now, I don’t even put salty pepperoni on top, or order a supreme. I just order a veggie pizza, no olives, double mushrooms, extra cheese. Easy peasy.

The Fight for Energy

The Fight for Energy

China desperately wants more carbon-based energy. It has built islands in the South China Sea primarily to bolster its claim on underwater oil deposits. It is also drilling on its own land like mad and has the goal of shortly becoming energy self-sufficient. It wants to follow Donald Trump’s lead in that respect. Meanwhile, it continues to import vast quantities of coal (when its not refusing coal barges from Australia to protest the Aussies’ call for openness about the source of the CCP virus).

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