"... as if!!! says D/F

channeling on a soap box

turns out DF has many questions of T/F
and then some

(or TF - whichever)

Gives away information? TF has not discovered a true axiom of the world; there is no such thing as "free".

• How much of the "free" information that TF gives away is unavailable from other sources, gratis?
  
• Is there environmental waste in maintaining an office for people who give away free information available otherwise?

on water ...

• How much potable water is used making paper napkins, trucking them and disposing of them?
  
• Also, our potable water comes from a local source (unlike the SD potable water, which comes from environmentally unfriendly dams, canals, tunnels, structures, etc.).
  
• How many gallons of potable water are wasted in process and transport for every gallon of potable water that falls onto the irrigated, lush lawn of TF's?

on energy and water ...

• If TF was competent in energy analysis, he would not draw so much attention to his tankless DHW heater.
• Compare the net efficiency and environmental cost of a biodiesel fired, indirect, indoor water heater (well insulated) with the natural gas fired tankless unit (remember, natural gas does not just come out of a pipe in the ground).
  
• However since he works for a quasi-governmental agency that gives away information, we have reason to doubt his chops.

on vehicular options ...

• TF writes about his firm’s minivan powered by natural gas as if that doesn’t pollute (NOx, CO, CO2).
  
• Even leaving the effect of CO2 out of the picture (our current administration does not think it does, in fact, they are not willing to admit CO2 exists), a natural gas minivan is more of an R&D project than a real strike against environmental pain (natural gas has to be processed, transported and distributed and recompressed at the point of use).

on company pride ...

• My company makes more than one thing. My company makes a product AND we make profit. Making profit is American and all things good.
  
• Quasi-governmental information sharing is communist. If you read Atlas Shrugged, this form of employment must be eliminated.
  
• If you listen to the early 21 century business-talk, this function will be outsourced.
  
• Either way, TF needs to watch himself. The self-important name of TF’s company shows us their paper tiger-ness (think about when you hear “I don’t mean to be rude, but...”).

closing statement and name-calling (for now) ...

• Everything is a contest, unless you are a dirty-lefty-liberal, then winning does not matter (Atlas Shrugged tells us what this attitude will bring).
  
• By not acknowldeging the importance of competing, TF shows us he already lost
  (I suspect TF is a cut-and-run, tax-and-spend waffeler).

John Galt (pinch-writing for DF)*

*(being channeled by shirlsd)