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Bill Gates made big investments in nuclear power (TerraPower), which are now losers, because fracking makes the competition cheaper (oil and gas). His solution seems to be to lobby for a carbon tax to rig the game.

I guess that he is working it now to try push something during the upcoming Global Warming talks in Paris, and before Obama leaves office. Maybe he will offer big campaign contributions for the 2016 election, if he sees policy he supports.

1 posted on 11/01/2015 6:39:50 PM PST by BeauBo
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Bill Gates wants Socialism like in China to save the Planet ,all those pictures of Smog in China is just dirty lenses


2 posted on 11/01/2015 6:41:31 PM PST by butlerweave
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FUBG


3 posted on 11/01/2015 6:42:49 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (FreeRepublic needs your financial support.)
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When it comes to economics he’s an absolute idiot.


4 posted on 11/01/2015 6:43:44 PM PST by Williams (Dear God, please save us from the Democrats. And the Republicans.)
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We Need an Energy Miracle’.... Bill Gates

Hey Bill...Bill baby...just prey that the Sun starts making a good crop of sunspots...

Otherwise a Global Cooling event ...(thats an Ice Age for those in Rio Linda)....will occur.

5 posted on 11/01/2015 6:44:05 PM PST by spokeshave (MDSM = Mentally Discombobulated Screaming Media)
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Because I think something is a great idea, everyone should be forced to support my idea.


6 posted on 11/01/2015 6:44:28 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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Bill Gates is a greedy lazy bastard who would rather rip off the gov’t a la solar rather than risk his own money.


8 posted on 11/01/2015 6:46:30 PM PST by GilGil
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I suggest a 99.9% asset tax on software and media billionaires to finance this energy “miracle”. They’ll still be plenty rich, and they’ll help achieve their selfless goal of Saving The Planet. Considering his altruism, let’s start with Bill, and work down.


9 posted on 11/01/2015 6:46:37 PM PST by rightwingcrazy
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Maybe there should be a technology tax because without it Microsoft lacks the incentive to do anything except steal other people’s concepts.


11 posted on 11/01/2015 6:47:43 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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Bill, here’s a start; sell your 20,000 square-foot mansion and live like the rest of us. Then we can talk.


12 posted on 11/01/2015 6:48:02 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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For a bright fellow Bill, you’re sadly uninformed about economics and climate change.


13 posted on 11/01/2015 6:48:42 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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I just Binged ,Atmosphere of Earth and Carbon dioxide only 0.0397 % ,it’s almost nothing


15 posted on 11/01/2015 6:49:24 PM PST by butlerweave
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How about standardized nuclear reactors and recycled fuel rods?


16 posted on 11/01/2015 6:49:36 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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Without a substantial carbon tax the government won’t have as much money to fritter away to no good end.

I’ve got a much better idea: we should tar and feather everyone who promotes carbon taxes.

Hot tar would be okay....


18 posted on 11/01/2015 6:53:21 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Nonsense. This guy who made billions on the free market has succumbed to the “liberal syndrome”—they only go liberal after thay have made their money. Ask the current CEO of Microsoft if he agrees with this foolish turncoat. Answer: no. Read this you stupid turncoat, it is free: http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource/

Lastly, if you think socialism is the final solution, why not give us a final accounting on how all your largess in giving money away has worked, actually increased wealth and prosperity. I am still wondering why these billionaires do this. I can only surmise that they have no cares and are blind, have no faith in Chriastinity, or both.

21 posted on 11/01/2015 7:01:17 PM PST by Fungi
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Gates is simply a crooked, but clever businessman.
His software sucked.
His knowledge if physics is right there with Al Gore.

He is a rich science clown...period.


22 posted on 11/01/2015 7:03:09 PM PST by Da Coyote
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Proof once again that rich guys can be as dumb as a bag of bricks.

The fact that we have an energy problem today is solely due to the government’s interference with the free market. Left alone we would be awash in energy from coal nuclear and hydroelectric.

Typically after the government’s meddling has taken something totally into the sewer, the idiots come out of the woodwork promoting what? That the government get involved!

Asshat - the government IS involved. They CREATED this FUBAR situation. How can the answer possibly be more government involvement?

Bill Gates; economic moron.


24 posted on 11/01/2015 7:10:52 PM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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Hey Bill, pour some Brondo on it. It’s what plants crave.


27 posted on 11/01/2015 7:18:55 PM PST by TonyM
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It’s called fracking.


28 posted on 11/01/2015 7:19:09 PM PST by ully2
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Shut up Gates. You have yours. Let the middle class grow. We don’t need you .000001% know-it-alls making up rules for the rest of us to suffer through.


29 posted on 11/01/2015 7:21:13 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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One more horrible white liberal elite who wants to tell everyone else how to live.

Gates should have stayed with computers... something he knows something about.


30 posted on 11/01/2015 7:21:24 PM PST by GOPJ (Imagine if the GOPe fought Dems as hard as they fight Repubs. - freeper bray)
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