Mark Fitz

Fuel selling energy nerd with an interest in politics and other nerd stuff.

[Mark Fitz @MarkFitzOregon]

@angelafororegon With higher diesel prices off road fuel sees a CAT tax rising and compounding on farmers, steam/heat users, and a host of other needs. That 2% stacks up costs all over our economy. When prices rise it hammers down that inflation even more.

[Mark Fitz @MarkFitzOregon]

@cdstein71 @TheRealHondo99 @ViralNewsNYC @grok Probably guided vision quests. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle “meet Master Splinter” tours.

[Mark Fitz @MarkFitzOregon]

@TomKloza “Irrational Exuberance” is a totally different vibe if your quoting Alan Greenspan speak.

[Mark Fitz @MarkFitzOregon]

@TheRealHondo99 @ViralNewsNYC @grok I’m going to predict next level hipster tourism.

[Mark Fitz @MarkFitzOregon]

@PolicyProtest @Jeff_Eager If two facts are stacked together into an assumption. That’s your brand of X content. Didn’t say I checked any of them. But at a glance the irony of your criticism is not lost on me.

[Mark Fitz @MarkFitzOregon]

@LibertyPDX1 @Oregonian My concern is you don’t remove your nexus to the impact of the data centers YOU use in your daily life by moving them to a state with less regulation. You also don’t get any property tax benefits or employment from your obvious use of their services.

[Mark Fitz @MarkFitzOregon]

@LibertyPDX1 @Oregonian Finished how? If they aren’t built here, they are built in a place without CO2 regulations on emissions and we just export out data center use where we don’t have it contributing to state and local taxes.

[Mark Fitz @MarkFitzOregon]

@ChrisJBakke This is hilarious.

[Mark Fitz @MarkFitzOregon]

@SecretCFO This! Great explanation of what’s happening with west coast USA state governments. The risk of extracting versus delivering value.

[TBPN @tbpn]

.@ericries explains why former Costco CEO Jim Sinegal refused to raise the price of everything in the store by $.03, despite the fact that Costco knew it wouldn't decrease sales, and would increase their net income by 50%:

"He says, 'It's like the business equivalent of taking heroin. You do it once, and then you got to do it again, and again, and again. Next thing you know, you're not the low-price leader.'"

"You can get away with screwing people over. You always do it, no matter what. You raise margins. Margins are a source of strength."

"But Costco is built on a very different philosophy, which is that margins can be a source of weakness. @JeffBezos understood it. He used to always say, 'Your margin is my opportunity.'"

"When you're making too much money, when you are being too extractive, you're actually harming your competitive position in the long run."

[Mark Fitz @MarkFitzOregon]

@PolicyProtest @Jeff_Eager If you look at your own X thread of content. You aren’t exactly a bastion of credible information and non-conspiracy subjects.

[Mark Fitz @MarkFitzOregon]

@PolicyProtest @Jeff_Eager The use of the word “conspiracy” to dismiss factual evidence has become quite the fashion these days.

[Mark Fitz @MarkFitzOregon]

@Jeff_Eager Thank you for the work you do.

[Mark Fitz @MarkFitzOregon]

@jordan_pape It’s kind of crazy that a third don’t think high taxes impact why employers are leaving.

[Mark Fitz @MarkFitzOregon]

@RWalkerFW @MacStoddard Just to point it out.
This kind of post and the non-bot thread below. The nature of the tweets. Shows a big difference between Twitter and the bot free X.

[Mark Fitz @MarkFitzOregon]

@biofuelslaw They left out Japan has a E10 mandate coming.

[Mark Fitz @MarkFitzOregon]

@Jeff_Eager If the budget was truly balanced; the unfunded pension obligation would be in there. Just sayin. There is creative accounting in Oregon of the long term liabilities.

[Mark Fitz @MarkFitzOregon]

We have a sales tax with the CAT. Oregon has more than three legs to its stool. Also that analogy is stupid yet we keep seeing it.

Oregon isn’t credible to offer a replacement tax for another tax. Until it begins to reform its spending to focus on results it wouldn’t matter what tax or feee was swapped.

[Mark Fitz @MarkFitzOregon]

@alt_w_v_g Love this post

[Mark Fitz @MarkFitzOregon]

I was in my late teens when windows 3.1 and MS Office got deployed.

Back then everyone had a “secretary” to do their typing and other mundane tasks. A lot of non-working folks got washed out.

With easy word processors and spreadsheets in the early 90’s people had to do their own work. A lot of “secretaries” saw a huge jump in their marketability. A lot of non-working managers lost their jobs.

I see that future for AI. Those that work are that much more valuable with it. Those surfing it will have trouble finding work.