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See Saw Congress (Unsteady, careen, lurch)
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock PROBLEM Over the past roughly 10-25 years, our U.S. Congress has evolved into a bipolar entity,...
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Aug 23, 20223 min read

Dysfunctional Congress: What to Do?
Tom Mast, founder of Solve American Gridlock Let’s lay the groundwork for more than two parties to flourish in America – as they do in...
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Jul 19, 20221 min read

Energy and Food Production
Tom Mast – Founder of Solve American Gridlock Reference: How the World Really Works, by Vaclav Smil The purpose of this article is to...
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Jul 7, 20223 min read

Economists’ Statement on Carbon Dividends – and Moreper the WSJ two years ago
https://www.econstatement.org/ The Statement can be read at the link above in five minutes. It lays out beautifully and quite succinctly...
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Jul 2, 20221 min read


An Opportune Break! The West Virginia v. EPA Decision
The Supreme Court in West Virginia et al v. EPA et al ruled June 30 that the case is a “major questions case”, meaning that Congress must...
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Jul 1, 20223 min read

Animosity and Discord In Congress
It is only to be expected that competition will exist among people who are intelligent and ambitious. But, when relationships...
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Jun 30, 20222 min read

Progress?
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock We are on our steamship in the mid-Pacific, badly needing to make port to replenish our fuel...
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Jun 28, 20221 min read

Confidence in Congress
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock #congress #gerrymandering I don’t suppose the data above are very surprising to most of you,...
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Jun 25, 20221 min read

Small Modular Reactors (SMR)
Nuclear energy has not been given the attention it deserves in the Climate Change fight! It doesn’t produce greenhouse gases, is not...
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Jun 18, 20222 min read

Beyond Magical Thinking: Time to Get Real on Climate Change
Vaclav Smil Yale Environment 360, 5/19/22 Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock The article referenced above was adapted by Yale from...
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Jun 14, 20222 min read

Dysfunctional Congress
Solve American Gridlock Tom Mast – Founder Our Dysfunctional Congress is one of the two topics Solve American Gridlock is addressing, and...
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Jun 11, 20221 min read

Letter to API and Oil Companies
Below is a copy of a letter from Solve American Gridlock LLC to the WSJ, the American Petroleum Institute, and several oil companies. I...
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Jun 8, 20222 min read

Tale of Two Parties
Political parties have existed in America almost since its inception. They are basic to the operation of a democratic government and are...
Tom Mast
Jun 6, 20222 min read

BLUEPRINT – Advantages
The primary advantage of having a Blueprint is that it will guide the world to controlling global warming at a level and a price that are...
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Jun 1, 20221 min read

Multi-Member Districts
The United States has not always had single-member districts with their Gerrymandering and Safe Seat issues; prior to 1967, the House...
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May 30, 20222 min read

Mission and the Task Going Forward
Our raison d'etre is: to alert Americans to the dangers of some crucial problems, provide understanding of their fundamental causes,...
Tom Mast
May 25, 20222 min read

IMAGINE!
Let’s just imagine that we have – right now – a US House of Representatives populated by members from, say, four effective parties, an...
Tom Mast
May 23, 20222 min read

THE “SOLVE AMERICAN GRIDLOCK LLC” APPROACH
“…Benjamin Franklin, who, on leaving the constitutional convention of 1787, supposedly told a curious passerby that the Framers had...
Tom Mast
May 10, 20222 min read

Must We Accept Permanent Gridlock in our Congress?
Congress is not doing its job at all well, and a root cause is its division into two diametrically opposed and essentially equal-sized...
Tom Mast
May 6, 20221 min read

BLUEPRINT - Global Warming Mitigation
An incredible amount of information and data is presently known about the effects of greenhouse gas emissions in our world, when and how...
Tom Mast
May 3, 20221 min read
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