Jan 26
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We remember fondly Solyndra and the cohort of promising green companies extolled and funded by the Obama Administration on their way to bankruptcy. That was an rare accomplishment, actually showing that government money is deadly. But who would have had the chutzpah to predict that the man would be able to do it again so soon? [...]
Jan 25
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NAIVE PRESIDENT FAILS AGAIN AS BRAZIL SIGNS LUCRATIVE CONTRACT WITH CHINA Ah, the mighty Obamadollar. You know the currency of which I speak; our president throws it around with the reckless abandon of a drunken sailor. He uses it to polarize a nation. He does his Socialistic best to take it from those who have worked [...]
Jan 18
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Always a maverick in finding steady profits where the others lose money, Southwest is doing it again. Refusing to charge for baggage, the airline is making lemonade from American obesity by providing lighter, less padded seats in its cabins. See, since passengers now provide more padding of their own, the airline can provide less, saving weight. The frames [...]
Jan 6
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Noting how much money disappeared in the direction of government led to wondering what we’re getting for it. Unlike our governors, we have to earn our money; we can’t just point a jail at someone and demand it. A big item is military defense. Defense from who? A few Seals and drones have returned al-Qaeda to just [...]
Nov 12
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Government Motors is leading in provision of a new auto technology, followed by Toyota and others. This new development makes it unnecessary to provide a spare tire in current and future models, freeing up trunk space—and helping to meet new government gas mileage mandates by cutting weight. The new tech consists mostly of air, which is [...]
Oct 27
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The Obama Energy Department is really creating jobs; it just loaned a carmaker $529 million of taxpayer money so it can start building cars…in Finland. Car Company Gets $529 Loan; Builds Cars in Finland tells about it. That sort of targeting likely explains why the stimulus missed and maybe accounts for some of the faith that [...]
Oct 14
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As all but Lefties expected, Government Motors has become the elephant that labored and brought forth a mouse…the vaunted green savior Chevy Volt, though fancied up, takes you no farther on a charge than an 1897 model electrc car. 115 Year Old Car Gets Same 40 Miles-Per-Charge as Chevy Volt gives you the details. We hear [...]
Oct 1
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The Administration is taking several oil companies to court over a few dead birds found in their ponds, a single small bird in one case. Windmill farms on the other hand, famously mow down hundreds of thousands attempting to migrate every year without a blink from the Feds though many are protected species. Oil Companies Prosecuted for [...]
Sep 29
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Folks, we have just scored a journalistic coup here at AWOL Civilization, the kind of break that most freelancers and news organizations just dream about. I have completed an exclusive interview with Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison. Brian may have refused to utter a single word to the Congressional committee investigating the $500 million that evaporated [...]
Sep 17
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PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT, SUPPRESSED INFORMATION COULD SPELL DOOM FOR THE REGIME Barack Obama needs the Solyndra scandal like he needs a wild drunken weekend on the town with Bill Ayres, Jeremiah Wright, and that rapper-dude he invited to the White House who dreams of killing cops and abusing women. What else could go wrong for the [...]
“Free Wood Program Halted” was the Albuquerque Journal’s notice that New Mexico no longer allowed citizens to cut free firewood on state grazing leases. In the past, three such sites were open each Fall.
Why no more? Too expensive, said the State Land Commissioner; “we’ve been spending $75,000 a year administering the program.”
OMG!!! Any bureaucrat who can spend that much letting citizens cut free wood in three rural locations for three months a year ought to be up for: Creative Bureaucrat of the Year!
No wonder our government has gone broke “helping” us…
Sep 2
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Just as his Environmental Price Augmentation (EPA) folks were handing out a new energy cost boost regulation, our Prez shut them off in favor of more people working rather than less. An excellent move and one showing clearly his interest in reelection. Obama Halts EPA Regulation tells the details. While he deserves credit, not complaint for this, [...]
Aug 31
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RECEIVED $355 MILLION IN GOVERNMENT LOANS; WAS MAJOR DONOR TO OBAMA CAMPAIGN Solyndra, a San Francisco-based solar panel company that received a $535 million loan guarantee from the federal government has declared bankruptcy. Just last year, Captain Green Jobs touted the company as “leading the way” in the green jobs future he wets himself over – on [...]
Aug 23
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Just so we don’t forget: The U.S. has more oil than the Middle East! This Federal Government report paints the picture. It doesn’t get a lot of play since the Obamafolk and their greenie friends want to keep it where it is rather than let it out to power growth and thereby upset the greenie’s program. [...]
Aug 11
And now back to our regularly scheduled and pretty much justified paranoia…. The last week has been a whirlwind news-wise (are we sure it’s August?), what with the budget “deal” where no one got what they wanted other than the current Resident of the White House and the subsequent U.S. Government Securities/Bond notes downgrade to [...]
Aug 5
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As I perused the digests sent very conveniently to my email this morning, I came across yet another article from a strict constitutionalist with a list of tasks that should be accomplished to bring government spending in line. As usual with these sorts of articles, the idea of “selling all non-defense related government lands” was [...]
Jul 29
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I’ve been toying with a post on the whole budget/spending soap opera. Everyone else is doing it, why not join in, right? My angle was going to be defense spending and that so many of the cuts on the table are defense related rather than entitlements. See, in the sky-high view of things, defense [...]
Jul 16
Does anyone else remember when saving energy was Dad walking around the house turning off lights? Or waiting until the last possible day in June before caving in and turning on the AC? Or having a single window unit and mom and dad, all the kids and the dog sleeping in the same bedroom during [...]
The House Energy and Commerce Committee passed a bill last week which requires our “green” president to speed up his decision on approving a pipeline that would deliver Canadian oil to the United States – while the Chinese are investing in another pipeline that could send that same oil to China. The O-man foot-dragging? What a shock. Who knew?
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Jun 17
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Well, what do you know. In a 73-27 vote, the U.S. Senate voted to repeal ethanol subsidies, of all expenses. It’s doubtful that the Obummer White House will sign it, but, hey, ethanol is not so much of a sacred cow as it used to be it seems. Consider the irony of ethanol production: it [...]
Jun 6
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Three words. Two if you don’t count ‘em twice. But they’re pretty powerful. On each side, Left and Right, those words elicit emotion. On one, it brings to mind an independence. On an ability to depend on one’s self for the requisite needs. On the other, it brings to mind ugly environmental dangers, global warming [...]
Big Oil.
We love, LOVE, to hate Big Oil.
As we’re paying more and more at the pump, and as we continue to flounder in this post recession economy, it’s hard to look at the Big Oil companies , their profits and think anything other than greed.
But is that fair? Let’s check.
May 20
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Pre-1967 Borders for Israel? Why Our President is Dangerous. – I am dumbfounded. Pre 1967 border for Israel? Obama, in announcing a Middle peace plan which pushes Israel back to pre-1967 borders, clearly has no interest in calming the Middle East situation. He is like a mad king out of control- and we, the sorry subjects must watch [...]
May 19
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Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life: What You Can Do to Stop Them As I’ve suggested in the past, never wrestle with a pig; you both get dirty and the pig enjoys it. [...]
Apr 6
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That’s actually a quote from the article entitled “Wind farm efficiency queried by John Muir Trust study.” I think it makes a better title than the original, though. Executive summary: Wind farms are much less efficient than claimed, producing below 10% of capacity for more than a third of the time, according to a new [...]
Mar 14
Back when I was a kid, I joined the Navy. Testing indicated I was relatively bright for a volunteer, so they sent me off to Nuke school. It seemed that I was gonna be able to put together all that Trigonometry, Calculus, Chemistry, Physics and other crap I learned in High School to some kind [...]
McAfee Report: Chinese Hackers Attack Oil Companies
Several financial documents, bidding contracts and copied proprietary industrial processes were obtained by the hackers
McAfee Inc. announced that five multinational gas and oil companies and seven other unidentified companies have had their computer systems broken into by Chinese hackers, where sensitive information such as bidding plans have been stolen.
Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee’s vice president for threat research, named the attacks “Night Dragon” in McAfee’s report.
“It speaks to quite a sad state of our critical infrastructure security,” said Alperovitch. “These were not sophisticated attacks, yet they were very successful in achieving their goals.”
According to the article, one attack method was “infected e-mails sent to executives within the companies.” It sounds like they targeted the weakest links there. Apparently this has been going on for more than a year.
It really shocks me concerning the attitude of people when it comes too oil companies. I am not going to say that oil companies are the best thing since sliced bread; they have their issues like all corporations do. But why knock something that is providing a huge service to the world? I have heard many a person say that oil companies should stop drilling, leave the gulf, NIMBY, they are screwing up, not going by the regulations, etc. Sound familiar?
I can see why people say these things, but if they actually thought about it, they might not. Oil is like air, like water and the sun. We live it, breath it, use it, drive it, eat it….. and no one knows the better or wants to be the wiser concerning it.
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1943.
There was no Super Bowl. There was no BCS. There was no FIFA. There were no Civil Rights Acts. For that matter, there weren’t even 50 states. The world was at war. Israel didn’t exist. Everything ran on coal.
That was also the last time West Virginia elected a Republican Senator in a regular election.
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I have always heard that history repeats itself because no one listened the first time around, and today I have found additional evidence to support that claim. Scroll through some of the Time magazine covers, specifically from 1976-1980 and take a look at the headlines, the people, the concerns of the day. From socialism to the war on terror – it’s all there in vivid color. I recommend starting here and moving forward for a really interesting look at, well… Time.
In the early days of the 90′s I recall hearing one of those college touring indie groups. This one stuck with me a.) because they were from Australia, b.) because they had some of the funniest songs I had ever heard and c.) I was changed by their lyrics forever. Now thanks to the wonders of the internet, I have found them – and the song that has stuck in my head to this very day. Needless to say, these guys were WAY ahead of their time. For your consideration, and for your enlightenment I present the Scared Weird Little Guys. Please excuse the quality of the audio/video. Years of play on You-Tube and the 1,032 views must have eroded the quality of the media somewhat. Remember, YOU can make a difference.
Washington (CNN) — A rise in skepticism among Americans over global warming is mostly due to changes among Republicans, according to a new national poll.
Of course it has nothing to do with the British, the Russians, or the rest of the world catching a glimpse of those leaked documents.
More at the church of all that is news.
No it is not a conspiracy. What we have here is a dogmatic approach.
Alan – “What we have here is a failure to communicate!”
Well I can kinda see how choosing truth and science over team hope-n-change’s dogma could rankle.
Then the nerve of this tuff stuff!
In a surprisingly well done report CBS postulated…
The e-mail correspondence raises questions about political interference in what was supposed to be a independent review process inside a federal agency — and echoes criticisms of the EPA under the Bush administration, which was accused of suppressing a pro-climate change document.
That deserves a resounding “YA THINK?” The CBS article needs to be read in full. It has fun little tidbits like this…
“I was told for probably the first time in I don’t know how many years exactly what I was to work on,” said Carlin, a 38-year veteran of the EPA. “And it was not to work on climate change.” One e-mail orders him to update a grants database instead.
For its part, the EPA sent CBSNews.com an e-mailed statement saying: “Claims that this individual’s opinions were not considered or studied are entirely false. This Administration and this EPA Administrator are fully committed to openness, transparency and science-based decision making. These principles were reflected throughout the development of the proposed endangerment finding, a process in which a broad array of voices were heard and an inter-agency review was conducted.”
Carlin has an undergraduate degree in physics from CalTech and a PhD in economics from MIT. His Web site lists papers about the environment and public policy dating back to 1964, spanning topics from pollution control to environmentally-responsible energy pricing.
Didn’t somebody mention transparency?
Does anyone wanna buy a pig in a poke?
June 26 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama prodded lawmakers to approve a “historic” bill to limit greenhouse-gas emissions as part of intensifying lobbying efforts for a vote in the U.S. House that could come today.
…Obama, in his public comments, called the measure “absolutely critical” to ensure a clean-energy economy that would help the U.S. “be the nation that leads the 21st century global economy.” He also predicted “a close vote” on it.
June 26 (Bloomberg) — America’s biggest oil companies will probably cope with U.S. carbon legislation by closing fuel plants, cutting capital spending and increasing imports.
“It will lead to the opportunity for foreign sources to bring in transportation fuels at a lower cost, which will have an adverse impact to our industry, potential shutdown of refineries and investment and, ultimately, employment,”
AXcess News – Washington – President Barack Obama vowed to close tax loopholes on foreign investments Monday, even going so far as to threaten banks with action if they didn’t cooperate in identifying American foreign investments.
The Democratic administration of President Obama will pursue American businesses and individual taxpayers who use foreign loopholes in investing abroad to avoid paying federal income taxes. The move will affect major US companies such as Caterpillar.
Washington, DC — Spain’s decade-long program to subsidize the creation and continued existence of so-called green jobs through a massive infusion of taxpayer resources “has cost many jobs,” former President Bill Clinton admitted to a Spanish audience at the European University of Madrid this week, according to the Spanish daily newspaper El Mundo
YouTube – Newt Battles Rep Waxman (D) On Global Warming.
Senator Waxman: ”Mr. Gingrich, I am sure glad you’re not in charge of foreign policy. Do you think the only way to incentivize the country is by offering them more and more carrots. You have got to have some threat and sometimes you have to say incentivize you, we are going to give you some assistance, but there are going to be consequences.”
Mr. Gingrich: ” Mr. Chairman, I don’t think of American citizens the way I think of foreign dictators. And I don’t think this Congress should punish the American people. I think this Congress has every right to reward the American people, but I don’t think Lincoln’s government of the people, by the people, for the people should be turned into a government punishing the people..”
What a farce this whole Waxman-Markey Global Warming Bill/Earth Day party testimony turned out to be. It seems as if the old “If you’re not with us you are against us” policy is being recycled by the liberal democrats for use on “climate change” policy. But getting the bill through the House in it’s current form will never happen. Dems are already hedging their bets.
We’ve got our own little piece of snobby, California-lite liberaldom here in Colorado. It’s called Boulder and though I have met some decent folk there they are definitely a minority. I wouldn’t live there for anything. Not a chance. While we often laugh and poke fun at the idiocy that often emanates from the various crevasses and pits of the nation they really can’t be ignored. They challenge basic concepts like marriage and are laying the ground for things like carbon and consumption taxes and rigorous regulation of every aspect of your daily life. This is just another step in that direction and that day is coming. Mark my words.
Undoubtedly some day I’ll be sitting around with the missus in my loincloth stoking the illegal fire with wild animal dung telling the disbelieving grandchildren about the distant past when we actually possessed something known as “motorized transportation” and “electricity”. They will wag their heads in shock and horror at the thought that we once spewed poison in the air and fed such ancient monstrosities upon carbon based fuels.
A Global Warming Howler for the New Year
Pursuant to Assembly Bill 1229, a sticker displaying a rank comparing “the emissions of global warming gases from the vehicle with the average projected emissions of global warming gases from all vehicles of the same model year sold in the state” must be affixed to all motor vehicles henceforth sold in the state. These so-called “Global Warming Scores” range from 1 to 10, with 1 representing a vehicle selfishly emitting an excess of 520 “CO2 – equivalent Grams per mile” and 10 given to those altruistically checking in at under 200.Okay, so CO2 grams emitted per mile would appear a tangible, albeit excruciatingly inconsequentially silly, measure. But just what is a “CO2 – equivalent?”
Oil is down to $59.00 a barrel http://money.cnn.com/data/commodities/
So if we all still have jobs and can afford to make our car and mortgage payments gassing up our cars and buying heating oil should be a little easier.
EDIT: I just noticed that I mimicked the title of another post. Sorry Dave. This one is more apropriate to the content anyway.
The problem is not technical, uh, and the problem is not mastery of the legislative intricacies of Washington. The problem is, uh, can you get the American people to say, “This is really important,” and force their representatives to do the right thing? That requires mobilizing a citizenry. That requires them understanding what is at stake. Uh, and climate change is a great example.
You know, when I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know — Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.
They — you — you can already see what the arguments will be during the general election. People will say, “Ah, Obama and Al Gore, these folks, they’re going to destroy the economy, this is going to cost us eight trillion dollars,” or whatever their number is. Um, if you can’t persuade the American people that yes, there is going to be some increase in electricity rates on the front end, but that over the long term, because of combinations of more efficient energy usage, changing lightbulbs and more efficient appliance, but also technology improving how we can produce clean energy, the economy would benefit.
If we can’t make that argument persuasively enough, you — you, uh, can be Lyndon Johnson, you can be the master of Washington. You’re not going to get that done.
-Barack Obama
“I was the first to call for a 100 percent auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted down caps that are being placed, imposed every year.
“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.”
-Barack Obama
As a life long student of history I have to ask myself why certain nations, empires and peoples fell to only be eclipsed or replaced by others. Some fell to external threats and enemies, and many others brought about their own fall by their own inexplicable actions and self inflicted wounds. In the US we see ineptness all around and an increasing tendency of this great nation to slit its own throat. If anything, any demise will be of our own making.
The list is nearly endless and growing; an abysmal immigration policy, massive indebtedness and ridiculous reliance upon Communist China, a service oriented economy, an entire political party wedded to European style socialism and appeasement of terrorists, a massive and ever increasing government, a business environment that emphasizes short term profit and pyramid capitalism over good corporate citizenship, the mocking of traditional morals and values, the complete abandonment of common sense in all aspects of public life and policy, cultural diffusion and disintegration, bitter ideological divisions, rampant ideological fads, a massive debt, and lastly a refusal to utilize its own energy resources. It can be a daunting task to address this myriad of issues in a coherent and rational manner. The following article addresses the last self inflicted wound that I listed.
Sitting on an Ocean of Energy, Doing Nothing
When Brazil made this find last November, did its legislature announce that, for fear of oil spills hitting Rio’s beaches or altering the climate, it would forgo exploiting these fields?
Of course it didn’t. Guilherme Estrella, director of exploration and production for the Brazilian oil company Petrobras, said, “It’s an extraordinary position for Brazil to be in.” Indeed it is.
At this point in time, is there another country on the face of the earth that would possess the oil and gas reserves held by the United States and refuse to exploit them? Only technical incompetence, as in Mexico, would hold anyone back.
But not us. We won’t drill.
“The current Democratic mantra on energy is: ‘We can’t drill our way out of this problem.’ Apparently their plan is to talk our way out of this problem. Democrats are also alleging that the oil companies are sitting on millions of acres of oil but are refusing to drill—presumably because oil company executives hate the American people and perversely don’t want to make money. Manifestly, those acres are being explored for oil or have already come up dry. If the Democrats really wanted oil companies to find more oil, they’d allow oil companies to drill offshore and to drill in ANWR, which we happen to know is bursting with oil. But they don’t. They don’t want drilling. They don’t want more oil. They want humans to ride bicycles and then to die. We deserve it: We were mean to the polar bears. It’s good to know that in the middle of a crisis, the Democrats are still liars. As long as we’re fantasizing about ‘alternative’ energy sources, what we really need is a car that runs on Democrats’ lies.”
—Ann Coulter
A single-digit month.
Looking at the coalition fatalities for the first half of July, 2008 shows something remarkable…something not yet noted by any mainstream news agencies or blogs.
At first glance, the stats show that 6 good Americans gave their lives for our country so far this month in Iraq.
But that number of 6 doesn’t tell the tale.
Looking more closely at the numbers, two of our lost soldiers were due to non-hostile work accidents (e.g. one was electrocuted).
But that doesn’t mean that we’ve lost 4 good men to combat this month…you see…two of those lost to combat were killed at the height of the Surge, way back in May of 2007. They are shown in stats for this month because that’s when their bodies were recovered.
This means that two of our grave losses were from last year, not this month’s combat…and two other losses were due to non-hostile causes.
In other words, for the first half of July, 2008, the U.S. has lost two good men to combat in Iraq.
This is not D-Day 1944. Thousands haven’t been lost on a single Normandy beach in minutes.
We’ve lost two in two weeks to enemy combat.
If the second half of July mimmicks the first, we’ll have a single-digit of combat losses in Iraq this month. – Southack from FreeRepublic.com
ICasualties.com has some good charts and figures when it comes to the Iraq War. If this trend continues I eagerly await the Left (and Andre in particular) trotting out their own “mission accomplished” banner as even they are probably bright enough to see that the insurgency is collapsing in Iraq, the Sunni’s have decided they want to have a say and stake in the coming Iraq, and Al-Qaeda has been both rejected by the population and devastated on the battlefield. The Jihadists unexpectedly decided to make their stand in Iraq (with the compliance and cooperation of the threatened Hussein government) and thousands of fleeing Afghani based Al-Qaeda types as well as like minded others from throughout the Islamic world prepared to carry out a guerrilla war on the soon to invading American forces. Since then they have waged a surprisingly bloody, bushwacking type of war but now there is only one combatant left standing in the desert, and his name is Uncle Sam. This war is winding down, and forestalling any panicky and ill timed mass pullout by a naive Obama White House, the true work of creating a new, stable post-war ally will begin in the Middle East.
We hope to have a friendly nation in which to keep an eye on Iran and Syria, protect the areas petroleum fields, provide stability in the region, protect Israel and make the areas despots a wee bit nervous. If the United States wishes to remain a superpower it needs to be willing to make the hard choices at this time to protect it’s interests in the region. The only other option is to throw our hands up and withdraw behind our ocean barriers and bury our head in the sand as a resurgent Russia and empowered China make a play for world influence, control and strategic advantage.
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Democrats have worked hard to ensure that Americans pay as much for gas as Europeans do. After a quarter-century of gas tax hikes, a ban on drilling for oil and a complete destruction of the nuclear power industry in America, I guess liberals can declare: Mission accomplished!
In response to skyrocketing gas prices, liberals say, practically in unison, “We can’t drill our way out of this crisis.”
What does that mean? This is like telling a starving man, “You can’t eat your way out of being hungry!” “You can’t water your way out of drought!” “You can’t sleep your way out of tiredness!” “You can’t drink yourself out of dehydration!”
Seriously, what does it mean? Finding more oil isn’t going to increase the supply of oil?
It is the typical Democratic strategy to babble meaningless slogans, as if they have a plan. Their plan is: the permanent twilight of the human race.
-Ann Coulter
The literal hysteria when it comes to global warming is bringing the nuts out of the woodwork. It’s just amazing to watch, and would be humorous if these people didn’t wield power and prestige. This clown draws a government paycheck. And I’ve been attacked for comparing such tactics to fascism. I should demand yet another apology from my critics.
Put Global Warming Skeptics on Trial
It was reported in the London Guardian that NASA Scientist James Hansen (pictured), in prepared remarks to a House committee, “will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.”
I have a different vision of the future, one in which government bureaucrats like Hansen and radical environmentalists are held accountable for creating a multi-trillion dollar climate crisis in order to get more government funding and grow their own political and cultural influence.
“There is only one way to drive down the rising cost of gasoline for the long term: significantly increase the domestic supply of oil. We are the only nation in the world with access to known oil deposits on our own land or off our shores that essentially refuses to tap those resources. The main stumbling block is a lack of political consensus, which is in especially short supply in an election year. Instead of coming up with real solutions to our growing energy crisis, the Democrats in Congress would rather rail against the oil companies. But oil company executives don’t set the price of oil—and taxing their companies more won’t do anything to lower the cost of gasoline at the pump… It’s time Congress put election-year politics aside and get serious about allowing domestic oil production to solve this crisis.”
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.” —-C.S. Lewis
If the government gets into the business of regulating and controlling carbon emissions it will be an unparalleled concentration of power far exceeding the New Deal under Roosevelt. The government will be in complete control over what businesses and average citizens consume and produce. It is the gateway excuse to rule, regulate and control your daily life in a fashion that we have never tolerated before but are now expected to meekly accept as we attempt to bailout the bathtub with a teaspoon. Never have Americans been so willing to hand over the most fundamental financial, transportation and quality of life decisions to a central authority on such questionable grounds.
We have been brainwashed that climate change is mainly caused by human activity and that somehow carbon taxes, economic socialism, monitoring lawn mower emissions, criticizing cow flatulence and flailing away at the faceless evil that is “oil” will somehow make a difference on climate changes we are only barely beginning to understand, let alone significantly influence one way or another.
Rather disturbingly, presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama made the following statement while campaigning in Oregon.
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.” “That’s not leadership,” Obama declared. “That’s not going to happen.”
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