You know the drill...ooops, bad choice of word there...You know the liturgy. It is oil which is evil. The hydrocarbon fuel we run the economy on and which despite our abundant reserves we create scarcity by importation must be replaced. The key words are "renewable" and "environmentally friendly."
No nukes, no coal, no gas, no oil is our goal. We shall exist on wind and solar. It will take time but it is the direction in which we must proceed. There is a slight problem though.
It seems that we really need a lot of electricity at night when solar panels are at less than optimum efficiency. That's what makes windmills so attractive. Well, they aren't really attractive, are they? They are a blot on the landscape of America. Where we once could look across the prairies and see the far horizons now we look and see farms of these horrendous rotating white abominations. You don't notice them on John Kerry's Cape Cod coastline, but here in the heartland you can't miss them.
We're fighting against a slurry pipeline from Canada to Texas refineries right now. It will be underground and brand new with the best technology available, but the enviros are against it. It might leak. Go with windmills.
There have been complaints about birds being killed by windmills, but that's been ignored. A bald eagle here, a golden condor there is a small price to pay for ending global climate change, isn't it?
Now this:
Bat Brings Generation to a Halt
Got that? Someone is at work running around searching under these windmills to see if a bat is getting hurt. God forbid that an endangered specie bat should bite the big one on a brutal blade. The solution? We'll cage the windmills at night...which as I recall is the time of maximum darkness and therefore greatest need for electrical generation.
Turn out the lights, the party's over!
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Hi, Ed. Just read your first book. Glad to see you're alive and well, and teaching, no less. Good that there are at least some people teaching our kids who have some sense. I'd like to send you an essay that I believe you'd find interesting, if you can provide me with an e-mail address that I can attach a PDF file to.
It's not looking very good, Ed.
I'm not much of one to read the latest bestseller, political tome or otherwise.
But, I'm very tempted to get Pat Buchanan's latest book Suicide of a Superpower - as that appears to be the direction we're heading.
Energy and environmental issues are a prime example of where a small liberal cabal is holding the policy of the entire nation hostage.
The problem in energy is that so much oil and gas left is on land owned by the government and it controls access. Any project on private ground with private money typically implicates govt review and permitting with a right of citizen suit in civil court.
Those that can control or obstruct the political and administrative process can control energy policy.
The US has economic problems, and high unemployment and slow growth are symptoms of the problems. Expensive energy is a problem, our economy has never done well with it. In contrast, it does very well with cheap energy even if Dims are doing stupid things like raising taxes. Refer to the Clinton era, a period of oil cheaper than in the prior 2 decades when adjusted for inflation, for a prime example. Clinton was one of the luckiest presidents in recent history; he had dirt cheap oil and Congress served as a check that precluded him from getting his agenda passed and thus prevented him from shooting himself in the foot.
Now contrast Obama. He had a Dim Congress that allowed him to pass his healthcare agenda, his green energy agenda, is allowing him to freeze hydrocarbon production, and he is facing high energy. He is too ideological and devoid of common sense to see reality for what it is.
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