Posted on 11/08/2009 5:16:28 AM PST by Founding Father
The pyramid of aluminum shown in the photograph figures greatly in our nation’s history. This once rare metal was so prized that it was placed into a national monument by a grateful nation. Can you guess where? Now, aluminum is so common, thanks to an electrical refining process and plentiful, cheap electricity, that we throw it away in soda cans.
Two seemingly unrelated events on opposite sides of the globe occurred this past week.
One was the closure of an aluminum plant in Montana, and the other is the president of a European metals association threatened to move production overseas citing environmental rules and energy costs escalating due to emissions trading schemes.
(Excerpt) Read more at wattsupwiththat.com ...
We need to look no further than the many environmental groups like the Sierra Club and to America’s elected officials who turned their backs on American citizens and in essence themselves,
Corruption at every level is killing us.
With any good luck and some degree of irony, if the Obama administration weakens the dollar any more, the cost of manufacturing overseas may become so expensive that American companies will start manufacturing stuff here again. After all, the American worker can make cheap plastic stuff just as well as Chinese workers, and once you make it here you don’t have to ship it here....
“Cap and Job Kill” hasn’t even gone into law, yet, and we are loosing jobs because of it. Thanks to the Democrats and the radical socialist who use the environment as their weapon, we are in for very bad times.
yeah, but that is what the “Cap and Job Killer” law is for. That will keep the cost here really high so we can’t shift our manufacturing back home. The Democrats are working a real number on us. Our enemies, the Soviet communist couldn’t have planned this one better.
Never before? Guess they never heard the tale of Lysenko and the Soviet Union! Paging Dr Robert Stadler, please call your office.
Cheap, abundant energy drives the economic engine of the west. Nations that throttle their own energy supply will, inevitably, fall in terms of growth and economic output. The United States is cutting its own throat.
“American worker can make cheap plastic stuff just as well as Chinese workers, and once you make it here you don’t have to ship it here....”
But the cost of regular cup of coffee will be $10.00
“I used to belong to the Sierra Club in the 1960’s. It used to be a nice hiking club. In the late 1960’s the Sierra Club began turning its attention toward stopping nuclear power. Then I quit the Sierra Club.”
This states what has bugged me for decades. The major environmental groups used to include people of diverse political inclinations. Then the lunatics pushed out the rational members from one group after another. And the rational became voiceless for never having coalesced into any groups of their own.
But the cost of regular cup of coffee will be $10.00
Half way there already at Starbucks.
I remember when one could have his choice, for a nickle:
A cup of coffee
A loaf of bread
A beer
A coke
An ice cream cone
I was too young for nickle beer, but I later enjoyed many for a quarter.
Thank you for the link. The experience of Lysenko illustrates perfectly the intellectual and scientific corruption that occurs when politicians are aggrandized by ideologues for corrupting scientific investigation in the name of political agendas.
Al Gore is the quintessential example of despotic ignorance about legitimate science in pursuit of legislation that increases his personal wealth.
I have been saying for some time that we must get rid of the EPA.
They have done more damage to this country than all of the terrorists.
Just a short list:
Spotted owl destroyed the lumber industry on the west coast.
Polar bear ...Alaska oil
Coal fired power
Nuclear power plants
Smelt and farming in CA
Ivory billed wood pecker
Aluminum Company of America
Effect on auto manufacturing
EA has had more to do with driving manufacturing out of this country than any other one thing.
In the 1950s there was a bar at Broadway and 125th Street near Columbia U. where you could get a small beer and a free lunch (bread and butter, cold cuts, coldslaw, pickled beets, etc. All you could eat) for a dime.
most of these groups are closed minded....
a few years ago however, the readers of "Outside" magazine were polled, and majority of them were hunters.....
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