Posted on 03/02/2012 8:55:43 PM PST by neverdem
When President Obama suggested last week that we might eventually be replacing oil with algae, Mark Whittington of Yahoo suggested that the President had reached his "lunar base moment." It was an apt analogy...
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After spending a year failing to pass cap-and-trade, the Administration has doubled down with the Environmental Protection Agency, turning it loose on the nation's coal plants. The Sierra Club just celebrated the closing of the 100th coal boiler, with more to come. Just what this will mean for the reliability of the electric grid will be revealed this summer when electrical demand peaks. Last August, with temperatures at 110 degrees, Texas consumed a record 68,000 megawatts of electricity with only 76,000 MW of generating capacity on hand. Since then, the EPA has demanded the closure of 10,000 MW of Texas coal. The state has dodged the bullet only by going to court. Industrial states from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin are facing the same dilemma. If the region starts suffering power shortages this...
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At bottom, the real problem is what Charles Murray describes in his new book, Coming Apart --the growing gap between college-educated people schooled in the wish fulfillment of "green energy" and the hard-won, hard-nosed wisdom of blue-collar America. To the elite in New York, Washington and San Francisco, energy generation is something we're trying to put behind us. It's déclassé. Only in blue-collar regions like Pennsylvania, Ohio and North Dakota do the realities of energy become visible, tangible, and audible -- and taxable.
The good news for Republicans is that the battle lines are drawn. After a summer of $5 gas plus power shortages in industrial regions, the results of four years of Obama energy policies will be hard to avoid. And there won't be any George Bushes around to take the blame.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Who is John Galt?
In my part of flyover Pennsyltucky there is no retail less than three miles away...one way. No public transportation unless you are over 65. Unless you're an experienced mountain biker internal combustion driving is a necessity.
not sure anything can stick to this ‘teflon’ nothing sticks pres.
Great post! Thanks.
Well? For me, it is enough the Obama WANTS high energy prices, and that he AND his Energy Secretary have said so.
I subscribe to an energy investment newsletter, and the Paulbots there almost seem to defend Obama, at times.
But, of course, they WANT scarce energy -—
This is what is most troubling:
The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.” — Author Unknown
“When President Obama suggested last week that we might eventually be replacing oil with algae, Mark Whittington of Yahoo suggested that the President had reached his “lunar base moment.””
I doubt you all will be laughing when the Gingrich-Obama Lunar Base Alpha is humming away powered by its massive algae biofuel farms :P
I dunno!
When is some state like Texas going to stand up and tell the imperial federal government to kiss its you know what? How much longer do we as a free people, given to us by God, and the US Constitution going to stand for this crap. These envirowackkos, socialists, communists, homo loving dimocrats continue to drive PC down our throats and demand we bow to them. I am frankly sick and tire of it. We are a free people. We have states. Those states have rights to determine what too do with their own states and those states resources. The federal government has gotten too big for its pants. Like trying to stuff a size 44 into a 36 pair of pants. Won’t fit!
Yeah but this would stick and would stick bad... No amount of lies and propaganda can convince the majority of voters that it is not Obama and the democrats fault that gas prices are so high and causing a lot of hurt.
Yeah but this would stick and would stick bad... No amount of lies and propaganda can convince the majority of voters that it is not Obama and the democrats fault that gas prices are so high and causing a lot of hurt.
Thank you for repeating it once again. Yes, that is what’s most troubling.
Dude! you’re out of line- we’re all on this planet together.
Bush’s coal and oil poison is killing us.
Destroying dams. Destroying a critical pipeline. Wiping out the oil industry of the nation.
Its hard to know if we are discussing the allies attacking Nazi Germany,, or Obama attacking the USA.
Thanks for the link.
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