[Paine in the Neck]

Wealth is, at its most fundamental level, measured by how much energy you can command. The more energy you have access to the richer you are, individually, as a business, as a society.

This effort to make energy less available, less reliable, and more expensive is at a level of societal insanity comparable to that which overwhelmed the Xhosa in 1856 when the prophetess of doom, Nongqawuse, convinced them that salvation lay in destroying all their cattle and crops. It did not turn out well for them then. It will not turn out well now.

Turning our backs on cheap, plentiful energy from any source is just as bad a move.

[Iron Munro]

Wealth is, at its most fundamental level, measured by how much energy you can command. The more energy you have access to the richer you are, individually, as a business, as a society.

Well said.

If we could get liberal ignoramuses to think clearly and realistically understand the alternative life they would lead if their Green Dream of eliminating consumption of the so called fossil fuels comes to pass most of them would instantly change course.

There isn't one aspect of modern life that isn't dependent on abundant, affordable energy.

And most of that is derived from the 'fossil fuels'.

The only reasonable alternative, in terms of capacity and output, is nuclear power and the Greenies hate that even more than burning petroleum and coal.

Even the manufacturing and construction of their beloved windmills and solar plants is mostly dependent on the power derived from petroleum and coal.

Without fossil fuel we would regress back to a lifestyle without trains, planes, cars, trucks and powered ships.

A life where the sources of energy were man himself along with horses, oxen, mules, water wheels and sailboats.

No more TV, iPods, cel phones, electric lights and refrigeration.

We wouldn't even have steam ships and steam locomotives because they don't want us to burn wood. And how would they heat their cave dwellings and log cabins?

And in addition to the loss of energy production there are all the products manufactured from petroleum as the raw material that would disappear from our lives!