God help us all. Save us from this freak.
Posted on 02/24/2023 5:50:54 PM PST by bitt
In “The Wonderful Tar Baby Story,” Uncle Remus told about the one time Brer Fox outsmarted Brer Rabbit.
Brer Fox mixes tar with turpentine to create a “Tar Baby” and sets his creation in the road. Brer Rabbit comes by and gets increasingly offended when the Tar Baby fails to acknowledge him. Brer Rabbit gets so incensed he decides to “bus’ you wide open,” only to get stuck, head, arms, legs, and all, in the tar. Oddly, Uncle Remus never tells us how (or whether) Brer Rabbit ended up as Brer Fox’s dinner.
As EE News said recently, “Coal’s survival beyond 2030 is not consistent with [President] Biden’s emission goals.” Biden’s climate envoy John Kerry in Glasgow assured his UN colleagues that, “by 2030 in the United States, we won’t have coal.” Indeed, the last U.S. coal-fired power plant came online over a decade ago.
Except for a few tiny nations, the rest of the world may be giving lip service to coal’s coming funeral. But in the real world, global power generation from coal rose 9 percent in 2021 to a projected 10,350 terawatt-hours, and many Asian nations are increasing their reliance on the tried and true provider of heat and electricity.
In 2022, global coal demand was expected to return to its all-time high (set in 2013), then surpass that level in 2023. Projections are that, by 2025, countries in Asia will use half of the electricity in the world. The biggest user is China, whose share has risen from just 10 percent in 2000 to a projected 33 percent by 2025. [The better to build more EV batteries and solar panels with coal-fired electricity.]
It seems that the more Biden, Kerry, and the Net Zero crowd attack King Coal, the more they get stuck in its clutches. Maybe, like Brer Rabbit, they are too self-absorbed and too much in a hurry to realize that demonizing the old fossil is a pathway to enslavement. And the Chinese Brer Fox is laughing his tail off.
As China, by far the world’s largest consumer of coal (at 4,320 trillion million cubic feet), expands its reach across the developing (and developed) world, nations with ties to China are also increasing their use of coal. India, too, dwarfs the U.S. in coal consumption (at 966 trillion MMcf compared to our 731 trillion MMcf). Meanwhile, five of the top seven per capita coal consumers are in Eastern Europe (Australia is number 1).
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You do not measure coal in cubic feet. The author is mixing up his natural gas and coal measures. While this is a good article, basic mistakes like that always detract from a story and make you wonder.
Tons or cubic feet? It is all good. /s
The guy who wrote this should have read the story. Uncle Remus told the rest of the story, how Brer Rabbit ended up getting away. Brer Rabbit told Brer Fox that he could do anything to him but says "please don't throw me in the briar patch." Brer Rabbit complained and pleaded so much not to be thrown into the briar patch that Brer Fox finally did exactly that. Brer Rabbit then laughs and laughs and tells Brer Fox that he was born in the briar patch and he gets away from Brer Fox.
Yeah, what a few incongruous units among friends?
God help us all. Save us from this freak.
Maybe 50 lb/ft3.
“Oh, man! This is GREAT! I can’t this tar baby’s stuff offa my hands or outa my nose!
Is this a simulaton or is it real??? It sure looks real ....
I’ve always wondered, too. But that animation makes it look like he has a double row of teeth in his jaw.
So I go with “funny fake.”
Sadly it will take massive blackouts and thousands dying from the effects of hypothermia before people realize the folly of the climate change cult. Watch for grid collapse in California and continued blackouts in Texas
“I was born and bred in the briar patch, Br’er Fox, born and bred in the briar patch!” Br’er being a contraction of Brother. We say brear but it probably sounds more like bruher.
“...Uncle Remus never tells us how (or whether)
Brer Rabbit ended up as Brer Fox’s dinner...”
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Person who wrote this never read the story.
Here is the original:
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Uncle Remus, by Joel Chandler Harris
Joel Chandler Harris died in 1908 and the first Uncle Remus book was published in 1881. The books were written in the vernacular of the times almost 150 years ago. It probably did not sound more like bruher.
Just to give you a hint, my Dad and my Father-in-Law both spoke in an old Southern vernacular you would have had to hear to believe. They both pronounced the word "crystal" like "chris-sch-tule and they pronounced "furniture" like "fern-a-tour." So basically sounding like a poorly educated rural Southerner. Joel Chandler Harris was not a poorly educated Southerner and wrote on the page exactly the way he heard it.
Gentlemen of the time called each other brother at every occasion to speak, so of course they would have contracted the word to smooth the conversation, sounding like "br'air" just as the dictionary shows it.
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