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New Book Examines Energy Myths
CNS News ^ | 4-27-05 | Paul M. Weyrich

Posted on 04/27/2005 10:25:16 AM PDT by FlyLow

Paul Ehrlich may not be a household name, but this troubadour of doom greatly has influenced the Left.

His book, The Population Bomb, predicted disastrous famines. "In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now," he predicted.

Not only did Ehrlich prove to be a Chicken Little about overpopulation, he also claimed in a 1975 newsletter (published by the Federation of American Scientists) that "giving society cheap, abundant energy at this point would be equivalent to giving an idiot child a machine gun."

Surprisingly, Ehrlich's thinking still influences many Americans, but not everyone buys the nonsense or double-talk.

Energy experts Peter W. Huber and Mark P. Mills take a different view. Their new book, The Bottomless Well: the Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy, challenges Ehrlich's thinking.

Huber, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute's Center for Legal Policy, specializes in technology. He also holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering from MIT and a law degree from Harvard. Mills holds a BS degree in physics from Queens University and was a consultant to the White House Science Office.

They argue that our society thinks there is an energy "problem." The authors see energy as a "solution," and thus inject fresh air and counter-conventional thinking into a debate dominated by buzzwords and slogans such as "energy efficiency" and "don't be fuelish."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bookreview; bottomlesswell; energy; environment; myth; peakoil; theskyisnotfalling; weyrich

1 posted on 04/27/2005 10:25:19 AM PDT by FlyLow
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To: FlyLow

BTTT


2 posted on 04/27/2005 10:26:21 AM PDT by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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To: FlyLow
The more wrong Paul Ehrlich is, the more the environmentalists listen to him, invite him to give speeches, and give him various 6 figure grants and awards.

Human ingenuity and technology and information are the most valuable resources, and these things can only become more abundant over time. Energy will indeed become more abuandant over time. OK, well, techniclaly, the total supply of mass/energy is fixed. But human access to energy will become greater and greater because of newer and better technology.

3 posted on 04/27/2005 10:40:45 AM PDT by grundle
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To: FlyLow

Can't be true. Oil has peaked. All the people in the oil industry know that already. We'll all be dead in a couple years. /sarcasm


4 posted on 04/27/2005 10:41:02 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: grundle

"Energy will indeed become more abuandant over time."

Maybe more like: "Our skill at using various forms of energy will become abundant, as necessity demands."


5 posted on 04/27/2005 10:50:28 AM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: grundle
The more wrong Paul Ehrlich is, the more the environmentalists listen to him, invite him to give speeches, and give him various 6 figure grants and awards.

Well sure.

But that's because Ehrlich was the FIRST to be so absolutely wrong about SO MANY different topics that the left believes and has so much faith in.

6 posted on 04/27/2005 10:53:13 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: FlyLow
Since so many people have forgotten this quack, perhaps a photo will help. Looks like a lot of sun damage to the skin.


7 posted on 04/27/2005 10:53:52 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: FlyLow
>Energy Myths


"If we could some way
tap Chihuahua energy,
oil is obsolete"

8 posted on 04/27/2005 10:54:59 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: FlyLow

Huber's books are fantastic. I also recommend Hard Green.


9 posted on 04/27/2005 10:55:48 AM PDT by jayef
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To: jayef

Read "EcoScam" for more hilarious contradictions by the same authors on globalwarming/freezing, depletion/overabundance, etc. Rifkin is another total actor who makes up chicken little stories for fame, fortune and fun.


10 posted on 04/27/2005 11:12:47 AM PDT by Safetgiver (Only two requisites to be a judge. Gray hair to look wise and hemmorhoids to look concerned.)
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To: theFIRMbss

Cute dog. My wife and I have 2 long-coats and 1 smooth-coat purebreds and one chihuahua mix. Great dogs, not at all yappy.


11 posted on 04/27/2005 11:19:24 AM PDT by white trash redneck (Everything I needed to know about Islam I learned on 9-11-01.)
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To: ClearCase_guy; FlyLow

This article can't be correct. I thought that there was:

Oil, Oil Everywhere
The Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal ^ | Sunday, January 30, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST | PETER HUBER AND MARK MILLS
Posted on 01/30/2005 10:24:37 AM CST by Woodworker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1331914/posts

Also, another solution:

Anything into Oil(solution to dependence on foregn oil?)
DISCOVER Vol. 24 No. 5 ^ | May 2003 | Brad Lemley
Posted on 04/21/2003 7:57:41 AM CDT by honway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/897232/posts


12 posted on 05/30/2005 9:59:44 AM PDT by hripka (There are a lot of smart people out there in FReeperLand)
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