Posted on 08/16/2008 6:45:28 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
Visiting America last week to talk to audiences across the country about "global warming", I was struck by television commercials for the two presidential candidates.
Senators McCain and Obama were each shown in front of film of the same giant wind farm, to lay claim to virtually identical "green" credentials. Since America has already built five times as many wind turbines as Britain, covering thousands of square miles, I checked out how much electricity all those 10,000 turbines actually produce. The answer is around 4.5 gigawatts - not much more than a single large coal-fired power station.
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Yesterday’s issue. With $4.00 gas and a slowing economy, we don’t have time to indulge in our save-the-world fantasies.
The world will have to wait a bit longer (and sure it will).
>>>What is terrifying is the extent to which America’s leading politicians seem oblivious to the economic realities of what they are proposing.
it is terrifying.
i was in los angeles today. i have my bumper sticker “democrats will not drill oil” on my pickup.
on the 101 just north of downtown, a guy in a black mercedes s 550 rolled his window down and spit in front of my pickup.
makes you wonder if he’s going to power his mercedes with wind energy?
This kind of idiocy I’d expect from a know-nothing extremist like Hussein - I’m hoping McCain comes to his senses before he has a chance to do some real damage to the US economy.
In short: intervention by government destroys wealth and liberty.
Further, no committee of decision-makers can have as much information about how to allocate finite resources as millions of customers who are free to choose (or not choose) from a range of options, or are free to change their behavior and to adapt. For a contemporary example we can look at the issue of ethanol in motor vehicle fuels.
The rats and perhaps McCain have no intention of backing off ruinous global warming legislation. Cap and trade is a rat dream, $10 gas will not slow rat visions of a world without fossil fuels. The rats have fully embraced the vision of the environmental pope. If the rats take firm control in 2009, cap and trade will be enacted. The legislation will be almost complete government control of the economy.
True - they are relentless...but you have to be impressed that Americans, at least for now, are willing to question the commandments of Al Gore and others like him.
Too bad you didn’t have a big ole wad of Red Man ready to go splat on the paint job of his Mercedes. Ya know, pick-ups and Red Man go together like bottle cokes and peanuts.
yeah, but i’m an easy-going person.
and, los angeles is not the kind of place to take on people.
i’m thinking about removing the bumper sticker.
i saw only one other bumper sticker today in 200 miles of driving across los angeles.
it was an obama sticker. the driver pulled in front of me, so i’d see it, i assume.
4.5 gigawatts - not much more than a single large coal-fired power station . . .
That's the total of all the wind power in America. Yes, there are places where wind power makes sense. But it can never amount to anything near what coal-fired or nuclear powered generation can do.
McCain looks like a total ass trying to play "me too" to Obama on this issue.
Global Warming
The environment
The ozone layer
Wind Power
Bio Fuels & Ethanol
Recycling
Political Correctionism
All different names for communism.
Probably the unreported reason for all of the California highway shootings.
series?
Windmills are as dead and the bird carcasses all around them.
Your bumper sticker told a simple truth. Hang in there.
If you have a cell phone, pretend you’re taking a picture of him next time that happens.
I live in San Francisco and am afraid to put a McCain sticker on my car. Call me a wimp, but we live paycheck to paycheck and any vandalism would rate my car as “totalled” by our insurance at this point - we’d have to just get a new car. Also I am usually driving with little chilluns in the car. So the McCain sticker stays on my CD case.
Most interesting.
Yeah, the myth of American "free political speech" has been turned into a parody. I don't put conservative stickers on my cars because I don't like to have the paint job keyed and be targeted by aggressive dimwits. I don't live far from where Ken had his incident and such things can turn very ugly, especially at night. Ironic, isn't it, that the libs appear to have no such concerns.
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