[JLS]

Steyn discusses environmental scams.

[JLS]

Steyn writes again.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The extension cord wasn’t fat enough.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Green scam ping.

[Frantzie]

Excellent as usual. Only Zamboni makes a Zamboni.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_resurfacer

During the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, serious problems developed with the three battery-powered “green” resurfacers used to maintain the speed skating oval, products of Canadian-owned Resurfice. Malfunctions included ineffective waste-ice storage and significant tire gouging; in order to improve the ice a propane-powered Zamboni brand machine was brought in from Calgary’s two-decades old speed skating facility, site of Canada’s last Winter Olympics.[2] Speed skating figures from outside Canada speculated such widespread mechanical issues might be due to the restrictive international access policy since the Richmond Olympic Oval was constructed 18 months ago, with the resurfacers unable to complete their break-in process due to relatively infrequent usage.[3]

[La Lydia]

Excellent.

The Germans subsidize “green jobs” in the wind-power industry to just shy of a quarter-million dollars per worker per year. The Spanish government pays $800,000 for every “green job” on a solar-panel assembly line. This money is taken from real workers with real jobs at real businesses whose growth is being squashed to divert funds to endeavors that have no rationale other than their government subsidies. As the Spanish are discovering, this model is not (le mot juste) sustainable...

[mlocher]

If you want to go green, buy the cheapest item. It takes less energy to make, and hence produces that least CO2.

Of course, there is no money to be made in that, so green products are more costly. Either they use more energy and are [supposedly] more detrimental to the environment, or they are a rip-off, with the flim-flam man walking away with your hard earned dollars.

[oyez]

Green is the color of failure.

[Doomonyou]

bfl

[rex regnum insanit]

Mark Steyn is brilliant. He’s also one of the funniest people I’ve ever read or heard. He has a wonderful sense of the ridiculous that he uses to pour cold water over the leftists’ ideas.

[Pontiac]

[Pontiac]

[MaryFromMichigan]

Nor was Al Gore able to be up there on every one of California’s 14,000 abandoned wind turbines. They’re not entirely useless, not if you’re an ornithosadist who enjoys seeing our feathered friends sliced and diced by the Condor Cuisinarts.



("ornithosadist"- got to love that Steyn!)

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[Rummyfan]

Bravo Steyn!

These are the “green jobs” that Barack Obama says will both save the planet and revitalize the economy: electric Zambonis, foil insulation, wind turbines, corn-powered cars. They will put America back on the cutting edge. In reality, like the spiked cutting edges of the electric ice-resurfacer, they’ll leave the economy full of artificial speed-bumps that, when not actually sending you crashing to the ground, will make it harder and harder ever to get going.