Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 06/28/2010 3:57:22 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
President Obama’s attempt to turn the Deepwater Horizon disaster into an advertisement for alternative “green” energies and “cap and trade” legislation was so offensive that even Senator Diane Feinstein was forced to observe that “the climate bill isn’t going to stop the oil leak.”
In a June 15 column published by the New York Times, Peter Baker took that analysis a bit further:
“The connection to the spill, of course, goes only so far. While (Obama) called for more wind turbines and solar panels, for instance, neither fills gasoline tanks in cars and trucks, and so their expansion would not particularly reduce the need for the sort of deepwater drilling that resulted in the spill.”
This entirely reasonable and technically accurate statement enflamed the president’s cheerleaders over at Media Matters, where Fae Jencks took Baker to task: “While wind and solar energy may not fill cars’ tanks, it will power their batteries. What Baker fails to acknowledge is that by ensuring that ‘more of our electricity comes from wind and solar power,’ Obama would ensure that those vehicles are powered with clean energy rather than with electricity produced by fossil fuel plants.”
Those two sentences summarize the green nirvana that the president is trying to foist upon America. It’s a goal that’s entirely unachievable, because of a number of technical and economic realties that lie just below the surface of simplistic analysis. It’s not surprising that a technically-illiterate blogger who posts at a site devoted to echoing this administration’s progressive agenda would make such an assertion, but it’s quite disturbing that the man who is supposed to be the leader of the free world would utter such foolishness.
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And that such a large percentage of people would vote for such a tool.
Obama’s intelligence is a myth.
Show me a solar-powered dump truck! That's my standard of knowing that solar power has arrived. Not even close.
And wind? Put up enough windmills to significantly contribute to the power grid and you'll change the climate a lot faster than fossil fuels does. You can't take energy from the wind for nothing.
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“Put up enough windmills to significantly contribute to the power grid and you’ll change the climate a lot faster than fossil fuels does.”
Yep.. Put up enough wind mills and you’ll change the wind patterns which will reek all kinds of problems with the environment.
Slight problem... where am I going to get a charge when I'm 40 miles from home and a quick "fill up" takes an hour? Note also my mileage may vary. If I am using the windshield wipers, heater, defroster or radio or the ambient air temperature is below 32 or above 90 I better have cab fare to get home. I can forget about air conditioning. I just can't wait to buy one of these cars. Thank you Dear Leader for your foresight and innovation.
LLS
Let’s put Obama on an electric powered airplane to Kenya, he stands about as much of a chance of reaching his destination as his idiotic green economy has of succeeding.
“...one cannot be a liberal and have reason and logic wired correctly into the brain...”
Amen...and...AMEN!
Absolutely.
LLS
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