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I guess everybody’s seen that Nissan Leaf ad with all the little dirty gas engines powering everything. That ad freaks me out. It’s images are compelling, but the whole thing is a dirty lie. It’s promoting a rhetorical fanatasy. I guess what freaks me out is the realization that this kind of rhetoric can easily prevail over stolid reason.

Just like the “Support Clean Energy Now” ads with the little girl playing in the waves to boost the idea of wave powered energy. Too bad the physics just don't work — there simply isn't enough exploitable power in water waves to impact our needs. But it's a cute little girl! If you bring up physics, why, you must hate little girls!

But hey, let's assume some super genius figures out a way to MAKE it work with NO environmental impact. Well, the EPA, animal rights groups, and every ever leftscum group will stop any actual implementation for excuses ranging from “you are killing (some common worthless creature with a cute name) by doing this” to “by converting that energy you are causing global warming/cooling/no change (which is bad because climate should change).”

And people believe this garbage. Most of ‘em. Frankly, they deserve their coming fate...