——Whether you love the pope-—
I don’t know how to love him.
What to do, how to move him.
I’ve been changed, yes really changed.
In these past few days, when I’ve seen myself,
I seem like someone else.
I don’t know how to take this.
I don’t see why he moves me.
He’s a man. He’s just a man.
And I’ve had so many men before,
In very many ways,
He’s just one more.
Should I bring him down?
Should I scream and shout?
Should I speak of love,
Let my feelings out?
I never thought I’d come to this.
What’s it all about?
We have a “California Pope.” To him, like California liberals, electricity is to be created “somewhere else” by government magic, and delivered in unlimited quantity to your light sockets for free.
This is the issue that none of the Enviro-Socialists wants to talk about. If we get rid of fossil fuels, what do we use to provide energy to a couple billion people? Do we go back to burning wood? And how do we lift those populations out of poverty? Solar and wind energy won’t do it. The market is using the most efficient option right now. There is no other realistic option.
Fortunately, this encyclical is rapidly turning the Pope into a laughingstock. Even leftists who would otherwise support him are embarrassed by his anti-technology rants, and examination of the whole rambling, incoherent document reveals more and more inconsistencies and illogic by the minute. It also reveals profound ignorance of everything ranging from energy and technology to markets and economics, and shows how completely unqualified he and his mostly Latin American 1970s leftist advisers are for this discussion.
I think this will be the moment at which people realize that the relentless barrage of opinions we are getting from the Pope is just that, a flood of the random opinions of an old man angry that he was never able to put them into practice during his glory days in the 1970s.
Having been in the low financial ranks I can most definitely assure everyone that the poor do want and need cheap ,plentiful energy for heat, light, cooling, refrigeration,cooking, and transportation .People who can’t afford to keep their living quarters comfortable get sick more and are less happy and productive.People who can’t afford to travel to work lose out on myriad opportunities.
$5 a gallon gasoline and 20cent kwh electric plus water,sewerage,trash and phone bills may be no burden to the six-figure salary man but it is hell for the minimum-wage worker trying to get ahead.And the cry to “move to where the jobs are” is usually bullcrap because the rents of living quarters near the jobs are too high for the low-paid;that is ,unless he or she illegally sahres an apartment with 10 other people!
Cheap energy lets people and goods move easily and life better.
I guess reality hasn’t smacked some people in the forehead just yet.
That is not what the greenies envision. The poor nation will remain energy poor and the enlightened world will give them all we think they need.