Hanging together to save affordable power:energy suppliers threatened by radical green advocates

wash times ^ | 4/6/16 | t harris

[doldrumsforgop]

Throughout history, clever strategists have taken advantage of divisions within the ranks of their enemies to win otherwise unlikely victories. Military leaders would play tribe against tribe, province against province and then prey on the weaknesses that disunity brings.

The Sierra Club’s “Energy Resources Policy,” adopted by its board of directors on Oct. 22, 2015, is a case in point. Among the resources opposed by the Sierra Club are:

• Coal-fired power plants

• Coal-bed methane

• Oil shale

• Oil sands

• New offshore oil drilling

• Synthetic natural gas

• New natural gas electricity generation

• Hydraulic fracking

• Nuclear power plants

• New large hydroelectric plants

In other words, they oppose the sources that currently supply almost all of the world’s energy.

[doldrumsforgop]

the greens wish us back to the stone age, except they would likely ban wood burning as well.

[FatherofFive]

the greens wish us back to the stone age, except they would likely ban wood burning as well.

Ironically, the greens initially supported atomic power. There was a bumper sticker - "Split atoms - not wood"

[Rumplemeyer]

Follow the money Boys and Girls...

Question children, who is the greatest contributor to the Environmental movement?

OPEC!

Always follow the money to find the truth.

[TYVets]

Turn out the lights, the party is over.

(signed) The Sierra Club

[TexasRepublic]

Burn activists for fuel, we have a surplus going to waste.

[Arm_Bears]

The first order of business is to separate the Greens from all the advantages of the modern world—Electricity, indoor plumbing, refrigeration/AC, anti-biotics/vaccines, carbon-based transport of any sort.

Make them live with what they advocate.

Also, make them leave the rest of us alone.

[headstamp 2]

LOL, throw another stupid liberal on the fire.

[Paine in the Neck]

Wealth is, at its most fundamental level, measured by how much energy you can command. The more energy you have access to the richer you are, individually, as a business, as a society.

This effort to make energy less available, less reliable, and more expensive is at a level of societal insanity comparable to that which overwhelmed the Xhosa in 1856 when the prophetess of doom, Nongqawuse, convinced them that salvation lay in destroying all their cattle and crops. It will not turn out well.

Turning our backs on cheap, plentiful energy from any source is just as bad a move.

[doldrumsforgop]

“The first order of business is to separate the Greens from all the advantages of the modern world”

If we could just get all liberals to be under the rules and laws they construct, we would do away with liberalism, period.

just think of having them go defenseless without locks on their houses, without guns (or police) to protect them, and forcibly remove money from them to pay freeloaders to do nothing.

Or force them to house a bunch of Muslim refugees who can enter their daughter’s bathroom with her.

Think they will still support these policies?

[doldrumsforgop]

“Turning our backs on cheap, plentiful energy from any source is just as bad a move. “

IN liberal lala land, they believe they can make the sun and wind the cheap and plentiful energy. That fantasy just will not go away for them.

[BwanaNdege]

From the article:

"Similarly, hydroelectric companies will eventually be crippled if the climate scare continues. Besides the fact that vast quantities of methane are released when wetlands are flooded for hydroelectric dams, industry proponents apparently forget that the primary greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is water vapor. And far more water evaporates when it is held high above sea level in large surface area lakes than if it were allowed to drain naturally to the ocean. If governments continue to yield to environmental extremism, then they may eventually want to drain reservoirs."

The total area of the worlds large hydroelectric reservoirs is about 60,000 sq. miles. The area of the Pacific Ocean is about 60 million square miles. Reservoir evaporation is not a significant factor.

Insignificant things like this distract from the focus on the primary problem. The Sierra Club and similar environmental extremists want to destroy industrialized civilization.

[sheana]

Just look at the California wood burning regs. They’ve more or less already banned it here.

[Jonty30]

I wonder how many of them are aware they are being used?

[Does so]

I’ve seen logs made of rolled-up newspapers. Would the burning of NYTs and LA Times “rolled newspapers” be allowed in California? ;)

[minnesota_bound]

Their office building is made from oil based products and heated in the winter by same. They should move into tents made with organic cotton grown by indigenous natives.

[TexasRepublic]

“just think of having them go defenseless without locks on their houses, without guns (or police) to protect them, and forcibly remove money from them to pay freeloaders to do nothing.”

Houses are a terrible waste of resources, Comrade. I see them living under a tree, shivering in the dark.