The error of the left is that it believes that government is god. It certainly is not. It is not even the best and brightest among mortals. It seems to have a large number of scheming, manipulative sociopaths that rise to the top. To trust them could be fatal.
My flabber is gasted that those states are the ones pushing;
“Fifteen States Respond to ‘Woke Capitalism,’ Threaten to Cut Off Banks That Refuse to Service Coal, Oil Industries.”
If that group of folks have bought in to the woke banking idea all is lost.
Talk is cheap. Being cold or in the dark are show-stoppers.
The author forgot to mention Germany is cutting over 4,000 megawatts of power generation this winter.
In the face of a cold winter, will they continue the shutdown and continue to schedule the shutdown of another 4,000 megawatts next winter?
Uhhuummm wild guess ... yep, they will continue the shut down. Else the Germanic She-Troll will start screaming at them. No one wants that horror. Freezing is preferable.
Marxists think that advancing the cause represents a higher morality than telling the truth. Who still believes them? They do!
The book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay, 1841 deserves attention. Simply responding to the title, some would see this an argument for socialism.
If crowds go crazy, the tonic could be government decision making. However, surveying the contents of the book shows that many of the crowds that had gone mad were in to be found in parliament, or the King’s court. In other words, government crowds gone mad were the problem.
What if government was guided by an expert? Wouldn’t that provide the protection we need from madness? I suspect that in many cases, the mad government crowds were just following an expert uncritically. Calling Dr. Fauci.
Today we need to ban CO2 production lest it lead to global warming or climate change. An example of global warming would be a very mild winter for Chicago. If Chicago gets a colder winter than usual, EXTREEMLY cold, that would be climate change. We have a firm prediction of warmer or colder. Based on this we are supposed to turn our world upside down? Madness in deed, but Dr. Gore made a movie.
Exxon et al should engage in the war against big oil and destroy the enemy’s troops in the field. Big oil should cease gasoline sales in California.
No announcement, no fanfare....... just stop
BTTT
Most of the “supporters/advocates” of alternative energy do not themselves use alternative energy.
Many in reality own multiple energy suck mansions and fly around in private jets.
Which suggest that the “supporters/advocates” don’t really believe in what they say?
The only reason it isn’t working is because all these governments and thier employee’s don’t really believe in it. When the First State or Country MANDATES all Travel For ALL Government be conducted strictly with Non Carbon Emitting transportation, they can then show the whole World the wonders of Green Energy
Denmark, the world's most wind-intensive nation, with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19% of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil-fuel plant.
It requires 50% more coal-generated electricity to cover wind power's unpredictability, and pollution and carbon dioxide emissions have risen (by 36% in 2006 alone).
Flemming Nissen, the head of development at West Danish generating company ELSAM (one of Denmark's largest energy utilities) tells us that "wind turbines do not reduce carbon dioxide emissions."
The German experience is no different. Der Spiegel reports that "Germany's CO2 emissions haven't been reduced by even a single gram," and additional coal-and gas-fired plants have been constructed to ensure reliable delivery.
The question is how will they seek to solve the shortages: free up the markets or more oppressive government regulation? My guess is the latter.
there is no such a thing as a fossil fuel
It is not nice, but I wish the Europe a very cold winter.
That may return them to sanity.
In the US, sanity returns when Brandon is retired.
Let’s stop calling them fossil fuels, shall we? That’s a phony leftist coinage.
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“What you’ll need is an old pre-war F.C., a standardized Fusion Core. Your high-grade, long-term nuclear battery. Used by the military and some companies way back when.”
- Preston Garvey, Commonwealth Minutemen
the state treasurers signing on to the letter include those from West Virginia, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, Alabama, Texas and Kentucky.
Not the collection I expected. No Texas or Oklahoma or Pennsylvania.
Up until now this folly has been like a toy to entertain and appease some but now it has become a headlong march into a dark tunnel at increasing speed. It does not know where it is going, how long the tunnel is, does not see a light ahead and has no idea how long the supplies will last. Soon it will be irreversible without great cost and suffering. It is now for some. Will we become like cave divers who have gone to far looking for the other exit before exhausting our air and can’t go back to safety? I think that is where some are taking us. That is fine for explorers but not for an entire society.
Said another way, it is like being ship wrecked, throwing all the supplies overboard because they are too heavy and intending to forage for food not knowing how or for how long. There is no plan, only blind faith that we are on the right track and will save the planet from something. From nothing that has not happened before and is unstoppable.
A cold winter with a few Polar Vortex events plunging temperatures to the -40 range coupled with shortages of natural gas and home heating oil plus ridiculous increases in the cost of these resources will convince all but a few green diehards that that we end using fossil fuels at our peril. I would also expect widespread blackouts, like last years Texas blackout, will become common too.
Later.