Blackout Blame Game Began Within Minutes;Responsibility Lies With Environmentalist Wackos

EIB Network ^ | August 15, 2003 | Rush Limbaugh

[jmstein7]

Blackout Blame Game Began Within Minutes;

Responsibility Lies With Environmentalist Wackos

August 15, 2003

Within minutes of the power outage, Senator Hillary Clinton and other Democrats were on the air blaming it on the Bush administration. They even tried to link it to Schwarzenegger because his movies were once seen by somebody who worked at Enron. Whenever anything goes wrong, you can count on Democrats to use it to pull us apart rather than bring us together. I told a caller that I didn't plan to politicize this issue at all, but I’m not going to sit here while they put responsibility for a failure of their policies on George W. Bush.

This is eerily similar to the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965. Environmental extremists have stood in the way of any advancement or expansion of our own energy independence. They advocate a primitive, powerless existence, claiming to seek some supposed equilibrium with nature that has never existed. I gave commentary over President Bush's live comments on this blackout, which included a salient analysis of the problem: "I view it as a wake-up call. You know, I've been concerned that our infrastructure, the delivery system is old, and antiquated, and I think this is an indication of the fact that we need to modernize the electricity grid."

You can hear my full analysis in the audio link below, but you longtime listeners know just what leftist policies have brought us to this. Whether it's drilling for oil in ANWR or anywhere else in this country or building nuclear power plants or modernizing our energy system, they are steadfastly against it on their supposed pristine environmentalist concerns. The transmission of energy in this country is heavily regulated. Everybody wants to blame this on the private sector, but it's the government that won't let them build new towers or modernize their 1950s equipment. It's environmental extremists who've used a supposed concern for the environment as a way to stop the march of technology.

If they were honest, they'd come out and say that we had this problem because they didn't want to modernize or expand our energy industry. They'd make their case. The fact that they don't proves that they know, once again, that their agenda will not be accepted by the people when presented fairly. Anyone who pays attention saw this coming. Consider this Washington Post headline: "Systems Crash was Predicted." It quotes David Cook, general counsel for the Electric Reliability Organization telling Congress two years ago: "The question is not whether but when the next major failure of the will occur."

[Grampa Dave]

Lets label them, Watermelon Green Jihadists who hate America/Americans and want to cleanse the planet of humans.

[Eala]

[ImpeachandRemove]

But of course. The wackos oppose every form of power generation, particularly the low cost forms like coal and hydro. They favor ripping out thousands of megawatts of capacity in the Bonneville system. They even oppose wind generation, with one of the lead wackos, RFK Junior, coming out in shrill opposition to wind turbines on Martha's Vinyard. And they fight powerlines tooth and nail, claiming, without evidence, that they cause cancer and every other ailment known to humankind. Probably cause impotence too:)

Yes, the wackos are definitely the guilty party here.

[hoosiermama]

Agree! They are experimenting with power cells using garbage to produce electricy in the LA area right now. Can also produce electricy using corn in the midwest. The methane currently emitted as waste at the oil refinaries can also be used. So let's grow our own electricity. Garbage, corn or waste produce? Take your choice! (We have to be forward thinking on this issue and not label it as some have as "wacko tech" It is the future! )

[ASOC]

Sadly, local utility commisions have the upper hand.

Case in point - Las Vegas - a germam company wanted to put in a (I believe it is called ) a LUZ plant - all solar - 0 polution but the cost of the electic was 1/2 cent per KW/h higher than conventional
so - the PUC foces the project to close before it starts and a co-generation plant is now on line - lots of CO and used natural gas....

If we won't build solar where it makes sense and is possible, where will it get used?

[Mr. K]

that will encourage them to make it 1/2 cent per kw/hr LESS expensinve, then, won't it?

[buzzyboop]

As if the power grid can magically be updated January 21,2001, the day after President Bush took office. My local paper, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial staff puts the blame squarely where it belongs, on the failed environmental policies of the Klintoons.

[sissy_spacedout]

Facinating to see that Clinton is responsible for the lack of investment in the power generating stations and transmission lines. Ummm, I don't know of too many people who want to have the stations in their back yards or near their housing developments - where are they supposed to be built? In most of North America our transmission lines are getting older, no one's willing to pay for upgrading the system, and we've just given Al Queda an idea for their next attack.

[IGNATIUS]

This country has several hundred years supply of coal plus new clean coal technologies for burning and cleanup of effluents.We need to get on with constucting such power plants and the grids to go with increased capacity.

South Africa supplies nearly all their gasoline and petroleum reqs from coal using improved WWII German technology(there are no oil wells in SA). Our honeymoon of cheap foreign oil will end with expected loss of dollar hegemony(America's monopoly for creating currency the rest of the planet accepts out of green ink and paper).We had better be looking to alternatives.

[Grampa Dave]

"…I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have an ecological society under socialism. I don't think it's possible under capitalism."

Judi Barri of EarthFirst! quoted by Walter Williams, columnist with Heritage Features, Syndicate, State Journal Register, June 25, 1992.

[Eva]

The Washington Post ran an article on Friday morning that said that the Senate Democrats were planning to continue to obstruct the energy bill for environmental causes because the public had lost interest in the energy issues since the war in Iraq. The article was obviously written before the blackout and has since been pulled from the website. I am desperately seeking someone with a hard copy of the Friday issue of the Washington Post.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Many socialists claim to be egalitarians, but they evnision a society where the ruling class enjoys every luxury while everyone else subsists on, at best, early 19th century technology. It is not about the environment at all. Every time a "green" technology (hydro, wind) is actually about to be used that would do some good, they are suddenly opposed to that, too. They hate human-kind and want everyone but themselves to live in poverty. Maybe they get a power trip (no pun intended) by trying to turn the clock back on technology and force everyone to live in primitive conditions. I remember when "progressives" thought electricity for the masses was a good thing. Today's "progressives" want to take it all away.

[E Rocc]

Many socialists claim to be egalitarians, but they evnision a society where the ruling class enjoys every luxury while everyone else subsists on, at best, early 19th century technology. It is not about the environment at all. Every time a "green" technology (hydro, wind) is actually about to be used that would do some good, they are suddenly opposed to that, too. They hate human-kind and want everyone but themselves to live in poverty. Maybe they get a power trip (no pun intended) by trying to turn the clock back on technology and force everyone to live in primitive conditions. I remember when "progressives" thought electricity for the masses was a good thing. Today's "progressives" want to take it all away.

They save the majority of their hatred for nuclear, which when done properly is just as "green" as wind and perhaps moreso than hydro (dams and all...), plus has the additional drawback of being able to service high-density requirements.

IMO it's not so much that they hate prosperity as they want control. Individuals with access to abundant energy and inexpensive private transportation are much tougher to control than individuals who depend on government for their access. Especially if they spread out...hence the hatred such people have for "sprawl". The whole point of socialism or any other authoritarian/totalitarian system is indeed said control...replacing the power of productivity with an aristocracy of pull.

-Eric

[Maria S]

"This country has several hundred years supply of coal..."


"In 1996, President Clinton created the 1.7 millon-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah, placing off-limits the world's largest deposit of low-sulfur coal."


Deceit And Deception - US Dealings in Indonesia

24 September 1999, John Howard
http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/etdeal.htm

If you're interested in reading about the Riadys, the Lippo Group, Ron Brown, Indonesia, and how Clinton 'took care' of the US coal supply, you can read it at the above website. Remember when Clinton was signing the executive order that tied up all of our low-sulphur coal...and one of his cohorts (can't remember) said, "Kinda cool; stroke of a pen".

[FreeLibertarian]

If I read or see one more politician or talking head using this event using the Blackout to promote their adenda I'm going to PUKE!

THE BLACKOUT WAS CAUSED BY A FAILURE OF THE PROTECTIVE RELAY SYSTEM THAT PROTECTS THE GRID.

This is an engineering problem and it will be solved by Engineers not fools with a microphone.

[Grampa Dave]

Both of you have nailed the Watermelon Enviralist Jihadists who want to control America.

The elite fascists visualize living like the top Nazis did before WWII. They will have incredible homes in the cities and in beautiful areas. They will be chauffered around in big luxury vehicles and have a lot of peons to do all that they wish done.

The rest of us will be gathered up to live in the Goron voting cities, stacked up about 5,000 per square block. We will have electricity if we are lucky about 1 hour a day divided into two half hour slots. We will have water rationed, clothing rationed and live on soylent green. There would be minimal medical care because the loss of thousands or millions would be good for the environment.

This is why they have practiced rural cleansing for 2 decades and hate so called urban sprawl.

[Tall_Texan]

The networks kept dragging out Clinton's Energy Secretary Bill Richardson to condemn the technology and the government's response mechanisms to the crisis.

I kept waiting for somebody to ask him what the hell HE and did about the problem, since he served as Energy Secretary under Bill Clinton all those years. Alas, the commieleft media never bothered to ask, and frankly I wasn't surprised.

[hoosiermama]

We have alternatives. Look into Ballard fuel cells. Canadian company with many facets.