Posted on 12/05/2021 4:37:49 AM PST by MtnClimber
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.
I’m waiting for all the electric ambulances, fire trucks, snow plows, and police cars to be immobilized because of dead batteries and no more coal or gas fired power plants.
You forgot School Buses. That will be an especially egregious (and ruinously expensive) iteration. Maybe that’s the point.
“Leftists believe in replacing what works, with what sounds good”
Thomas Sowell
I think this is a profoundly tragic example of his axiom in action. I recall hearing about some idiot bantering back and forth about this. Facts, logic, and reason aren’t enough. Keep in mind illiteracy is bad enough - but the inability to perform simple Arithmetic is also a huge problem (never mind Math).
After being patiently informed about the utter unworkability of the schemes envisioned, he just said something like “Well, fossil fuel is 100 year old technology. Isn’t it time to move on?”
This is the mentality we’re dealing with. Get rid of something before there is a viable replacement. That icky old stuff, it just ain’t stylish enough you know. They have no idea of the actual technical aspects, they don’t understand energy density, and they don’t have to pay for anything.
That’s how modern America gets a “transportation secretary” who declares that buying an electric car means “you won’t have to worry about gasoline prices ever again”. That is Weapons Grade Stupidity right there. He might not be that stupid himself, but his intended audience, and the newsreaders, and supposed academics most certainly are.
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.
Yup. And we’ll all end up burning wood to stay warm. I do that anyway.
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.
I seem to remember that ten or fifteen years ago there was a school superintendent in RI that zeroed out the snowplowing budget because global warming meant they wouldn’t need it. Then they had one of the snowiest winters in history. We live in the real world and the ones that run things live in Neverland
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
My thermo class in college was taught by a legitimate scientist. He had us work through the total cost and output of every possible “energy saving” scheme. None of them made sense even with the most generous assumptions.
My personal pet peeve is electric cars. The material for the battery is mined in dirt poor countries using child labor and water cannons. After the land is mined out it looks like the lunar surface and can barely support bacteria. The people went from poor to probably dead. When you figure the cost to the environment for the mining, transportation, the energy and environmental cost of refining and production, and disposal, the few nickels you save while driving the car are inconsequential. Then, there’s the fact that at the end of three, four, or even ten years, the cost of a replacement battery far out paces the value of the car and it gets junked years or decades before it would otherwise be junked if it was a “polluting” gas car. Then there’s the inconvenience of waiting for it to charge, finding a charge station and the possible rolling blackouts as the other unicorn poop planet saving technologies take long and unpredictable naps.
That’s the problem with these ecoenergy nuts. They think solar and wind power can charge all the EV batteries, run all the lights and A/C for their homes, heat their homes and still save the economy. This isn’t Star Trek and the Federation of the future. What they actually are future practicing Luddites because that’s the world they’re attempting to create inadvertently.
> “Leftists believe in replacing what works, with what sounds good” Thomas Sowell <
Great quote!
And unfortunately, those “sounds good” projects mean misery for everyone involved (except for the elites, of course).
None of which drive the economy....while blissfully ignoring the heavier energy needs of revenue producing endeavors.
I think you mistook what the author meant by woke capitalism. The author was referring to the nonsensical blending of POLICY driven capitalism as opposed to market driven. The market is responding via it's DULY elected representatives, not the deep state driven halls of power in DC.
... to say nothing of electric tanks, fighters, bombers, attack helicopters, and, of course, missiles.
BTTT
I can say, with certainty, that in the Northeast the grid is not prepared for that amount of load increase. Many lines are old and many areas are wooded and remote. There are nowhere near enough linemen, designers, and engineers to accomplish this work.
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