P-BO is attempting to seize the day on the BP oil spill. But he is not seizing the day to “plug the damn hole” or mitigate the disaster in other useful ways mind you. No P-BO is seizing the day and using the worst man-made environmental disaster (Mt. St. Helens is the worst overall disaster in my mind but not man-mad– wait maybe Bush did that) in the history of the use of the US to push a green agenda.
As the hocus pocus on man-made global warming collapses under the weight of the scientific scandal at the University of East Anglia in Norwich where “scientist” were encouraged to fudge the figures to support the notion that the Earth is warming at a dangerous rate and it man’s fault. But it is not just any man’s fault. It’s a white man with a car, house, job and western diet’s fault.
See China and India are much dirtier environmentally than the US and doing squat about it. While the US wrings its hands over clean energy, China builds three new coal fired electric plants a week. While the US wastes billions on a useless cash for clunkers program, Indian drivers are lashing their transportation together with duck tape, chewing gum and bailing wire to get a few extra mile out it – pollution be damned.
It is not just the East Anglia dishonesty that is catching Global Warmangers by the short hairs. The Earth itself just will not cooperate. There has been no global temperature increase in the last 10 years. Given the extent these “scientist” are willing to go to distort and lie about data, one must wonder if we’re on the brink of a new ice age.
Eviro whackos insisted on moving off-shore drilling platforms out 50 miles and into waters that are more than a mile deep. Then P-BO acts surprised that when something goes wrong – as it always does. What? There is a problem plugging “the damn hole?” Yes this is one bright guy. An oil well explodes under a mile of water (killing 11 workers by the way least we forget) and P-BO acts as if plugging “the damn hole” should be like putting the stopper back into the bathtub drain.
P-BO is not one to let an environmental disaster go waste though. He is demanding that we turn to green energy to solve all of our problems. It will not work. By his own estimations, P-BO knows it will not work.
See if this seems logical to you:
P-BO claims that business is corrupt and driven primarily by profit.
P-BO claims that not only will green energy save the planet but is an economic winner.
If business is corrupt and driven primarily by profit, and green energy is an economic winner, why aren’t corrupt, profit driven private businesses investing billions into it?
Simple, it isn’t profitable or economical yet. Solar and wind are unpredictable and expensive power sources. If you covered every available acre of the US with a solar panel and a wind driven turbine, you could not off-set 10% of US energy demands.
Now, let’s just say it was all feasible. Who do think would get to a solution of abundant green energy first; success driven, money grubbing, corrupt capitalists who would throw their own mothers under the bus to make a dime and who could make billions off of the solution or a bunch of back biting, lazy, corrupt, politically correct, sloth like, bloated federal government bureaucrats?
P-BO cannot have it both ways. If he is correct in his stupid characterization of private business, business would have solved the green energy thing decades ago. So either he wrong about business or he wrong about the profitability of green energy sources. I think he’s wrong about both.
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The History Channel recently ran a series called “America-A Story of Us”. The discovery of large oil fields and the invention of the light bulb saved the whales. I thought it interesting that today we cannot harvest whales, drill for oil on land, develop new electric grids, build new nuke plants, and now we have a temporary end to offshore drilling. T Boone Pickens said last week, 100 years from now the US will be known as the biggest idiots ever because we did not develop natural vehicles cars on a massive scale before year 2000. We have three times the natural gas of the Middle East. By the way, Pelosi said a few months ago that the US needs to get away from hydrocarbon based fuels and use more natural gas. Okay, she is an idiot. But even I can connect these dots. The US should use natural gas as a transportation fuel. This pres says we need a comprehensive energy bill. Based on the Healthcare and the Stimulus Bill we are in trouble. I am sure it will have the appointment of a blue ribbon committee to determine how we can grow sperm whales to adulthood in massive quantities in less than 30 days, then be harvested, mixed with corn grain, and shipped to bio-diesel plants in Ohio for processing to whale-ethanol. Pickens is right.
The Griffin.
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