ROB ROY #44

I think you give the libs too much credit for their spin – alot of the spoofulation of science is also due to their complete lack of understanding of science, math, and engineering….

Any concert or entertainment event encourages such waste, so I think the government should implement a $25 per ticket surcharge on all concert and movie tickets to pay for any impact on Mother Earth. I’m sure Hollywood, etc. would support such a surcharge to pay for the damage their lifestyle brings.

see-dubya looks an awful lot like Hank Snow

I’m one step above the average pajama-clad blogger: I’ve got the gold smokin’ jacket, with matching tie and toupee.

…maybe he was cloned in a government lab.

I wish they did clone Hank Snow. Would I rather have forty bazillion dollars spent on foreign aid to Tunisia, or a re-constituted Hank Snow?

Easy choice for me.

I do agree with you about using all our resource options AND improving efficiency. But what’s happening right now is that wind and solar are being cited as some magic bullet, as a diversion to claim we shouldn’t build central station power plants. This, a diversion that the proponents don’t wanna do the math for.

I agree with you here. I love windpower and whatever other power I can use. I don’t like being dependant. However our power companies have to produce more and more power every day and they need to get it at the cheapest most cost effective way possible. That includes Nuclear. I think we need a moratorium on regulations that prevent the search for cheaper fuels. Let the free market dictate. If coal or oil are winning then mine and drill. If a tesla coil or zero-point are winning then lets have the free energy. All restrictions need to be removed right now till we become as a nation energy independant.

JLP

I do agree with you about using all our resource options AND improving efficiency. But what’s happening right now is that wind and solar are being cited as some magic bullet, as a diversion to claim we shouldn’t build central station power plants. This, a diversion that the proponents don’t wanna do the math for.
There are places where one source or another works, and places where they don’t. The small, low density applications will NOT meet the demands of large cities, even with huge improvements in efficiency, etc. Not a reason to avoid their use, but also a reality check on what’s viable and ready for prime time.

Try to get an environmentalist or an Obama to actually say the words “yes, build the nuclear plants”. They always stop short and change the subject. They wanna pretend, and play to their developmentally arrested base who can’t run a calculator.

I was out in Iowa a couple weeks ago and saw numerous of these windmills. They are so freakish looking and perfect symbol of Orwellian liberalism. Iowa is a beautiful state, and then you come across those things blighting the landscape. Thank you, liberals.

I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I live in Iowa and I love them. They can keep a family independant of the energy company, and the surplus can be sold to that company. I think they are a nice conservative idea, and the liberals would worry about the “blight on the landscape.”

I am for whatever energy we can find to rid us of dependancy. Dependancy against foreign countries. dependancy against the government and its regulators. dependancy against power companies.