"President Barack Obama’s administration has thrown billions of dollars at wind, solar, ethanol, and other alternative-energy resources. Now the Fukushima tragedy is being used to justify continuing these economically dubious programs. We can bet that none of these alternative energies will easily replace oil, gas, and nuclear power in the foreseeable future.
At market prices, without public subsidies, a unit of energy produced by solar or wind in the US costs five times more than a unit produced by oil, gas, or nuclear plants. Moreover, supporters of alternative energies systematically downplay their negative environmental impact. A wind turbine requires 50 tons of steel and half a square mile of ground space. If California were to rely on solar power for its electricity consumption, the entire state would have to be covered with photovoltaic cells."
The End of Green Ideology by Guy Sorman - Project Syndicate
Monday, June 20, 2011
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Your thoughts are so short sighted. so glad that T Edison, AG Bell and a myriad of other inventors were not so short sighted. Oil and gas resources will not last this world forever, the world already consumes at a rate higher that sustainable even if not a single additional person is added to the population.
So now that we know you believe in man made global warming because fossil fuel won't last forever, can we assume you are also pro-choice (aka, a woman's choice to kill her child to save the earth for you), increasing encroachment of government in all areas except the bedroom, using 1) reusable grocery bags made in China with 2) the screwy lightbulbs you've put in your home to lower the cost of electricity Obama promised to increase, the redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the poverty class but tax breaks for crony capitalists in the green movement, biofuels in your modestly efficient car that cost twice what mine did, and if you're a Christian, you want to meet Christ's commandments about neighbors by taking from your other neighbors instead of using your own money?
Thought so.
John Bryson Obama's Commerce choice was a member of United Nations Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change (AGECC), and was also the CEO of Edison International, the giant energy utility. Now what's the link? Put the little, innovative green companies out of business so they can't compete with the big players.
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