Al Gore Spews Carbon!
Al Gore is big on reducing carbon emissions for everyone except himself (and family). Via Michelle Malkin. The best part is at the end.
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Let’s Not Drill Where We’ll Get All That Messy Oil
Sometimes a picture is worth a zillion words. Via Powerline.
The Frozen North
I received the following in an email from a friend who did not write it. I think it’s brilliant, but can’t give the author credit. If any of you know who the author is, please let me know so I can provide proper attribution.
FIRST, do you know what ANWR is?
ANWR = Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Wailing and Crying in DC
Excellent opinion piece in Investors Business Daily this morning:
Watching Democrat leaders in Washington respond to skyrocketing gas prices has been nothing short of a tutorial on the five stages of grief.
Weeks of conspicuous silence (denial). Lashing out at the oil companies, the White House, the markets, the oil companies again (anger). Repeated pronouncements that prices would stabilize at one point or another in the not-too-distant future (bargaining). The long faces trying to explain away their failure to pass a single energy bill that creates energy (depression).
Sen. Barack Obama topped it all off by saying he had hoped the rise in gas prices would have been a “gradual adjustment” so American families could adapt to the reality of four-buck gasoline. Acceptance.
For Obama, there is some cathartic value in paying four bucks for a gallon of gasoline. Tell that to the independent trucker paying $1,500 to fill up, or the school districts eliminating bus stops — or entire routes, for that matter. Tell that to the family that didn’t have the resources to carry out its travel plans over July Fourth.
On this issue, Washington isn’t just broken — it’s AWOL. Roadblocks to reform efforts have been reinforced by shopworn rhetoric and retread initiatives. Real initiatives have been supplanted by a mealy-mouth hodgepodge of supposed cure-alls, one more ineffectual than the next
The Dems were supposed to have such a good year then this nasty oil price thing comes rolling in. The party is in thrall to the eco-left and can’t win without them, but all these pesky voters aren’t willing to sit still and pay $4.00 for a gallon of gas.
Harry Reid is just sick about oil, coal, the whole thing.
55 - A Magical Number
Lame-duck Senator John Warner (R?!?-VA) has asked the Energy Department to investigate the potential costs and benefits of a federally-mandated 55 mph speed limit everywhere.
One of the problems with having a geriatric legislature of life-tenured incumbents is that its members spend a lot of time thinking about the good old days. From 1974-1995, an identical law was in force. This was a bad idea of Richard Nixon (who also imposed wage/price controls in a futile effort to limit inflation) designed to get the U.S. through an oil crisis.
This law was universally broken, beginning with mild violations along the Eastern seaboard and increasing as one traveled westward with the highest speeds generally present in Western states like Nevada (which “enforced” the national speed limit with a $5.00 waste-of-resources fine for a period of time).
The practical question for drivers was not whether they would drive 55 or not (everyone drove faster), but rather how much faster could they drive without receiving a ticket. 5 mph over was a safe bet everywhere. West of the Mississippi, 10 mph over almost never caused problems and 15 mph over was frequently observed.
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Global Warming as a Cult
Interesting letter in today’s Wall Street Journal - print and online - about the ways in which global warming is like a religious cult. This responds to Brett Stephens’ opinion piece entitled Global Warming as Mass Neurosis that I blogged about here. It doesn’t look like I can do a permalink to the letter, so I’ll reproduce it in full.
Here are the global warming movement’s cultic parallels, many of whose characteristics can be found in Walter Martin and Ravi Zacharias’s famous 2003 book, “The Kingdom of the Cults”:
(1) Leadership by a New Age prophet — in this case, former Vice President Al Gore.
(2) Assertion of an apocalyptic threat to all mankind.
(3) An absolutist definition of both the threat and the proposed solution(s).
(4) Promise of a salvation from this pending apocalypse.
(5) Devotion to an inspired text which embodies all the answers — in this case Mr. Gore’s pseudo-scientific book “Earth in the Balance” and his new “An Inconvenient Truth” documentary.
(6) A specific list of “truths” which must be embraced and proselytized by all cult members.
(7) An absolute intolerance of any deviation from any of these truths by any cult member.
Ultimate Carbon Rationing
We wrote about the new British plan for individual carbon rationing yesterday. Today’s online Wall Street Journal (subscription required) carries the following letter.
The British rationing plan doesn’t go far enough. The amount of CO2 each person is allowed to exhale should also be rationed. Those who overindulge would, of course, have to pay a carbon tax or have their air supply cut off.
Rationing Your Carbon Use
Here’s the latest cool idea from the geniuses behind global warming - carbon ration cards.
According to an article in the Daily Mail,
Every adult should be forced to use a ‘carbon ration card’ when they pay for petrol, airline tickets or household energy, MPs say.
The influential Environmental Audit Committee says a personal carbon trading scheme is the best and fairest way of cutting Britain’s CO2 emissions without penalising the poor.
Under the scheme, everyone would be given an annual carbon allowance to use when buying oil, gas, electricity and flights.
So what if you run out of carbon credits to heat your house in the winter? You buy more from someone who has more than they need! It’s cap-and-trade for individuals! Just what the British economy needs. [Read more →]
Why should the East and West coasts get a complete pass on drilling?
From the Houston Chronicle:
I haven’t got anything against the residents of Florida and California. They seem like friendly folks.
But as a resident of the Central Gulf Coast, I have to ask: Where do they get off, insisting that their beaches should be protected from the evils of oil and gas drilling and production?
2500 scientists can’t be wrong
Lawrence Solomon made a presentation at the Petroleum Club in Calgary and discussed the scientific consensus that global warming proponents are always talking about.
Let me tell you why most people think that global warming is a serious problem. It comes down to one number: 2500. That’s the number of scientists associated with the UN’s Panel on Climate Change that the press reports has endorsed the UN Panel’s conclusions. These are the conclusions that get released in the UN’s mammoth reports every six years or so, and that then dominate the media airwaves for weeks.
“2500 scientists can’t be wrong,” the press always says, explicitly or implicitly. Without that number, it would have no basis for the claim that they repeat over and over again — that there’s a consensus on climate change.
2500 is an impressive number of scientists. To find out who, exactly, they were, I contacted the Secretariat of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and asked for their names. The Secretariat replied that the names were not public, so I couldn’t have them. And I learned that the 2500 scientists were reviewers, not endorsers.
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