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Thursday, May 21. 2009

Why is everybody always shooting at Joe Biden?

Krauthammer is Obama's most effective critic

Good news: gun control on shelf

Car crazy. A quote:

We wish these folks luck "working together" with the Obama auto-design team. One thing seems certain by 2016: Taxpayers will be paying Detroit to make the cars Americans don't want, and then they will pay again either through (trust us) a gas tax or with a purchase subsidy. Even the French must think we're nuts.

Would somebody please explain to me how electric cars reduce fossil fuel use? Since, thanks to the enviro-nazis who block nuclear power, our electricity comes mostly from coal...

Insty:

REASON TV: All The President�s Newsmen: Should Obama Bail Out the Press? Why not? They�ve done it for him already, and he no doubt figures he�ll need their services again. . . .

Via Theo:

'It doesn't matter if the planet is cooling and plants need it to live. We still have to ban carbon dioxide.' - Henry Waxman

"Ban carbon dioxide"?

Via Mr. Free market: Why I drink.

Rush resigns leadership of GOP; hands reins to Colin Powell

The report on the Irish Catholic gulag. This is beyond shameful.

MIT: We're all gonna die. Despite 10 years of global cooling, computers insist on apocalypse. Doesn't direct observation trump computer modeling? I guess not. How come nobody is paranoid about Hal living in those MIT computers?

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'It doesn't matter if the planet is cooling and plants need it to live. We still have to ban carbon dioxide.' - Henry Waxman

That has to be the most ignorant statement ever made. Isn't this the ass who is heading up that cap and trade legislation? This is the guy who looks like he's from Whoville.

#1 sean on 2009-05-21 09:49 (Reply)

Henry Waxman, chair of Commerce and Energy, is opposed to both.
Electric cars could reduce use of fossile fuels if we could generate electricity easily by other means -- solar, wind, hydrogen fuel cell, hydroelectric, nuclear. Since the environazis have demanded all of these except nuclear, and then blocked a lot of the projects, we will not get electricity from the supposed renewable sources.
I have read that the energy required to charge a car and run it for 100 miles by electricity is actually less than the energy to run it on carbon fuel. The real problem is range and recharge time. We can't field a battery that will take me from Billings to Bozeman and back on a cold day while allowing me to recharge and go out that evening. Solve that and maybe we have electric cars.

#2 Geoff on 2009-05-21 11:37 (Reply)

Of course it's less energy. I won't carry anything and it goes 35 mph.

#2.1 bd on 2009-05-21 11:43 (Reply)

I don't have a source at my fingertips, but as I recall the article (maybe from Cecil Adams at Straight Dope?) it was apples-to-apples, that is, comparing sedan to sedan of about the same weight and features. The energy to produce the electricity at the wall can come from a non-combustion source. Even if it comes from a combustion source, the energy footprint is supposedly smaller than the direct burning of hydrocarbon fuel.
The reality is that carbon dioxide won't be toxic in the atmosphere until it's about 100 times current levels or maybe an order of magnitude higher yet. It won't affect the earth's temperature until about that point. And we can get all the hydrocarbon fuel we want, really. But all resources should be used efficiently.

#2.1.1 Geoff on 2009-05-21 13:22 (Reply)

Environazis don't like wind (kills birds) or photovoltaic (very often produced in china at huge enviro costs).

In general they'd tell you to sit in your cave and burn a torch... except that has a negative carbon footprint too.

#2.2 Spork (Link) on 2009-05-21 12:11 (Reply)

Excellent history lesson - Jewish Nakba

http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2009/05/ben-dror-yemini-the-jewish-nakba-expulsi/index.shtml#more

#3 mal on 2009-05-21 11:42 (Reply)

I can't find an original source for Waxman saying anything that cosmically stupid. Does anyone know where that came from? It's getting quoted all over the place now.

#4 Texan99 on 2009-05-21 11:59 (Reply)

Tex,
Hunted around myself for that and couldn't find an original authoritative reference. I did find this by Waxman though:

We're seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point - they have lanes now where ships can go that couldn't ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there's a lot of tundra that's being held down by that ice cap.

Amazing how far an idiot can go in this country.

#4.1 KRW on 2009-05-21 21:22 (Reply)

Seems a northern shipping route would save tons and tons of fuel. That's a good thing. As far as more tundra, that's great because we could move all the ungulates of Anwar to the new tundra and get us some liquid gold from Sarah P.
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#4.1.1 Meta on 2009-05-22 12:59 (Reply)

A discussion thread on another blog [Neptunus lex] is full of commenters saying that it would be better to hang on to your old car and repair it rather than buy a new one built to these basically non-achievable requirements. The commenters also note that there could be a thriving market for older, well-built cars built to simpler, more achievable standards. Less stuff to break, simpler to repair.

But-but-but .... the Obama dreamers want you to buy new cars, powered by busy little squirrels in cages. Or a cute little windmill on the top of the car. Or a reeelly long electrical cord attached to an outlet in your garage. They're counting on it. Our whole economy depends on it. Do it, dammit, or we will keel you! Or tax you to death, which is the same thing.

Marianne

#5 Marianne Matthews on 2009-05-21 13:55 (Reply)

Geoff, you little carbon dioxide generator you, [every time you breathe out] Don't tell me you've fallen for the biggest scam of the 20th century. Carbon dioxide is an essential gas, like oxygen, not a pollutant, except in Gore's disturbed mind. Without carbon dioxide, we'd all be living in a sandbox, for the short period we'd still be living at all. All plants, let me repeat, all plants require carbon dioxide as fertilizer. Lucky for the plants, all living landbased creatures that breathe keep exhaling carbon dioxide, every time they breathe in air.

It's called 'the balance of nature' by every one except Democrats. They say, "It's a disaster! Let's tax it."

Marianne

#6 Marianne Matthews on 2009-05-21 14:03 (Reply)

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