The future of energy

Neil Cavuto is one of my favorite TV news people. On one show last week, he ran a brief clip of Senator Dick(head) Durbin, (d-IL), telling people that all the tornados and similar bad weather lately should spur us all to buy Chevy Volts. Because all the tornados, etc., are due to us burning fossil fuels, you see.

Cavuto was totally ticked off. He didn't joke, as he usually does. He just said something to the effect that Durbin's comment was probably one of the stupidest things he'd ever heard, and he wondered how blockheads like Durbin get elected. A question not far from my own mind.

Hey, Neil, Durbin's from Illinois, like Saul Alinsky, Ram Emanual, David Axelrod, Richard Speck and the Comrade. 'Nuff said?

Honestly, I'll take this one step further and ask: Why is wind and solar power -- and shall we add algae? -- supposed to be the wave of the future?

Why? Because Al Gore said so. Al Gore said lots and lots of things that are similar loads of crap. Since that British "scientist" admitted that his dog ate the documentation behind his gloomy-crytal-ball-future-climate-computer-model, there's absolutely nothing to back up claims that 1.) "global warming" or "climate change" are driven by human action, and; 2.) that "global warming" or "climate change" even exists. Period.

The weather changes all the time. Does climate? Well, the earth has entertained a couple ice ages and stuff like that. But if anything like that is happening now, it isn't reflected in the hard data collected around the world over the last couple of decades. There's been periods of goofy weather. Climate remains about the same.

The most recent geological surveys show that the earth -- and particularly North America -- has vast untapped resouces of oil and natural gas, both fossil fuels, as well as coal. Matter of fact, if you take a spin down the Pennsylvania Turnpike in western Pennsylvania, you seem to be driving between cliffs of coal, which are covered over with a kind of chicken wire to prevent it raining down on your head. The air even smells like a coal bin. Drive through Kentucky and parts of Tennessee, you'll see huge coal ledges outcropping from the soil along every hillside.

But solar and wind represent the future of energy?

In what universe?

Just the contrary, due to their unreliability and inefficiency, wind and solar were long ago replaced by fossil fuels whenever and wherever that was possible.

And as far as electric cars go (or actually don't go), if they run on electricity, in the USA they're coal-powered, aren't they to a very large extent? Until the geniuses at GM figure out some wind turbine beany type of arrangement, or solar panels, that can be fixed to the roof and geared somehow to run reliably to provide power for long distance transportation.

Wind and solar don't work very well. They chew up the landscape. They're ugly and often dangerous. They're inefficient and way to expensive compared to fossil fuels.

But the Comrade's vision of the future seems to be not much more than a kind of blown out, bomb-damaged kind of version of some ancient past. Either that or I suppose we could construct new homes and commercial buildings at least partly underground, which in most of the USA, remains a pretty constant 54 degrees or so. And hey, if we lived underground, we could probably dig and burn as much coal as we like and the feds will never know.

Sound like a plan?

Save the Republic.