Yet Another State-sponsored Enviro-scam

So, I was looking up solar power generation, wondering about costs.  I won’t even bother talking about how expensive it is to install, never mind how much it costs to maintain.  In the process of this, I stumbled over a program being proposed by Consumers Energy (Michigan’s electrical provider) whereby if you generate electricity from solar power, you can sell this to the energy company, and the amount is deducted from your bill.

It is being proposed under the auspices of “green initiatives.”

The problem is, the whole thing is a MASSIVE scam perpetrated on the citizens of the State of Michigan.

Green Jobs Are the Answer!

My latest installment in the enviro-fraud being perpetrated on the American public: “green” jobs”.

The Cars Americans Want to Drive.

I’m sure you’ve heard the oft repeated phrase, “American auto companies aren’t making vehicles Americans want to drive.”  In the same breath, they’ll cite the fact that Toyota is selling more cars now than GM.  They also cite the better quality of foreign autos, and a number of other factors.

However, what they’re really saying is that Americans want smaller, more fuel-efficient cars.  This is in some part true.  However, this has more to do with the media’s hatred of the SUV.

When Fossil Fuels Ain’t.

I’ve known about this for some time now, but there’s a quiet revolution going on out there in the oil industry.  And in the end, it’ll probably destroy the “green energy” revolution.

It’ll leave a lot of kook environmentalists without their favorite catchy buzz-phrase.

This’ll Have Environmentalists Ticked!

The environmentalist tag-line is that drilling for oil damages the environment.  Yep.  If we drill for oil, we’re going to kill the flora and the fauna of the sea.

That works, however, until you see some of the benefits of drilling for oil.

This Is Not the Start of a New Great Depression.

Chicken Little has added an amplifier to his sound system in recent days.  There’s lots of talk that we’re sliding into a new Great Depression, because of the current financial tumult.  Yes, the start of the Great Depression is eerily similar to what’s going on now.  But the financial collapse in 1929 wasn’t what really caused the Great Depression en toto.

There were several factors, one of which – and perhaps the biggest hit America took – is generally overlooked.

Enviro-Fraud, Example #2 – The Electric Car.

So, I’m watching the McCain acceptance speech on Thursday evening, and what do I hear the man pull out as an energy promise?  The Electric Car.  I merely rolled my eyes.

One of the biggest frauds perpetrated by the environmental movement is the wonder of the electric car.  Not that an all-out electric car that matches the performance of a standard gasoline or diesel-powered vehicle isn’t possible.  It just isn’t possible over the next eight years.  Or, at least, I don’t see it.

Maybe it’s my bias.  But my bias exists for a reason.

Farming Hot Air

Before anyone gets an idea to the contrary, I’m all for developing alternative energies.  Seriously.  I don’t care if they if the electricity that heats my house comes from pig’s crap, or the oil that they make gasoline comes from horse hides – just so long that this country makes more of it.  I have better things on which to spend the money the government allows me to keep.  Ethanol is cool with me, so is bio-diesel.  If it’s cheap, allows me to drive more, and I can heat my house to eighty-degrees during the winter I frankly don’t care what makes it, or where it comes from.Wind power, however, probably has to be one of the biggest enviro-jokes ever played, with solar power taking the lead in this category.  And you know as well as I do that there are some out there who actually believe that America can function with these two power sources, exclusively.  I think the nut-job environmentalists have ceded Solar as the thing that’ll save the human race from extinction (saving us from our greenhouse gas-producing, wasteful ways), and are now heavily pushing wind farms.  T. Boone Pickens is the latest uber-rich crusader trying to somehow “reform” his image by bowing down to people who want to bring the US to its knees economically.  He claims that America has the “best” wind (no doubt most of it comes from Washington DC and California), and that wind farms are a clean, environmentally safe way to meet our energy demands.  Wind farms produce no toxic fumes, are cheap to set up and maintain, and give us access to a virtually untapped resource. 

So, it seems there is nothing but upsides to this panacea, right?  Wrong.