Manure
It’s all about making the world a better place, but Boehner calls the big energy bill a pile of __it. Actually, it’s being reported as a “pile of s__t” at The Hill, where a Dem aide is allowed to yuk anonymously, “What do you expect from a guy who thinks global warming is caused by cow manure?”
I dunno, I thought the global warming scare was caused by horseshit.
One of the big objections to this tide-stopping Canute bill … once you get past the fact that human-caused global warming and its human-forced reversal are half-baked ideas when not actually fabricated … is that creating an artificial market to buy and sell exhaust, subsidizing feel-good R&D projects and creating burdens on ratepayers and actual economy drivers in the midst of a recession doesn’t make any more sense than trying to lessen the impact of that recession by using tax dollars to save do-nothing hack jobs … the other great initiative of our one-party government to date.
Setting aside the enviro-fearmongering, the proponents squawk a lot about reducing our dependence on foreign oil, and put this forward as a great foreign policy panacea. The problem with that is, if you actually managed to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, which is questionable in any reasonable time frame, you would also reduce our engagement and influence in a number of critical parts of the world where China would very much like to increase both its dependence and its influence. Eco-isolationism doesn’t make any more sense than plain old isolationism. Unless you feel very strongly that the United States should no longer be the world’s dominant superpower. There is one upside to that, theoretically. Everyone, especially the regimes in Russia, China and Iran, might like us better when we aren’t. But it’s more likely, when we’ve disengaged they’ll just laugh louder and rub it in our faces more, while the Euros take up their perpetual whine … why doesn’t the United States do something about it? The policy of this administration is to try to figure out how not to do things, how to disengage. If it is successful in that, the world will be better place … for the regimes in Russia, China and Iran. Plus North Korea, Syria and Venezuela.
Sooner or later, all that oil will be gone. Before that happens, the market … energy companies, manufacturers, auto makers … will have a keen interest in developing alternatives. But when that happens, currently strategic, worrisome and troublesome parts of the world will be less strategic, worrisome and troublesome, provided they haven’t been left to their own devices and the tender ministrations of some of the abovementioned regimes for 30, 40, 50 years.
My energy/economic salvation/foreign policy panacea? A V-8 engine in every driveway. Here’s how it works. Instead of buying GM, we as taxpayers should be given incentives to buy GMs. As long as we’re spending billions upon billions to save the economy and save the planet, let’s give every taxpayer … by which I mean people who actually pay taxes … a big fat tax break for the Ford, GM or Chrysler muscle car or SUV of their choice. Big enough that no one will care that if gas is $3, $4 or $5 a gallon … lot the people who work for a living, pay taxes, and are eligible for that tax break, that is. Big economy booster that will burn all that oil up quicker, and be a lot more fun than putting around in electric wieniemobiles like someone’s elderly aunt. The auto and energy companies can use the dough for the switchover to hydrogen, so we can keep driving around in V8s after the gas is gone.
It’s a plan I like to call V8s for Peace, Prosperity & World Embetterment. It’s the Green thing to do.
The news via the Wall Street Journal.
Malkin’s got your sell-outs. HotAir’s got your vid and running updates. The Other McCain blames the National Republican Congressional Committee. DirectorBlue zeroes on a Dem in red-state clothing.
Surber’s got Al Gore’s hockey stick. It’s the one he’s gonna get hitupside the head with … the fat-line graph that now showing an uptick in vocally skeptical scientists re warmalism.
Powerline: What Obama’s EPA doesn’t want you to know about global warming … anything that debunks it.
Meanwhile, Darleen Click’s got your Protein Wisdom on the beneficial side-effects of a big carbon footprint, and what life with a small one … no, not a faux small CFP, a real small CFP … looks like.
Blair on a terrible waste of trees … hey, maybe they could recycle all those unwanted copies of James Lovelock’s “The Revenge of Gaia.” Or send them here, I’ll burn them in my big CFP woodstove. Coldest June in living memory up my way, on the heels of all that snow. Talk about the revenge of Gaia … lay off, you old bag!
Related, TNOYF: Recycle Michael Jackson!
On the other side of the ledger, Whiskeyfire is delighted that Boehner has dropped, if momentarily, to WF’s level of political discourse. I can see how that would be exciting for WF and other lefty sites that are barely able to rub two thoughts together without squeezing out a lot of “shits,” “fucks” and “assholes.”
Topics: hacks, moronocy, warmalism
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:42 am on Sunday, June 28, 2009
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June 28th, 2009 at 11:26 am
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June 28th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Setting aside the enviro-fearmongering, the proponents squawk a lot about reducing our dependence on foreign oil, and put this forward as a great foreign policy panacea.
Which we could have done by drilling for, and developing, our own reserves years ago, while we worked on economically feasible alternatives to fossil fuels in the meantime. But, oh hey, who was it squawked about that solution?
June 28th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
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July 5th, 2009 at 10:08 am
[...] In which Jules Crittenden trumps all the climate scientists: “I thought the global warming scare was caused by horseshit.” [...]