We have limited resources on this planet. It makes sense to preserve them for future generations, and I have devoted much of my life towards that goal.
Our children deserve clean air, clean water, healthy food, economic opportunity, freedom, open space, and an abundant supply of clean, low cost energy.
Waste not, want not
Bravo. Now someone tell the Malibu Warmists this! 🙂
I agree, which is why I support an extra $80 billion of public financed privately installed cost effective energy efficiency, funded by a $50/ton carbon tax.
And how much of that will be skimmed by the Bureaucracy and Banksters. Government is NEVER more cost effective than private industry.
The whole thing is a giant financial scam. A bubble that is about to burst. Think of the billions of tax dollars funneled into the pockets of the elite via ‘failed’ Green corporations or tax payer/consumer $$$ funneled to large land owners who lease to wind/solar farms (Queen Elisabeth being the biggest) A Royal Family Energy Windfall
This is an entire ‘market’ based on nothing but hot air. Al Gore has already made his $$$ and left the market so you can figure it is about to go bust.
Gail wrote: “Government is NEVER more cost effective than private industry.”
That is why I said “public financed privately installed cost effective energy efficiency.”
There are 10’s of millions of poorly insulated homes and apartments that will never be insulated without public subsidy. Waste not want not.
JP, you are projecting.
Why is it the public’s responsibility to insulate every home?
Johns Manville R-13 Fiberglass Insulation (32-ft L X 15-in W X 3-1/2-in D) is $12.80 a roll. Forty rolls will insulate a 30 ft X 24 ft home, walls and ceiling for ~$500. You can insulate just the ceiling for ~$250. That is less than a can of coke, a bag of chips or a cup of coffee a day.
If you need to blow insulation into the walls
GreenFiber 40-sq ft Cellulose Blown-In Insulation is $10.32 (FREE 24 hr. blower use with minimum purchase.)
So the walls are $230.00.
If someone wants to insulate they can easily afford it if they own their own home already. Just cut out the junk drinks and drink water instead. Do the attic the first year and the walls the second.
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If YOU want to insulate someone else’s home then be my guest but don’t expect me to foot the bill. I have already paid for raising a family I never even met! The US government’s job category of Welfare Mother where a woman can earn more money popping out babies than by getting a job is the reason we are in this mess in the first place.
The hardest thing about being an environmental hero is “how do you fake the false modesty”?
Think about it.
Oh, my gosh! You mean I’ve saved the planet 17 times today, and it’s not even lunchtime? But, who’s counting….
The walls in the original part of my house are real 2x4s with plaster & lath walls. At some point it was blown full of cellulose insulation. Over time it has settled so it’s time to blow some more I guess. Can’t get anymore fiberglass in the attic. Full to the top of the real 2×10’s. Windows are new and efficient and all voids in the framing filled with foam. But I still have more to do. Being in a semi-rural environment with a large field across from me to the west and more fields to the east the winter hawk can really get to screaming around here.
What does a carbon tax have to do with Clean Air or Clean Water? You are truly a fool, or a troll. But, I repeat myself.
You’re taking the piss, right Bob?
You do not agree at all. The post said I want to… You said YOU want ME to……
Why have a carbon tax? Carbon is good.
Because, even at 100% the income, sales and ‘sin’ taxes aren’t enough to sate the gluttonous beast that is modern ‘government’.
I would start with Our children deserve freedom. As long as there is no freedom the rest is of no importance. At the moment we are just Slaves.
http://youtu.be/mJMSZoM78QU
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf
As long as Big Al and Leonardo have their private jets and can parade around as some kind of Hot Shit, that is all that matters.
I’ll drink to that Steve, all day long with a congenial partner. 🙂
But I’m more of a Julian Simon or a Borlaug than an Ehrlich. I reckon if we can get out of the shackles of political correctness & corrupt science, indeed anti-science, which confine us, we can get human ingenuity & inventiveness moving & find better & cheaper ways of extracting the resources we need.
First major obstacle is the control freak coward bureaucracy, intent on strangling any attempts at self reliance. Second is the psychopathic & sociopathic banksters running & ruining this planet.
I’m 3/4 through reading ‘Pawns in the Game’ by William Guy Carr, which gives historical background to the rise of the Bankster class. An eye opener.
Any feedback mucho appreciated.
OH neat a new book to read and the birthday is coming up…
Enjoy, Gail.
& do please let me know what you think.
Cheers,
JD.
Roberttv- I cannot agree with your statement that we are just slaves, although unfortunately we are moving in that direction.
I know people who have become U.S. citizens from eastern Europe, Russia, and a few other places.
One thought that seems to be common to them was expressed by one from Russia, ‘You really do not understand, sometimes I like to stand outside, just smile, and drink in the freedom!’ ‘It just feels so good’
Freedom allows us to write here, and part of what we are trying to do is maintain that freedom and not let it be gradually eroded.
However, A problem that is happening too much is that we are losing sight of the fact that freedom means self-reliance, personal responsibility, taking charge of our lives. If we do not take charge of our lives, others will.,
We are serfs but we just do not know it.
50% of the cost of a loaf of bread (Reagan, 1975) is taxes and that is just the start. The government in the 1980’s was taking about 80% of my income in the 1980s when I figured out all the hidden taxes. On top of that we buy our homes and transportation and schooling and even our clothes and groceries using credit. Even if you pay off the balance every month the merchant pays the bank 5% and passes that cost to you. Only 3% of US money is actually cash. 97% is handled by banks and they skim a percentage off the top.
The Obamacare law had a clause that would require all businesses to report (1099) any purchases by a single vendor that was over $500 a year. However credit cards were exempted. This would force all businesses to either go credit card only for purchases and sales or do massive amounts of paperwork for the IRS.
If over 80% of your labor goes to pay the government and the banks, are you really free or just a free range serf?
2009– Year of the Slave
As I said we are serfs/slaves For the moment well treated but serfs/slaves none the less. Tick off one of your ‘Masters’ and you will find your ‘freedom’ is gone. Tangle with the legal system and you will find there is no Rule of Law, just the rule of the powerful.
I’ll go with Patrick Henry “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, Give me Liberty, or give me Death!”
And note the Department of Defense holds up these men as examples of EXTREMISTS.
Heh. Do not forget that the nose of the camel into this tent started with the trifecta: Harrison Narcotic Acts, the Federal Reserve Act (Bank of the US, III), and the two-fer 16th and 17th Amendments, which completely altered the relationships between the States and the Feds and the people and the Feds.
Well, I got three out of the four. I missed Harrison Narcotic Acts.
Does this look like FREEDOM ?
http://youtu.be/XvT40xUr50k
Although I certainly think it is rational to conserve, (I buy used and direct from individuals as often as possible.) E. M. Smith (chiefIO) reminds us that matter is not created or destroyed just transformed. —There Is No Shortage of Stuff — So we should not allow the rational idea of conservation to be used as a whip like ‘environmentalism’ is being used.
Correct. The two limiting factors are energy and human life-time, of which energy availability and usage contributes to our maximizing the time (up to the 120 year hard limit).
Economics will determine what, and how much, energy mix we use, not sustainability.
Right now there are areas in the Gulf, off the Florida and California coasts that are off limits to drilling. How long do you think they will stay off limits? How high does the price of gasoline at the pump have to get to before citizens demand that these areas be drilled up?
When you see the electric bill come in each month higher and higher, when are you going to demand the use of cheaper coal? And when the price of coal starts to climb, when will you demand the building of nuclear plants? When it comes to staying warm or keeping money in the savings account, climate change worries will always take a back seat.
Windmills and PV are not in the mix. They are not economically sustainable.
I say PV should be in the mix…on an individual level. Use it for things that don’t matter, much, like yard/garden lighting, out buildings and such. This accomplishes two things…it lowers one’s overall consumption of grid suppled power AND the individual decides how much to spend/what the benefits are.
PV has uses in niche markets. I like them for traffic lights in case power goes out so the town does not have to divert police to traffic control.
I also like them for electric fence chargers.
I really like the solar fence chargers… 😀
Tomorrow earth may be struck by an asteroid or comet and we will all be gone including the grandchildren. The market place will provide energy and other resources in the most efficient and cost effective manner if the elite masterminds would just get out of the way.
Sanity at last.
If they had gotten out of the way back in the 1950s we would have Thorium Nuclear up and running and petrochemicals could be used for useful things like chemical precursors of plastics, fertilizers, medicines…..
Instad India and China will take the work of American Scientists, patent it and sell it back to us. Of course that will make William ‘interdependence’ Clinton happy.
Amen, amen to that.
Although trying to prevent waste is a great thing one can only make the resources last so long. Sooner or later we either leave this planet to go where they are and/or develop the technology to make what we need, or we die. One thing I’m pretty sure of is that it won’t be the government that comes up with most of the solutions. It will be a combination of real scientists doing real research and experimentation and smart people working on their own concepts in some garage or shop.
Speaking of clean, affordable and abundant water, scientists have known for decades about the California 40 year drought. The last time California had a drought this bad was circa 1976-1980. But, California had 15 million fewer people. The people of California had 40 years to build enough de-salination plants to offset these droughts. But, I suppose they had better places to spend their money.
Yeah, the same place the politicos that ruined New Orleans spent theirs.
I like clean energy and support the Molten Salt Reactor. http://www.energyfromthorium.com
Some of the ‘future generations’ don’t make the grade…
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Then Jesus says to them,
Children, have you any meat?
They answered Him, No.
And He said toward them,
Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and you shall find.
They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.