Posted by
Average Voter on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 7:17:33 PM
Last week our buddy Al Gore gave a speech in Washington DC. Here are just a few quotes of doom and gloom from
his speech.
1) I don't remember a time in our country when so many things seemed to be going so wrong simultaneously. Our economy is in terrible shape and getting worse, gasoline prices are increasing dramatically, and so are electricity rates. Jobs are being outsourced. Home mortgages are in trouble. Banks, automobile companies and other institutions we depend upon are under growing pressure.
2)The climate crisis, in particular, is getting a lot worse - much more quickly than predicted. Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months. This will further increase the melting pressure on Greenland. According to experts, the Jakobshavn glacier, one of Greenland's largest, is moving at a faster rate than ever before, losing 20 million tons of ice every day, equivalent to the amount of water used every year by the residents of New York City.
3)Two major studies from military intelligence experts have warned our leaders about the dangerous national security implications of the climate crisis, including the possibility of hundreds of millions of climate refugees destabilizing nations around the world.
4)Just two days ago, 27 senior statesmen and retired military leaders warned of the national security threat from an "energy tsunami" that would be triggered by a loss of our access to foreign oil. Meanwhile, the war in Iraq continues, and now the war in Afghanistan appears to be getting worse.
5)And by the way, our weather sure is getting strange, isn't it? There seem to be more tornadoes than in living memory, longer droughts, bigger downpours and record floods. Unprecedented fires are burning in California and elsewhere in the American West. Higher temperatures lead to drier vegetation that makes kindling for mega-fires of the kind that have been raging in Canada, Greece, Russia, China, South America, Australia and Africa. Scientists in the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science at Tel Aviv University tell us that for every one degree increase in temperature, lightning strikes will go up another 10 percent. And it is lightning, after all, that is principally responsible for igniting the conflagration in California today.
Did you notice that I just copied the first five paragraphs of his speech? What as downer!
And here is his solution...
The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels.
Why didn't I think of that? It all makes sense! Stop using carbon based fuels and Jesus won't need to return to establish peace on Earth!
Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.
What can you say, other than his idea is just plain stupid. That is really all that has to be said...right? Even if every citizen in the entire U.S. agreed that we should do that, the other environmentalists would prevent it because some half extinct gray-bearded prarie squirrel would be harmed. Al Gore couldn't convince those lunatics to give up on the squirrel.
How about our 9% approval rated congress? Do you think they could even get something like this out of commitee in ten years? Who in the democratic party is going to push this through when they are beholden to the prarie squirrel-loving enviromentalists.
Here is another one. Concerning all this wind that could be harnessed in the midwest to produce energy...is the government going to condemn citizens property so they can set up the millions of wind turbines that would have to be placed on that land to make that power? How much is that going to cost? How long will cases be in court with citizens sueing the government to stop the land grab? Where exactly do we grow our wheat and corn after you use all the land to mount turbunes? I could go on and on and on...
I think it is pretty clear that Al Gore is dreaming. To the average amercian citizen living in the real world, his idea sounds more like a nightmare.