How the Government Mandates Inflation

or, “How the Government legislates Environmentally stupid laws and makes you poorer at the same time”:

The EnergyStar fridge costs $1329 and uses $41 of electricity per year while the conventional one costs $1029 and uses $48 per year. It would take about 43 years of energy savings to make up for the difference in cost between these two refrigerators. Many consumers might not think that’s such a good deal.”

This green lobby is out of control.  Why micro-manage production?  If, in Congress’ omnipotent view, all Americans should pay more for power, why don’t they just increase the price of energy?  The market will find the right payback for that, and Congress will have more money to fritter away, I mean, to explore more energy alternatives.

These laws are senseless, regressive and administratively horrendous for life and living.

Remember What They Did to Galileo?

Newsweek equates global warming skeptics with Holocaust deniers and accuses reputable scientists of being paid to create confusion in the face of consensus.  Read the review by Investors’ Business Daily.  It’s worth reading, unlike the Newsweek article.

UPDATE:

Aug. 20-27, 2007 issue – We in the news business often enlist in moral crusades. Global warming is among the latest. Unfortunately, self-righteous indignation can undermine good journalism. Last week’s NEWSWEEK cover story on global warming is a sobering reminder. It’s an object lesson of how viewing the world as “good guys vs. bad guys” can lead to a vast oversimplification of a messy story.

[Samuelson: A Different View of Global Warming - Newsweek Robert Samuelson - MSNBC.com]

Clearly an attempt to apologize:

Against these real-world pressures, NEWSWEEK’s “denial machine” is a peripheral and highly contrived story. NEWSWEEK implied, for example, that ExxonMobil used a think tank to pay academics to criticize global-warming science. Actually, this accusation was long ago discredited, and NEWSWEEK shouldn’t have lent it respectability. (The company says it knew nothing of the global-warming grant, which involved issues of climate modeling. And its 2006 contribution to the think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, was small: $240,000 out of a $28 million budget.) [Samuelson: A Different View of Global Warming - Newsweek Robert Samuelson - MSNBC.com]

As honest a review from the Left Wing journalism as I’ve seen.  But still in ultimate denial.

 

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IF GORE IS THE LEFT’S INTELLECTUAL, THEY’RE IN TROUBLE

I just finished reading “Assault on Reason” by Al Gore.  Wow.

I can usually read a book in about 4 hours.  I say this because I almost couldn’t bring myself to spend the time.  The good news is that I now understand Al Gore’s argument for global warming; he’s generally living on another planet with a whole sort of alternate reality evolved from a different set of facts and history than here on earth.  That single revelation helps me rest easier, and somehow makes the 4 hours less of a waste.

Here’s a pretty good review, since I am too frustrated to write one.  I also like this one by Michael Moynihan, “Free Speech for People Who Think Like Me.”  That is half our country now.  Scares the crap out of me.

Here’s some more thoughts by Henry Miller.

Just before we head back into the Dark Ages if we start listening to nitwits like Gore, read this.

Even a lefty moon bat can’t quite swallow all of it.  The funny thing is, the whole assault on democracy thing was fine, as well as the argument that the press (?) is all controlled by the right.  You have got to be kidding.  Oh never mind.

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