Archive for April, 2008

Happy Anti-Earth Day!

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Just kidding, or at least mostly – I’m not really "anti-Earth."  I just find it amusing that that is how I am portrayed by Saint Al and his acolytes.  As if, by being skeptical about catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (or CAGW, for short), I somehow want the Earth to be destroyed.  I just hate the planet, I don’t care if my children melt, I don’t care if people die – I just want my freaking oil!

Things are starting to get bad with the CAGW agenda, and they are likely to get far worse in the near future.  The world is currently suffering massive food shortages due to, among other things, the deliberate burning of our food supply to make ethanol, which was championed by CAGW advocates.  Fuel prices are at record highs in large part due to environmentalist opposition to new drilling, new refineries, and nuclear power.  Governments are passing fascistic laws doing things like banning light bulbs, mandating absurd fuel standards, and imposing all sorts of controls and penalties on people who dare to exist and desire a decent lifestyle.  Dissent is being actively silenced, skeptics are being targeted and smeared, the media is blindly parroting the most absurd and fantastical disaster predictions, children are being indoctrinated by Al Gore’s movie, and far more.  And with all three presidential candidates buying into the CAGW scam we’re in for a lot more.

This whole thing makes me absolutely furious due to the entire agenda being based on lies, exaggerations, and agendas.  People are being deliberately deceived by activists and socialists who are playing on their good nature and fears to impose their agenda.  So much of what is generally accepted is patently false.  Polar bears aren’t dying, they are thriving.  CO2 and temperature have no proven relationship.  Hurricanes are not getting worse.  The Earth has been much warmer and much colder in the past.  The ice caps aren’t melting.  In fact, the Earth might not even be warming.  The whole thing is a giant scam using selective studies and spin to promote an agenda.

Luckily there is some reason to have hope.  Though most people claim to believe in CAGW, they have largely been resistant to accepting the most onerous of regulations despite the constant barrage of CAGW alarmism.  Not a single person listed global warming as their number one issue in November – pretty strange for something that’s supposedly going to kill everyone.  In the end of the day, I have to have some faith in common sense, and that most people will make token changes but won’t make big ones – this is being shown by emissions continuing to increase even in the Kyoto-signing countries.  I hope as people realize how many environmentalist predictions are false (increased hurricanes, increased droughts, sea level rises) they will begin to question the alarmists.  People like me and my compatriots will continue to fight to raise awareness and stop the most insane and dangerous actions.  It all begins with getting informed and explaining to friends and family the truth about the CAGW agenda.

On Lightbulbs

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

You’ve got to be worried about our country when it is necessary to introduce legislation entitled the Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act.  It sounds silly but I think it is a good example of how insane things have become, when we have to fight for a right as simple as choosing what type of light bulbs to use.  Government has become so powerful that they now want to tell you how to run your life down to the tiniest details.  I, for one, refuse to buy into this CFL nonsense, because I hate fluorescent light, and it is also claimed to be bad for migraine sufferers.  That’s in addition to the biohazard caused by breaking one!  This all is part of the global warming scam, so beware – this is just the beginning.

On oil companies and silly economics

Monday, April 14th, 2008

I just received on of those forwards about some strategy to supposedly reduce gas prices by forcing oil companies to lower prices.  Needless to say this got me riled up on this Monday morning.  Here is my response to the email:

This is a perfect example of the economic ignorance believed by far too many people and perpetrated by politicians to avoid admitting that the problem is largely due to government, much like most problems including health care and the current economic problems.

The basic premise here is that oil companies could easily reduce prices if they wanted to.  That simply isn’t true, because they aren’t making that much profit on a gallon of gas anyway.  They make about 8 cents to a gallon, while the federal government makes about 59 cents, in addition to state taxes. In other words the government, by reducing spending enough, could drop this massive tax and save you tons of money.  But of course, the government can NEVER do with less – but supposedly the "evil" companies should have to!

In fact I’d rather give my money to Exxon than the government, because at least they’re investing it in research and discovery.  Which raises another point, we have tons of oil here but we are not being allowed to drill for it offshore, in ANWR, etc.  The key here is STOP blaming corporations, who are simply providing you with an essential product.  Their profits are seemingly large at first glance, but not once you but it in perspective to the size of the company.  NO ONE has the right to arbitrarily say that certain profits are "unacceptable" anyway.  Please think about this more before you buy into this populist, anti-corporate foolishness.

Anyway, that’s what I sent.  Thanks to Sarah for getting me going on a dreary Monday and distracting me from the 5 million helpdesk tickets I have.