This reminds me of Obama’s complaint that Cheney only met with environmental groups once to discuss an energy policy but many times with officials from the energy industry. Nothing he or Al Gore has said is a better illustration of what’s wrong with their positions on energy.
They believe in centralized planning with economic outputs being commanded by Washington, rather than allowing markets to reach the most efficient means possible to meet our needs. Nobody has demonstrated that a modern national economy can be operated on solar and wind power. If it were feasible, the power industry would already be rolling it out.
The problem with the Apollo program was that there was no economic value to being the first to land a man on the moon. There is plenty of value in the technology it took to do it, such as reliable launch vehicles, satellites, etc., but until someone comes up with a better reason to land on the moon than winning a race or collecting a prize spending the money to do it looks more like an indulgence than an investment.
There is economic value in developing new energy sources, but not merely in wind turbines or solar electric panels, unless they become more cost effective than coal, oil and gas. If it is in response to a government mandate, if we’re doing it just based on satisfying radical environmentalists, it is not producing economic value, but a political end. We will find out that bureaucrats and junk science activists can never be satisfied, after pouring a lot of money into speculations.
If Global Warming is really a problem, we’ll know about it without needing computer models and arcane theories blaming it all on humans. GW alarmists have made so many dire predictions that one begins to believe the only solution is for the human race to go extinct. If that’s the case, and we accept these scenarios, the best thing we could do for the planet would be to speed up the process, die and make room for whatever comes next. Why worry about rising sea levels when we should all starve anyway? Sure, there will be mass extinctions, but there have been others in the past and life always comes back, from far worse crises than this one.
If we allow ourselves to be governed by the likes of Al Gore and the Sierra Club, we don’t deserve to be a superpower anyway, and it would probably be better if we just got on with adjusting to our new lower standard of living, and amend the Constitution to make environmentalist dictates exempt from its guarantees of freedom.
