Very interesting. And how much energy does it take to build the materials for a zero carbon home compared to standard dwellings? And how long does it take before it needs upgrades that require more such materials to be made? Is there any possibility that it might be like corn derived ethanol in the US, where it takes a gallon of petroleum to produce a gallon of ethanol?

And what politicians and AGW touting celebrities have such houses? Why don’t they? Could it be that they are nasty places that only the uncouth deserve? And there are indeed dwellings that are zero carbon–cardboard boxes and mud huts; the Third World is filled with them.

But that it seems is the new class struggle, the politically connected rich trying to drive the middle class down to the ranks of the poor. But perhaps I have not stated it correctly. To be rich does not necessarily make you politically connected, but to be politically connected does make you rich. The Network provides, whether it gives you a six figure salary for a no-show job or $50,000 dollars for giving a twenty minute speech.

Money and political power are convertible. With sufficient money and knowing where to shop you can buy political power. And with political power money will flow to you in measure with that power.

There may be indeed some wisdom to the leftist notion of killing the rich people, but I personally would restrict that to the people who became rich because they were politically connected.

You tell me there’s an angel in your tree
Did he say he’d come to call on me
For things are getting desperate in our home
Living in the parish of the restless folks I know

Deep in the woods the squirrels are out today
My wife cried when they came to take me away
But what more could I do just to keep her warm
Than burn burn burn burn down the mission walls