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Fortunately for us, modern-day weapons do not need electricity to function.

One trend forecaster predicts we will be living like Mad Max before the end of Chairman O's first term.

Doubtful, but it is probable our standard of living is about to take a body blow. Especially if Al Gore is installed as Climate Czar. Remember, Chairman O said that Americans don't deserve SUV's and comfortable homes.

Sorry, just can't wait for teh Open Thread: City of Detroit (a.k.a Mogadishu West) asks for $10 Billion Bailout.

That's $3 Billion more than California wanted.

Here comes the eco-nazis under the green swastika and along comes the greenshirts taking away your air conditioner,your incandecent bulbs,your heaters,wood burning heaters,SUV, and others had you freeze in your puny little place all in the name of some CO2 stuff and this GLOBAL WARMING poppycock bull kaka and they force you to worship their pagan deity GAIA. SCREW THE GREENS SCREW THE BICYCLING GRANOLA MUNCHING TREE HUGGING GREEN EVIL NAZIS

MAX MAX? Cool, I will add a nitrous system to my car and fill the trunk with huge gas tanks. Toe Cutter, Night Rider and the Great Humungus - Warrior of the Wasteland better watch out! Unlike Max I'll have more firepower than a sawed off shotgun.

EARTH WORSHIPPING GAIA FREAKS NOW DICTATING TO YOU AL JAMES LOVELOCK IS A SCREWBALL,AL GORE IS A HYPOTCRIT,DAVID SUZUKI IS A JERK,MARICE STRONG IS STUPID WATCH OUT FOR THE PAGAN EARTH WORSHIPPING WACKOS COMMING FOR YOUR KIDS BEWARE, BEWARE, BEWARE, SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK

Someone mentioned (I think it was on Moonbattery) that the whole idea of forcefully restructuring the electricity generation system is very, very reminiscent of the five-year plans and whatnot that surfaced in socialist regimes worldwide.

They are economically harmful, a great risk to the goal of bettering or even maintaining current living standards (not to mention supporting sustained economic growth) and, of course, no more than symbolic in addressing even the puported concerns they are aimed at.

In Australia we are perilously close to this: the emissions trading scheme planned by Ross Garnaut to supposedly create green jobs and green money as a means of restructuring the economy to address "global warming" was commissioned by the Rudd ALP and is quite possibly going to be passed into law. It entails a deliberate trimming of 1% off the GDP by 2010 and a deliberate 40% increase in electricity prices by 2012 - whereas conservative journalists (as opposed to liberal "journalists" who don't stoop to such lows as bothering to read the proposition before supporting it whole-heartedly) have noted that even the worst-case scenario under global warming entails no more than a 0.7% decrease in GDP.

Oh - and of course Australia's contributions to global emissions: 0.95% of the total. The plan largely rests on the nebulous concept of setting a good example for China and other significant emitters in the hope that they will follow suit and cut their own emissions, thus saving Australia from global warming. Yeah, like I said, it's symbolic.

Any attempt to restructure America's electricity supply system will result in no-doubt similarly hideous consequences to lifestyles of the populace in general for similarly symbolic non-gains in any other area.

And yet people are willing to support these things. Go figger. The triumph of liberalism is the definition of a Pyrrhic victory.

On a tip from Kevin R.

Posted by Van Helsing at November 13, 2008 7:02 AM

Just for clarification I think this is a different Kevin R to the one I was referring to in my post above. At least, I hope so.

Just for clarification I think this is a different Kevin R to the one I was referring to in my post above. At least, I hope so.
~mandible claw

I haven't got a clue as to what you're referring to. Someone wrote something to the effect that "the whole idea of forcefully restructuring the electricity generation system is very, very reminiscent of the five-year plans and whatnot that surfaced in socialist regimes worldwide," and you disagree with that position? I don't recall ever writing anything like that, but it sounds like a reasonable thing to say. As far as I know I am the only person that posts as Kevin R here. I don't understand what you are alluding to.