Does Obama really want to save the environment

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The environment. That is one of the big topics on just about everyone's tongue these days. We know about the Global Warming hoax now. It is irrefutable. It is so irrefutable that it is no longer called Global Warming, it's called Man-Made Global Climate Change.

That is bad enough to deal with, but now we have President-elect Obama talking about “green” technology taking the place of oil and other fossil fuels for our energy needs. It is in his “bail-out” plan for the nation.

The problem is that Obama is willing to reduce our choices while not really improving technology for alternative fuels and energy. There is not much in there to reduce the red tape in getting alternative sources of energy on the grid. We still have environmental crap on the books that keeps even a windmill from being built.

Speaking of windmills, when it comes to choices for alternative sources of energy, we already have a ton of them. Now many of these alternatives are rather pricey on the front end, we do have those choices. Have you noticed the lack of promotion of these current and proven technologies by our government? Its because they don't do anything to “halt” the evil automobile.

Yes, you have all kinds of alternative choices for energy for your home and business. Lets see, there is geo-thermal heating for home and business. Yes, it is a proven method of heating and cooling a home and business. But do you hear our government promoting such heating and cooling systems? Now I wonder why that is.

Solar systems have come way down in cost and have gone way up in efficiency. They are still expensive to install but the payback is real, fast and significant. But do you see our government touting these systems or even using them in government buildings? No. Now why is that?

Windmills are highly efficient, well at least ultra clean ways to generate energy. So why is our government blocking wind farms from coast to coast? Oh sure, they can be noisy but no one said these farms had to be built near residences or businesses. There are a lot of wind farms in the planning stages to be located in remote areas and off shore but our government and environmental wackos are blocking them and keeping them from being built. Now why is that?

Hydro and geo energy plants are being blocked as well. We are more concerned about the fish than we are about energy. Geo energy is not viable in most parts of the country but in the areas that it is, new plants are being blocked by environmental groups. Trust me, the earth is not going to mind if we take a little of its heat and produce energy from it. But these wackos think we will harm the environment with these plants.

Instead we have our government touting things like ethanol. A fuel that has been proven to lower gas mileage in cars and trucks. Not to mention it cost a ton to produce and it takes valuable food sources off our tables and drives up the cost of corn and other food stuffs. How does that make sense?

Our government also want to ban incandescent light bulbs. True, fluorescent and other types of bulbs are more efficient than incandescent but what happened to choice? Not to mention if we actually implemented at least part of the Pickens Plan, we would take a lot of pressure off the environment but again we have government and environmental groups to thank for blocking much of this plan.

If our government was serious about conserving energy and coming up with alternatives, then why do they not use current and viable alternatives in government buildings now? Why do they not promote these alternatives by buying these green alternatives to be used by government employees? Do you see a fleet of of natural gas powered or electric powered cars in our government fleets? In fact, why don't we have a fleet of Prius cars in our government lots?

Because this environmental push has nothing to do with actually saving the environment or saving you or I money on energy. It has everything to do with controlling you and me and reducing our freedom. Seriously. When you have sources of energy that are clean and renewable already on the books and in use, why not promote them and use them? Think about it.

Then when Obama and his band of minions talk about saving the environment, ask them why we are not using any of these alternatives already. Ask them why they don't promote the use of such alternatives already. Ask them if they really want us to be energy independent or if they are just blowing smoke and making laws to control you and me. I think you will find it really is the later. Think about it.

Is it getting hot in here?

For the past 29 years or so, we here on earth have been told that at some point we will burn up. Yes, man would cause the earth to become a scortched desert much like the surface of Mars only much, much hotter.

Lets forget the fact that for at least a decade before 1979, children were learning in school all about the affects of Global Cooling and how mankind was to blame for it. In fact, I do remember a Dr Seuss TV special about just the subject.

In the TV special, Dr Seuss tells us a tale of the Lorax (you can see a short clip of the film here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pknssl52sh8) and how the Lorax, being very wise, was warning us of unchecked polution and destruction of the environment.

However, the Lorax was not warning us of hotter than hell days to come. He was, in fact, warning us of an ice age in which we would not be able to get out of. This was back in 1972. Why not ask a Global Warming alarmist about the days of Global Cooling. Many will deny such events but you can show them this childrens film to make your point in an entertaining way. After all, who can hate Dr. Seuss?

The point is there was a call back then to limit our choices. There was a call back then to increase our taxes to "fix" the problem. There was a call back then to force humans to revert to "simpler" times. In other words, give up your cars and most modern conveniences of the day.

To be fair, the railing against over consumption was a valid point. That point comes home to roost today in the form of our current economic problems. We have outspent ourselves. Many people have huge amounts of debt from over consuming products and services. And somehow, those who would wish to rule over us came up with the notion that all of this would lead to the destruction of earth.

Make no mistake about it, they mean to rule over you. The proof? Back around 1979 when scientist began to show that the earth was not cooling but actually heating up ever so slightly, they knew that their environmental extreemist ways were in danger. They had to come up with something to keep themselves viable int he public eye. So quietly, over time, Global Cooling became Global Warming.

Now, since the fact that the earth has actually cooled a little over the past decade or so, they are again changing their tune. Quietly Global Warming is giving way to Man Made Global Climate Change. You see this covers everything. No matter which way the earths temprature goes, they can blame it on the activity of man. They may have finally found a way to get your money and force you to give up modern conveniences that they deem to be unnessary.

But don't think for an instant that all environmentalist are on board yet. In fact you have some who try to lie and fudge the numbers to make things look worse than they are. We have people in our own government and government agencies that fall into this catagory.

NASA is lead by one of these quacks. Dr James Hansen, Mr. Al Gore's chief scientific advisore, is the head of the National Aeronotics and Space Administration's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and this guy has been on board for Global Warming for years.

There is an article; The world has never seen such freezing heat
By Christopher Booker (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/11/16/do1610.xml) that gives detailed information on how this guy was misleading the public on Global Warming. I am sure you have heard that October, 2008 was the warmest on record. When in fact, the proof across the globe is that it was actually one of the coldest months on record.

The lies of the left are all about one thing. Taking away your freedom and liberty. Telling you what you can drive and when you can drive. Telling you what kind of house you can live in. Telling you how you are going to raise your family and live your life. All in the name of saving the planet...which is obviously not in danger to begin with.

This Global Warming or better yet, Man Made Climate Change consortium is nothing short of Socialistic at best and Marxist at worst. This is all about power. This is all about taking the most powerful nations on the planet and reducing them to third world status simply because they do not like the USA and the West in general.

The Global Warmist think that the West uses too much of the worlds resourses and has too much compared to the rest of the world. So instead of helping nations who are poverty stricken, they try to reduce the west to the level of those third world nations by coming up with this Global Warming crap and all its incarnations.

This is nothing but a money and power grab. Hell, if the elarmist were serious about solving this crisis, then why do they block so many attempts to correct the problem such as building solar and wind farms? And why do they opperate huge sea craft and jet air craft to globe trot to spread their rot? Why do they drive SUV's on nearly every continent in order to spread their message?

It is not about saving the planet,people. It is about limiting your freedom and liberty. It is about controling your life to fit some twisted idea of what they think utopia should be.

Granted, it would be nice to have non-poluting cars on the highways of the world. It would be great to harness the wind and sun and geothermal for our energy needs. It would be fabulouse if we could power our homes and boats and planes and cars with water (hydrogen). The entire world would benefit from such things. I am all for those things. But when you have a bunch of hypcrites at the helm of this thing, you have to wonder why they are doing it.

Simply put, it is a way for them to scare the hell out of you. If they scare you enough they feel you will then willingly give up your liberty and freedom and let them run the show. How else do you think Obama got elected?

Enviromental Wackos team up to wack OH Energy company

Just when you think there is not much to cover on the front of Liberty and Freedom (as if there is never anything to talk about in this country as long as there are Liberals around) all I have to do is open up a local newspaper and just read inside.

Just one issue of the Nashua Telegraph of Nashua, NH has given me enough fodder to talk about for the next two weeks. Seriously. And that is is only on the first 6 pages of the small city newspaper. You see, I don't usually read newspapers. I don't have high blood pressure now and I know if I were to read the bull that most Liberal rags purport to be news, I would end up with sever high blood pressure.

OK I am being a little bit funny there. But I do not read many newspapers because I know of their bias from years of reading them in the past.

One of the stories that caught my attention is in the News Digest section on page 2. Here is what the little blurb said in part:

N.H. To get $1.2m in pollution settlement.

OK you might think that is a good thing. The state is getting money from a polluter to offset the cost of cleaning up a mess. Well you would be thinking wrong. Read on.

CONCORD (AP) – New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte says the state will receive $1.2 million fro a multi-state settlement reached last year with an Ohio power company.

The money comes from an October agreement with American Electric Power Company over smokestack pollution that drifted across Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. The case began in 1999 when eight states and 13 environmental groups joined the Environmental Protection Agency's crackdown on energy companies accused of rebuilding coal-fired power plants without installing pollution controls as required..

Yes you read that right. A company was sued by our government because they did not put some over regulated pollution control devises back in place when they up graded the plants that produce the very power that you, me, and the government uses.

Now who do you think is going to pay that settlement? You think an insurance company is going to pay? No. The reason is this is more like a fine but in order for the different state and federal governments to get a piece of the action it has to come down as a law suit. We the consumer will end up paying this bill.

Not to mention it will also cost this company finances to invest in new technology that would make using coal and other domestic sources of fuel a more viable and cleaner source of energy for all of us. After all we depend too much on foreign oil, at least that is what the left side of the political isle is always telling us.

The entire settlement will end up being $60 million to be distributed throughout the Northeast and parts of the Midwest for environmental projects such as improvements to building to make them energy efficient and investments in solar power.

Come on. Do you think any of that money is going to go to research and investment in solar power? I know for a fact it wont. If that is what they wanted the company to do then they would have just settled for the Ohio company to invest in alternative energy research and development. Or they could have forced them to invest in solar power by having them install solar energy producing panels and the like in buildings around the Northeast.

Instead, this was just a money grab no doubt led by the 13 environmental groups. You gotta ask yourself how many trees sacrificed their lives in order to make all the paper that this litigation needed? After all everything has to be written, stamped, mailed, etc on paper.

The environmental groups had to drive their cars which use gas made from oil in order to get to the lawyers offices and to get to court in order to try this case not to mention all the gas needed by those people serving the various legal papers to those involved.

You have to ask, how much did they destroy the environment by bringing on this law suit that could have been settled with a simple fine and proper administering of the fine money?

Don't think for an instant this was about protecting the environment. It was all about grabbing money from the big bad energy producers. The very companies that produce something we all want and enjoy. Electricity.

Designer Kitty Has Environmental Impact. Kyoto to follow

This is just a bit of a rant that is a bit off topic of liberty and freedom. Well at least in the fact that is has nothing to do with politics. But I guess it does have to do with business. And you could say it has a little to do with the environment and animals. So, yes, OK, I think that those wackos who are all for the animals would rise up and scream about this.

So even when I think I am not on topic, after thinking about it, I am on target and on topic after all. Now what has me shaking my head but looking out for the radical who wants to pass a law that would limit your choices? Well I ran across this story last week.

Well, I run across so much in a day that I cannot get to everything. I actually should think about having a radio or on line radio talk show. I could get through a lot more material then. But there is so much in a week that can and does affect and effect your liberty and freedom.

Even the obscure stuff like this story has a bearing on your life. The story is about a cat. Yes, I said a cat. A very expensive cat. In fact it is billed as the most expensive cat in the world. A cat that cost as much as a car. Actually a cat that cost more than many cars in the showrooms today.

This is a mixed breed cat. Its a mix of an African serval and Asian leopard cat with a domestic cat. Yes, this thing has wild cat, big cat running through its veins. And this is no little purring fluff ball. This thing can weigh 30 lbs. That is the size of a medium dog. Make sure you don't have mice in your home.

Can you see this thing chasing a mouse in your dining room? What about the furniture? It won't scratch the sofa, it will shred it. And the litter box. Oh my. That is an awful lot of cat litter every week not to mention the size of the litter box you will need.

So this means that because we will have a bigger domestic cat that we, as a nation, will use more natural resources. It will take more to feed this thing. Which in turn puts more stress on our fragile environment because we will need to take up more land to raise animals and grains to feed this huge cat.

We will use more chemicals because of what it takes to make kitty litter. Not to mention more landfill space will be taken up with the spend kitty litter. That will put stress on the environment and cause our landfills to fill up faster.

Lets not forget the added cost of furniture. Well, you will have to replace your furniture more because this thing is so big it would damage your sofa or at least shorten the lifespan of your sofa. So in order to keep up with fashion and trends and good looks, you would have to replace that sofa more often than you usually would. Again, adding to the landfill problem and causing more trees to be cut down in order to build the frames of the sofa and more chemicals to be used to make and color the fabrics and make the foam that cover and go into the sofa so you can sit on it.

Forget the fact that this thing will cost you around $30 thousand to get, it will cost you more in vet cost. It will cost you more in sofa cost. It will cost you more in food cost. And the environmental impact is just too expensive to even try to list here.

Plus the last but not least fact. What will happen to the wild cat population if we take the dna and transform it into domestic cats? Will we be thinning the wild cats that are already on the endangered list? How can we live with ourselves spending $30 thousand when there are children on the streets of the world starving and diseases that are killing innocent people around the world. There should be a law against such extravagance. We cannot afford to have cats like this. I predict we have only 50 years before the world ends because of these huge domestic cats. We must act now in order to save the planet. We must past the Kyoto treaty. This treaty will prevent the birthing of such cats and we will save our planet.

You know, the problem with the above is that for the logical mind, we know that I am only half kidding. That is the scary part. Oh, take a look at this kitty. It really is rather beautiful but costing almost as much as a small BMW, I think I will pass on this kitty.

Prius is not the Savior we thought after all

File this under what you see is not what you get. I have railed against the Toyota Prius before. It looks like I have good reason to. Well other than the fact that it is not as green as Toyota and the Environmental nuts would have you believe.

I have said that the Prius doesn't get as high an MPG as the sticker says. Which is really kind of funny when you think about it. The reason is because many cars exceed their actual mpg than stated on the sticker in the showroom.

The reason being that the auto manufacturers prefer to understate their mpg so when people actually get better, they are happy. Prius has been proven the opposite. The mpg as stated on the sticker of the Prius says that the car will get a combined 46 mpg highway and city.

Drivers are getting far less than the sticker. Test upon test and actual drivers are getting around 40. In fact, as I have stated in the past, that there are other cars that get the same or nearly the same with far less devastating environmental impact.

Not to mention the fact that when the cars came on the market, they were going for a premium price and there were back orders.

Now comes this. The BMW 5 series deisel beats the Prius in actual driving test. Yes you read that correctly. The not so small BMW 520d got a stunning 41.9 mpg vs the Prius at 40.1 mpg. This is made more amazing that the BMW is 500 lbs heavier than the Prius and it obviously is not shaped to get the best mpg possible.

The BMW is classified as an executive car, which means it is far from the compact category of cars. Unfortunately this automobile is not available in the USA but it should be. This begs the question do hybrids have a place in saving the planet or are they just over hyped vehicles that should not be on the car lots of the world?

The point is, we can build cars that do not damage the environment as much as the Prius does. We don't need laws to tell us what to drive or how to drive. The market works and I would say that if the BMW 520d were to become available in the US, it would be a big hit.

Will a Prius Free Us, or Doom Us

Here we are. The 5^th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of Iraq. And we still have lots of liberals saying that the battle, indeed the entire war on terror is nothing more than a war to control oil. It's all about the oil they tell us over and over.

They keep telling us we need to cut our dependency on oil that comes form the Middle East and elsewhere. They won't let us explore our own country for our own oil reserves even in areas in which countries like Mexico and Brazil are exploring. Yes I am talking about the Gulf of Mexico among other places.

They have convinced many people to downsize their cars and SUV's and they have even convinced many people to buy and drive the Toyota Prius. In fact they have screamed the praises of the Prius so much that they are now calling for the government to mandate that the rest of us begin to drive these “earth saving” cars.

They, the environmentalist, tell us that the Prius is a revolution in the storied history of the automobile. They praised this car. Told us how little fuel it used and that a person could get up to 60 mpg. People began buying these cars. So many bought them that there was a back order on them for the first 2 years of their production.

This changed the course of the mighty Toyota Corporation. They changed their goals for the Prius. Toyota has said they planned to have 1 million of these hybrid cars on the worlds road within the next few years.

Now I say hold a minute. What do we really know about this car? We know it doesn't get 60 mpg. In fact what is really happening on the road to the dismay of many is the Prius is getting about 40 mpg. Not a huge difference from some larger and better gas cars. In the Toyota line up, one can spend about half the price of a Prius and get a Corolla and get a consumer reported 35 mpg.

I know that one of my cars, the Scion tC gets me an average of 32 mpg and it has a 160 horse power engine. And it cost less than 18 thousand dollars. Not bad at all. But what is the total cost of this Prius that these loud wackos want the government to force us to drive. Well according to a number of reports (and growing) this thing is far from being environmentally friendly.

Environment NC is reporting that a Prius produces 44% MORE global warming green house gases over its life than a Toyota Avalon. And if you don't know what a Toyota Avalon is, it's the biggest car from Toyota without going SUV.

The Belmont Club reported just how bad the Prius is for the environment. And they have plenty of reports and listed documents to back up their article. In fact here is an excerpt from this article:

As already noted, the Prius is partly driven by a battery which contains nickel. The nickel is mined and smelted at a plant in Sudbury, Ontario. This plant has caused so much environmental damage to the surrounding environment that NASA has used the ‘dead zone’ around the plant to test moon rovers. The area around the plant is devoid of any life for miles.

Now what do you Prius owners think? You have help create an area on our own planet that NASA uses to train for roving on the Moon and Mars. That sounds like its a huge environmental friend, doesn't it.

Global Warming/Cooling/Change

The Environment – Global Warming.

Most of us older than say 15 or so probably can remember days when the snow came down heavy and snowbanks were so high you could sled down them. We can remember snowbanks so high that you probably could not see across the street from your living room window. We can remember blizzards that knocked out power for days and shut down schools for days.

We can remember when we had a white Christmas and a we can also remember when Halloween was so cold that most of us wore long john thermals under our costumes.

Yea those were the good old cold days. The days before Global Warming. The days when record lows were recorded often. Oh wait. Doesn't that sound just like the past five years?

Yes it does. In fact as I write this, the Mid West has some 1 million residents without power due to ice and snow storms. Much of the Norther United States will see a very white Christmas this year and some pretty hefty if not near record breaking lows is squeezing the heat out of Global Warming enthusiast.

Global Warming is no more absolute science fact as evolution is. (Yes, now you know where I stand on evolution but that is for another post.) In fact there is a lot of real and legitimate science that tells us man is not the cause of global warming and that the earth is not warming up abnormally. In fact parts of the world are getting colder.

We hear a lot about the northern polar caps melting. We hear that Polar Bears are drowning out in the open water because they didn't know that there once frozen solid hunting grounds melted away. What we don't hear about is how the Southern Polar cap is growing. What we don't hear about is how some nations north and south of the equator are experiencing bitter cold snaps. What we don't hear about is penguins in the south are flourishing because their habitat is growing.

None of that fits the mold. Pro global warming scientist conveniently forget to remind us that Greenland at one point in the past when it was discovered and named, was indeed green. Long before man began using fossil fuels.

These scientist fail to remind us that the earth has always had cyclical cycles in weather and temperature. Some 200 years ago, England was in the throws of what we call a mini Ice Age. Charles Dickens wrote some of his best works with a backdrop of London covered in snow. In order for that to happen, the earth had to change its weather patterns. This means that at some point before the Dickens era, England was warm and never saw snow. Did man influence that warm up and cool down? Of course not.

In fact there are so many scientists, climatologist, meteorologist, geologist, etc that do not believe there is any man made or natural global warming it would boggle your mind but you never hear about these prominent and very learned people.

Yes there is an agenda. The agenda is to take your freedom. The agenda is to tell you how to live. The agenda is to punish you for being a prosperous people. The agenda is to take your money. Why else would they be so adamant about an opposing view. After all isn't that what good science is about, looking at theories from all angles?

Of course it is. However, the global warming crowd does not want opposing views to be presented. They even go so far as to try and ostracize those who have opposing views. They often crowd the lecture halls where those on the other side speak and then yell and scream to keep the other view from being heard.

This goes to prove that their position is weak and feeble. Nobody who has a strong and truthful position has to use such tactics in order to keep the other side silent. What do the global disaster believers have to fear if their science is so fool proof and sound?

The point is they have plenty to fear because they know there science is not fool proof nor is it sound. The simple fact is that the sun, our sun, causes our planet to warm and cool depending on its level of activity. There are times when our sun is hotter than usual and there are time when it is cooler than usual. This is directly reflected in the climate of the planet. More activity, as we have no, means warmer temperatures usually in the north. Thus places that we know of as being covered in snow, begin to green up.

The dirty little secret is that when they places do green up and the snow melts away, we discover trails and villages and other human activity from centuries past. This means that these areas were warm at one point which goes to help prove that this current weather pattern is not dire nor is it unique.

In short, yes we humans have polluted. But, we humans are causing global warming. In fact if you Google, science against global warming or anything in that genre, you will get a plethora of sites giving, showing and telling you about information, proven science that disproves global warming.

If I were the leader of a nation, I would not sign onto the global warming band wagon and I would tell the United Nations to go take a hike. A real hike and have them explore the planet and see that man could not possibly be big enough to destroy our environment. But some people think they are big enough to know how you should live and they are fighting to take your money and your freedom so they can do just that. Global Warming is the weapon of choice that some in the media have been swindled into supporting.