There is a hard-hitting essay by Kevin Meyer in the British INDEPENDENT. Meyer’s essay is titled “Energy Policy based on renewables will win hearts but won’t protect their owners from frostbite and death due to exposure”
It reveals the foolishness of those who are dedicated to “green energy”, especially in many European countries.
Meyers writes about a current crippling cold spell covering Europe along with severe blizzards ..one of which nearly crippled Russia in the past days. The Russian gas company (Gazpron) was so overwhelmed it was unable to meet demands brought on by the blizzard and extreme cold. Three hundred people died .
“Did anyone even think of deploying our wind turbines to make good the supply of energy shortfall from Russia?”
He went to to say that it would have been a hopeless idea since everyone knows that “windmills are a self-indulgent and sanctimonious luxury whose purpose is to make us feel good.”
Another quote:
“Modern cities are incredibly fragile organisms which tremble on the edge of disaster the entire time. During a severe blizzard it is electricity alone that prevents a midwinter urban holocaust. Had Europe genuinely depended on green energy on Friday(past Friday) by Sunday thousands would be dead from frostbite and exposure and the EU would have suffered an economic body blow to match Japan’s tsunami a year ago.”
I wonder how many in our area would like to go through a severe cold spell accompanied by high blizzard force winds would like to depend on wind turbines for their electrical power??
The entire article is worth reading. Google the title and read the whole thing.
In another example of FANTASYLAND, New York Senator Kristin Gillibrand, D-Liberal—- made a statement to the press yesterday which illustrates not only her ignorance of the US Constitution but also her total sell-out to what Liberals call “Womens’ rights”
She was defending the Obama administration’s decision to issue orders for all religious organizations to be forced to provide coverage for employees’ contraception and abortions.
The US Bill of Rights took care of such an issue at the beginning of the United States Republic.
In the exact words re. religious liberty:
“Congress {i.e. the Government} shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free excercise therof.” emphasis on “PROHIBITING THE FREE EXCERCISE THEROF”
Senator Gillibrand, defended a “womens’ rights” come-lately fervor that only those who want to trash the US Constitution and Bill of Rights parts they do not like… can gin up. Gillibrand is living in a political fantasyland.
In choosing this political fantasyland, Liberals have probably lost the biggest voting bloc in the entire nation.
