Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Marin clean energy sounds too good to be true: it’s both cheap and green. Please help me determine whether it’s for real or is just a green boondoggle. Today’s Marin IJ, our local newspaper, has an article celebrating the fact that 4,354 solar panels, installed at a cost of $5.5
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One of the hard Lefties whose Facebook page both steams me and gives me fodder for my blog, had this poster on her page: I decided it was missing a few things, and augmented it: And while I’m on the subject, that whole North Dakota pipeline protest is grand theater
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I’m not a Trump voter; I’m a #NeverHillary voter. However, I’d much prefer to vote for someone than against someone else. Voting is more fulfilling as an affirmative act than as a negative one. So, I look for those moments when Trump says something that makes me think “Yes!” Well, Mr. Trump did
Continue readingLet me just dive right in…. The really horrible thing about Hillary Clinton You know what the really horrible, disturbing thing is about Hillary Clinton?
Continue readingIf I were to voice any of this in Marin, I’d be tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail — although I do routinely point out to people that, when the car came along, it was considered the cleanest transportation imaginable, since it freed streets from ankle-deep
Continue readingAside from domestic responsibilities and computer problems, the main reason for my slowed blogging has to do with cars. Electric cars, to be specific. Years ago, when I was living my life as a round of carpools, we bought a lovely Honda minivan. I really do mean lovely. It’s the
Continue readingOne of my old high school friends, an ardent liberal, posted the following on his Facebook page: Doesn’t that just make so much sense? Give free education and your nation will be wonderful. Of course, both “Mr. Silhouette” and the friend who posted it suffer from no small amount of
Continue readingIn my post about Victor Davis Hanson’s talk, I wrote that the US is the world’s largest coal producer. It turns out that I was wrong. And by “I was wrong,” I mean just that. It was my error, not Hanson’s. I was simultaneously trying to listen to Hanson, eat
Continue readingUniversities have long been the incubators of climate change hysteria. They teach anthropogenic climate change there with the same certainty that they teach accounting principles. There is no room for debate. Students graduate as true believers. But what happens when the students discover that their teachers are hypocrites? They go
Continue readingQuite clearly, our own environmentally sensitive natives believed that all one needed to do was to build bricks, mortar and steel into modern-looking structures, pick an environmentally friendly “technology” with a cool sounding name and, voila! Magic benefits would come out of thin air – endless BTUs of cheap, pollution-free, guilt-free, Gaia-approved energy that defied the laws of physics, engineering and economics.
Continue readingI met a semi-retired petroleum engineer in Alberta that was working on the Canadian tar sands development. I asked him what he had heard regarding the size of the Bakken oil field. He indicated that, pessimistically, it contained 1x the reserves of Saudi Arabia, while the optimistic projection was 3x the Saudi oil reserves.
Continue readingI have been following with interest the running comment thread on my post asking about whether electric cars are actually cleaner, or if they just shift pollution outside of the consumer’s view. Very quickly, and probably inevitably, the post shifted to a cost-benefit analysis, which aimed to compare fossil fuel
Continue readingSadie sent me a link to a calculator that shows precisely how Obama’s energy policies are hitting you every time you pump gas. And those are just the costs you see. These increased fuel prices affect every aspect of American life, because oil truly is the liquid that powers the
Continue readingHere’s a Robert Samuelson article, “bye bye Keynes” that should give us all pause: the arguments he uses to write Keynes’ obituary are arguments that we all posited in our own excoriation of Keynes in years past, in response to a string of commentators, ranging from A to Z. I’ve
Continue readingTwo things happened on November 26, two entirely unrelated things, that nevertheless ended up merging into a single thought in my mind: In the modern world, fossil fuels equal liberty. If you cannot assure the people the former, forget about trying to foist upon them the latter. Let me walk
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