The Boxer-Kerry energy fantasy world
Barbara Boxer and John Kerry respond to Sarah Palin's thoughtful essay on the energy issue with rhetoric that demonstrates just how ignorant they both are of the energy issues.
The so called green jobs are evaporating even as Democrats throw more subsidies at them. These jobs are not forthcoming because the alternative energies cost roughly three times as much as oil, gas and coal. As for creating jobs, if these Democrats would get out of the way of domestic production it would create real jobs as well as desperately needed royalty income to the government to pay for the Democrats unwise spending.
Then there is the false notion that the Waxman-Markey bill was "carefully crafted." If they mean that indulgences were sold for votes that might make some sense, but that bill will drive up the cost of energy for all of us and lower our standard of living while not doing anything of value. It will at best lower global temperature less than a degree in 50 years. That is not significant enough to destroy our economy.
...The real truth is that this statement is either grossly ignorant or deliberately deceitful. Both Kerry and Boxer support the stragulation of domestic energy production and also support a scheme to drive up the cost of energy in hopes that it will make so called alternative energies more competitive. They whine about "costly dependency" on foreign oil at the same time they restrict domestic production that would replace that foreign oil. They do this in the hopes that some magic energy will be developed in the future that will replace both foreign and domestic oil. Democrats have been doing this for 30 years and it has only led to ever increasing reliance on foreign oil as they restrict production of domestic resources.
Palin argues that "the answer doesn't lie in making energy scarcer and more expensive!" The truth is, clean energy legislation doesn't make energy scarcer or more expensive; it works to find alternative solutions to our costly dependence on foreign oil and provides powerful incentives to pursue cutting-edge clean energy technologies.
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The so called green jobs are evaporating even as Democrats throw more subsidies at them. These jobs are not forthcoming because the alternative energies cost roughly three times as much as oil, gas and coal. As for creating jobs, if these Democrats would get out of the way of domestic production it would create real jobs as well as desperately needed royalty income to the government to pay for the Democrats unwise spending.
Then there is the false notion that the Waxman-Markey bill was "carefully crafted." If they mean that indulgences were sold for votes that might make some sense, but that bill will drive up the cost of energy for all of us and lower our standard of living while not doing anything of value. It will at best lower global temperature less than a degree in 50 years. That is not significant enough to destroy our economy.
We don't need some future magical mystery energy. We have the energy sources now, we just need to set up the necessary facilities. Check out, for example, bio-diesels derived from algae which don't have the drawbacks of things like ethanol. There are interviews with business leaders about the viability of alternative energy businesses, including discussion of algae bio-diesels, at http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_sectionex/Itemid,200076/id,8/view,category/#catid92
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