One Reason for the Blackout Maybe . . . Enviro Wackos
Alan Caruba
Thursday, Aug 14, 2003
There's a very fundamental reason for the latest blackout on the East Coast.
The United States of America needs more power facilities.

I'm not talking about ten thousand windmills on the coast of Massachusetts or seventy square miles of solar collectors in Vermont. I'm talking about burning coal and using natural gas. I'm talking about hydroelectric plants and, yes, nuclear-based plants.

All of them gloriously producing electricity.

Reality pulled the plug from Ottawa to Detroit, from Toledo to Hartford, from Cleveland to New York City.

Millions of New Yorkers had to walk across the bridges to the other Boroughs to get home. Major cities just flat out shut down. No electricity. No elevator service. No cell phones. No traffic lights.

NO NOTHING!

We live in a technological society that is totally dependent on electricity and it isn't produced by putting forty hamsters on a treadmill.

You have to burn coal. You have to use natural gas. You have to tap rolling water for hydroelectricity. You need to build clean, non-polluting nuclear plants.

Americans, in general, are so dumb they just can't imagine not having enough electricity for everything they need to do.

The reason California experienced so many energy problems was that the stupid Californians would not allow power plants to be built and thought they could just keep buying electricity from Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and even Canada. No!

You can't have a massive immigration surge and not expect to use more damned electricity. It's a commodity and, when it gets scarce, the price goes UP.

There's a reason why California doesn't have enough power plants, nor any other State in this great republic of ours. It's called environmentalism.

It goes something like this; the Environmental Protection Agency is so busy levying huge fines on existing and older power plants that there is no incentive to build new ones.

It goes like this; the stupid attorney generals of Eastern States sue Western ones, blaming them for the air quality and crying, 'We can't get in compliance with the EPA because you people want to heat your homes and stuff."

If that doesn't stop a power plant, there's the old reliable Endangered Species Act or there's wetlands regulations. Or the Greens will run around and say that building a power plant anywhere is unfair to the poor people who may live anywhere near it.

Listen up, you dumb Americans!

There are over 280 million of us and all of us, except for those who live in cardboard boxes under a bridge, want to have our air conditioning work in the summer and our furnace work in the winter.

We expect the food in our refrigerator to stay frozen. We expect to turn on our computers, our lights, and, God help us, our television sets.

The latest blackout was a warning that, so long as this nation continues to go along with idiotic and malevolent environmentalists and their lies about darned near everything, we are going to have more and worse blackouts.

Who needs terrorists? Our national security is entirely dependent on safe, reliable and abundant energy.

Maybe 8-14-03 needs to be added to 9-11-01 as a reminder of that? Environmentalists have been attacking the economic and energy base of this nation for decades.

Call it the Californication of America.


Alan Caruba is the author of "Warning Signs", published by Merril Press. His weekly column is posted on www.anxietycenter.com, the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center.

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You have to burn coal. You have to use natural gas. You have to tap rolling water for hydroelectricity. You need to build clean, non-polluting nuclear plants.

I wonder if this man's kid is over in Iraq fighting for the US hegemony over the oil market?

I wonder if he has a nuclear plant near his house?

I wonder if he cares what we do with the spent rods that will remain radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years.

I wonder if he cares about the people and industries that depend on free-flowing rivers?

I wonder why he's against alternative energy? Windmills and tide turbines and roof-mounted solar panels can provide a huge source of untapped power.

Caruba is obviously a shill for the entrenched interests of people like Lay, Cheney and the Enron crowd.

I wonder how much they pay him?

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I wonder if he cares what we do with the spent rods that will remain radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years.

I know what you can do with them spent rods. I don't care what you do on your own time, not that there's anything wrong with it.
:bounce:

Having a discussion with the troll is like wrestling a pig in the mud. All you do is get muddy and after a while you may come to realize, the pig enjoys it.

If the lies that you believe are continually shown to be lies, all you have left is to ignore the person pointing it out.

That you don't alter your viewpoint in the face of overwhelming evidence that you support a lie, makes me wonder if you really believe it.


Is our earth so rich in resources that we should waste them?


Do we as citizens of the wealthiest nation have the luxury to waste the world's resources?

Or do we have the responsiblity to use our knowledge and power to insure that we are not needlessly threatening the lives and futures of others?

Bluesky is an Internet Troll.

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The only way to deal with trolls is to limit your reaction to reminding others not to respond to trolls. When you try to reason with a troll, he wins. When you insult a troll, he wins. When you scream at a troll, he wins. The only thing that trolls can't handle is being ignored.

Alan Caruba is SOOOO right on the money. Cheers to him. :beer: :beer: :beer:

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Do we as citizens of the wealthiest nation have the luxury to waste the world's resources?

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Please answer this one question blu.

Why is our nation the wealthiest in the world today?

CBD, Sierra Club, ACLU. They're all the same. >:< >:< >:<

Apparently wind farms get the thumbs down when it comes time to implement them.

[quote]Why is our nation the wealthiest in the world today[/quote]

1. the land we stole from the native Americans is the richest area in the world--blackest soil, abundance of minerals and forests and water.

2. Our constitution allows for a nation of laws, not of men.

Bluesky is an Internet Troll.

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[quote]The only way to deal with trolls is to limit your reaction to reminding others not to respond to trolls.

When you try to reason with a troll, he wins. When you insult a troll, he wins. When you scream at a troll, he wins. The only thing that trolls can't handle is being ignored. [/quote]

The white guilt card. Nice.

[quote][quote]Why is our nation the wealthiest in the world today[/quote]

1. the land we stole from the native Americans is the richest area in the world--blackest soil, abundance of minerals and forests and water.

2. Our constitution allows for a nation of laws, not of men.[/quote]

NO! The answer is because the people of this nation have developed those natural resorces to make this the wealthiest nation in the world.

[quote]1. the land we stole from the native Americans is the richest area in the world--blackest soil, abundance of minerals and forests and water.[/quote]
We didn't steal it... We killed 'em all, and then moved in on the empty land.

"Blackest soil"... The color of the soil makes it better?
"abundance of minerals and forests and water" ... And GOD KNOWS that America is the ONLY place where there is an abundance of these things.

BTW: This land is the "richest area in the world" because WE make it that way. There are places in this world which are JUST as rich or even richer...

AND.... Our #1 Export Item is....

Come on...



Don't think too hard................















It's our CULTURE!!!
Not our wood, or our "Black" soil... It's AMERICA'S CULTURE!

I know I shouldn't do this but:

[quote] I wonder if this man's kid is over in Iraq fighting for the US hegemony over the oil market? [/quote]

If he is a true patriot he is supporting his country. If you truly think the Iraq problem was so wrong, why didn't you go help the Iraqis maintain their way of life under Saddam and take up arms with his army?

Take little Johnny Walker. At least he had the balls to pick up and leave to go take a stand for what he believed in. I actually have respect for him. You just stay here at your armchair and piss and moan about how bad this country is without doing anything but supporting organizations that terrorise the citizens of this country through the courts, the legislatures and through the direct action of tresspassing, vandalism, arson and bombing. Nice way to get your point across. Keep it up and eventually we will imprison you all. Or just kick your ass.

You gain your attention to yourself by coming on to various internet boards and spout nonsense that flies in the face of reality and revel in the negative attention you receive.

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I wonder if he has a nuclear plant near his house?
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The shills such as yourself and other extremists for the "environmentalist" movement make that probability low. You can't be against nuclear power. Your government utopia in France is almost entirely powered by nuke. How can you be against that?

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I wonder if he cares what we do with the spent rods that will remain radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years.
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Why not put it back in the ground where they got it. You know, with that stuff they made if from. That stuff that has been radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years.

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I wonder if he cares about the people and industries that depend on free-flowing rivers?
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I think he cares about the millions, no hundreds of millions, of people and industries that depend upon abundant, reliable, and reasonably costing energy.

Wat up peeps! I'm back! :roll: Sound like nothing has changed with ol' **** sky! What an a**whole! Stole from the Indians! :shock: God this guy really hates AMERICA! :x

VOR, You crack me up brotha. Don't ya just love that "black" soil. You know the U.S. is the only place on earth with "black" soil. ha ha ha ha :roll: :roll: :roll: