1/20/2023
Thank God (and Mother Earth) for "Fossil Fuels"!
Living "green" is costly! The amount of time and labor it took for most of human history before widespread use of "fossil fuels" (green old days), to put food on the table was mucho/mucho times that of today. To compare think of a fast food burger costing $25 or more (that may be sooner than we think), and you get the drift of the amount of labor that was involved just to eat! Today (so far) living “green” and “off the grid” are options ONLY for the richest among us... the poor man cannot afford it! As of now it is VERY expensive to maintain that “morally superior, I’m better than you "green" attitude.
Most of human history has been a struggle to survive, with the large majority of people barely eking out subsistence. The discovery and development of these “fossil fuels” has been a main engine that have fueled (pun intended) our enormous increase in prosperity, over these last 100+ years or so! Fact is... they are the keystones of it! What’s one of the biggest reasons for their success? They have been amazingly cheap and efficient for most of our history! Yet one wonders, why do more and more of otherwise seemingly intelligent people now desire to bite this hand that feeds us so well? They bleat on and on about their dreams of “alternatives” as if their Pollyanna dreams will just make it so. So far all these “alternatives” are prohibitively expensive and will be so for the foreseeable future. Wind farms require hundreds of acres to produce a fraction of the energy of the “fossil fuel”… the land costs alone make it not practical. Solar cells take years to recover the cost of their installation… and the suns gotta shine. Otherwise no go!
Petroleum and the so-called “fossil fuels” (coal, petroleum, natural gas, etc.) are among the greatest gifts ever given to the human race by Mother Earth (maybe even God)! They have been used to produce thousands of useful products… motor fuels to medicine to many of the building materials that make our houses homes. There are also used for uncountable other life benefiting miracles we cannot imagine! With the passing of time and the accumulation of knowledge and experience, they also have become more and more “clean” energy.
#ThankGodAndMotherEarthForFossilFuels
1/10/2023
RINOs
1/09/2023
Green New Deal: The Perfect “Progressive” World of “Fairness”, “Equality” and "Equity"… updated
2020 and Beyond!
“From each according to their ability” (you DON’T OWN what you produce)… “Too each according to their needs” (you DON’T get to decide that. Your “needs” and that of your family is done at the Government “Central Needs Determination Office”)…
Coming soon? In President Kamala's... (sigh) perfect "progressive" world and with Global Warming (Climate Change on cold days) "crisis" looming (it gonna happen any day now, PROMISE!)... and Covid19 style lockdowns always an option, quick action to “save” the planet and fight the latest variant of (insert virus here) have been instituted for the public "good." As we all want to help “solve” this “crisis” (only world socialism...er feudalism will work!!!), we now are required by law to use monthly ration coupons (after we wait in line for several hours to get them at the Government Central Allocations Office). ALL aspects of daily life are now licensed, permitted, regulated, rationed and most important taxed! (lest we damage the planet!).
After showing our vaccine passport and waiting a few hours in line at the Central Allocations Office to receive our ration coupons, we get to wait in a long line again at one of the Government Distribution Centers… there we must present the appropriate coupon for our “fair share” (sure hope some is available!) of food, fuel, medicine, our monthly ration of toilet paper and other essentials as well as our monthly allocation of internet access, most required to be used to read "Dear Leader" Old Joe's comments at government approved websites.
Historical Note: the 2nd Amendment is still in the Constitution… but in President Kamala's first term in office she/her signed an executive order nationalizing all gun/ammo manufacturers (upheld by SCOTUS 5-4, with newly appointed Justices Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Barack Obama casting the deciding votes). You must now register all firearms, pay a fee, high liability insurance and then apply for your “ammo permit and ration”… which after paying the fee, has a 10 year “waiting period”… and applications have a tendency to “get lost”, then you must re-apply and re-pay… go figure.
A day in the life: After returning with your meager rations to your government approved housing (800 square feet for a family of four)… you receive a call from the MisAllocation of Resources Department… a “friendly” (but stern) voice informs you that your family exceeded its rationed number of toilet flushes for the month… which is 50 flushes, but the government required sensor in the bathroom detected 62. You explain that a stomach bug (from rationed food gone bad) infected the family, necessitating the additional flushes. The “friendly” (but stern) voice is understanding that "such things happen", and politely explains your options: you can agree to cut flushes by three for the next four months… or you can pay the fine and/or do the required community service for exceeding your allocations.
Historical Note: Air travel is banned except for government officials... "fossil fuels" are strictly rationed, only a few government officials allowed to use them. Bicycles have made a big comeback in personal transportation. All travel from your "allocated habitation zone" is strictly regulated, requiring permits and fees... and a long waiting period.
You have a family event coming up and want to plan a party… so you use a few of your internet access hours to seek a party permit allowing additional food, drink and toilet flushes. After filling out the online forms with “proper justification” a small fee is charged…your party is in two weeks, hopefully the permit will be issued by then, and food will be available. Also, while on the website, you fill another application to get a vacation license for next year and get on the waiting list (currently six months) for accommodations at the beach… you hope a room will be available before your scheduled dates… a small fee is charged. Sadly, your momma, still full of life and vigor gets seriously ill and due to her age (80) she is no longer receiving healthcare coupons for medicine and hospital time (there’s critical shortage of doctors as most have left practice or the country)… but the “merciful” District Medicine Czar does offer her a “pill”. President Biden's perfect world… Socialist Utopia… where all though miserable (save the rulers)... it's “fair” and “equal” and the Earth is saved.
Notes and observations: “Dear Leaders” are exempt from the rules outlined above… “all animals are equal, but (socialist) pigs are more equal”.
Milton Friedman once observed… “an ant hill and/or bee hive is the perfect socialist society. The survival of the nest is prime; the individual (even the queen) lives totally for the benefit of the whole… and all ‘citizens’ of the nest are expendable”.
“From each according to their ability” (you DON’T OWN what you produce)… “Too each according to their needs” (you DON’T get to decide that. Your “needs” and that of your family is done at the Government “Central Needs Determination Office”)…
Coming soon? In President Kamala's... (sigh) perfect "progressive" world and with Global Warming (Climate Change on cold days) "crisis" looming (it gonna happen any day now, PROMISE!)... and Covid19 style lockdowns always an option, quick action to “save” the planet and fight the latest variant of (insert virus here) have been instituted for the public "good." As we all want to help “solve” this “crisis” (only world socialism...er feudalism will work!!!), we now are required by law to use monthly ration coupons (after we wait in line for several hours to get them at the Government Central Allocations Office). ALL aspects of daily life are now licensed, permitted, regulated, rationed and most important taxed! (lest we damage the planet!).
After showing our vaccine passport and waiting a few hours in line at the Central Allocations Office to receive our ration coupons, we get to wait in a long line again at one of the Government Distribution Centers… there we must present the appropriate coupon for our “fair share” (sure hope some is available!) of food, fuel, medicine, our monthly ration of toilet paper and other essentials as well as our monthly allocation of internet access, most required to be used to read "Dear Leader" Old Joe's comments at government approved websites.
Historical Note: the 2nd Amendment is still in the Constitution… but in President Kamala's first term in office she/her signed an executive order nationalizing all gun/ammo manufacturers (upheld by SCOTUS 5-4, with newly appointed Justices Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Barack Obama casting the deciding votes). You must now register all firearms, pay a fee, high liability insurance and then apply for your “ammo permit and ration”… which after paying the fee, has a 10 year “waiting period”… and applications have a tendency to “get lost”, then you must re-apply and re-pay… go figure.
A day in the life: After returning with your meager rations to your government approved housing (800 square feet for a family of four)… you receive a call from the MisAllocation of Resources Department… a “friendly” (but stern) voice informs you that your family exceeded its rationed number of toilet flushes for the month… which is 50 flushes, but the government required sensor in the bathroom detected 62. You explain that a stomach bug (from rationed food gone bad) infected the family, necessitating the additional flushes. The “friendly” (but stern) voice is understanding that "such things happen", and politely explains your options: you can agree to cut flushes by three for the next four months… or you can pay the fine and/or do the required community service for exceeding your allocations.
Historical Note: Air travel is banned except for government officials... "fossil fuels" are strictly rationed, only a few government officials allowed to use them. Bicycles have made a big comeback in personal transportation. All travel from your "allocated habitation zone" is strictly regulated, requiring permits and fees... and a long waiting period.
You have a family event coming up and want to plan a party… so you use a few of your internet access hours to seek a party permit allowing additional food, drink and toilet flushes. After filling out the online forms with “proper justification” a small fee is charged…your party is in two weeks, hopefully the permit will be issued by then, and food will be available. Also, while on the website, you fill another application to get a vacation license for next year and get on the waiting list (currently six months) for accommodations at the beach… you hope a room will be available before your scheduled dates… a small fee is charged. Sadly, your momma, still full of life and vigor gets seriously ill and due to her age (80) she is no longer receiving healthcare coupons for medicine and hospital time (there’s critical shortage of doctors as most have left practice or the country)… but the “merciful” District Medicine Czar does offer her a “pill”. President Biden's perfect world… Socialist Utopia… where all though miserable (save the rulers)... it's “fair” and “equal” and the Earth is saved.
Notes and observations: “Dear Leaders” are exempt from the rules outlined above… “all animals are equal, but (socialist) pigs are more equal”.
Milton Friedman once observed… “an ant hill and/or bee hive is the perfect socialist society. The survival of the nest is prime; the individual (even the queen) lives totally for the benefit of the whole… and all ‘citizens’ of the nest are expendable”.
