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2009-01-14 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2009-01-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 This guy is a loon. In the linked video he asserts: a) that the goal of the US should be to reduce energy usage to the world average (a reduction of around 80% from current levels); and b) that government regulation forcing the a 50% reduction in energy usage from current levels will have no negative economic impact or cost and will not affect Americans' standard of living. He's also an AGW true believer and begins his analysis with the implicit understanding that man is affecting climate and that such must be stopped. Scary stuff. Obviously the Nobel Committee didn't award his prize based on his common sense.

Posted by AzCat 2009-01-14 01:00|| 2009-01-14 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Well gee,
cutting production 80% would be the fastest, easiest way of using less energy.
Just throttle the powerplants and refineries down to idle speed and watch usage go down, down, down.

The wealthy (important) people will have generators anyway.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2009-01-14 10:45|| 2009-01-14 10:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Do I have to look into this guy's "views" any more than this to conclude that he's a complete moron outside whatever his narrow technical specialty might be?

OK, let's see.

The answer is efficiency, using less so that even if the price rises, the bill does not, he said.

THIS is the level of economic - and scientific - illiteracy that now passes for cabinet-level appointments. And, of course, the AGW religious cult nonsense.

Of course he can't match the catastrophic idiocy of Clinton's EnSec who was hot to distribute nuclear weapon design info around the world. But it would be unfair to judge him by that lofty standard ....

Posted by Verlaine 2009-01-14 12:21|| 2009-01-14 12:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Get that foot in the door, doc. Foot in the door.
What happens after that? Stay tuned...

Posted by tu3031 2009-01-14 12:58|| 2009-01-14 12:58|| Front Page Top

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