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2015-12-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-12-15 15:46|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 The Paris climate change deal spells the beginning of the end for cooking and heating with gas, experts claimed yesterday.

Gas? For crying out loud--what idiocy. These people are pushing such things hard don't get out much. Around East Tennessee, out in the country, there are many people who still cook and heat with firewood. In an adjacent county, the county cuts down deadfall from across the roads and turns it into firewood and give it to poor people for heating and cooking. It is a compassionate thing to do. We still have a fireplace and burn wood when necessary--when the power goes out due to a power outage. It doesn't happen very often but it happens. The people making decisions for others really don't understand that there are a great number of middle class and poor people who rely on gas, coal and firewood. So STFU John Kerry, Obozo and your ilk.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-12-15 16:34|| 2015-12-15 16:34|| Front Page Top

#2 That was assuming the buildings, to be taken down after the event, could be used again. They might just struggle, though, to find many people in need of a 2,000-seater plenary room.

Could always turn it into a Clinton Happy Camp for those who do not agree with The Greens. Burn some books for cooking heat.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-12-15 16:55|| 2015-12-15 16:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Within 15 years there won't be anyone left that remembers or cares to enforce it. We'll be back to burning tires in trash barrels for warmth.

Posted by Skidmark 2015-12-15 17:12|| 2015-12-15 17:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, there's always peat.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-12-15 17:23|| 2015-12-15 17:23|| Front Page Top

#5 I prefer to heat with environmentalists....they whine a bit when you shove them into the firebox but since they only tell lies, how can you trust them that they're actually alive.

/sarc for those with no sense of humor.

Posted by Silentbrick 2015-12-15 19:45|| 2015-12-15 19:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Well hell. Didn't God create the microwave oven just for this purpose?

Posted by texhooey 2015-12-15 20:32|| 2015-12-15 20:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Whale oil is sustainable.

Posted by phil_b 2015-12-15 20:50|| 2015-12-15 20:50|| Front Page Top

#8 "Get them shrimp on the treadmills JOGGING!"

Posted by Frank G 2015-12-15 20:55|| 2015-12-15 20:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, I guess we will just have to burn bullshit. After Paris we have stockpiles of it!

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-12-15 23:08|| 2015-12-15 23:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Universal "No Carbon/Fossil Fuels" which I presum would also include natural wood which in turn will wipe out most or all of the Earth's remaining forests.

More bad news for Saudi Arabia - first an on-going worldwide oil glut, now may not be a "Gas-led Energy Superpower" as projected by Perts.

ALso, NO GLOBAL CONSENSUS BY GOVTS-PERTS ON WHETHER "PEAK OIL" [Peak Resources] IS REAL OR NOT, HENCE THE RISK OR SCENARIO IS THERE THAT BY CONTINUING TO INCREASE ITS OIL PRODUCTION THE SAUDIS + OPEC ARE JUST USING UP IN SHORT TIME WHAT "CHEAP OIL" [Reserves] THE WORLD HAS LEFT.

[Year 2040 = "TANK GIRL" = "MAD MAX: FURY ROAD"? here].

IOW, WE'RE [STILL] ALL NUKIES NOW - by extension, any + all Single-Family Residences, Housing Blocs are to eventually be integrated + heavily or completely remotely monitored???

D *** NG IT, YOUR INTERACTIVE VHD FAMILY + GROUP QUARTERS/BLOC MICROWAVE OVEN IS WATCHING ALL OF YOU.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-12-15 23:09|| 2015-12-15 23:09|| Front Page Top

#11 Insanity. What is the alternative to gas ranges? Electric? That's coal, and it's only 30% efficient as a heat source end to end, compared to 95% for gas.

Nuclear is the only final solution, assuming a solution is needed, and nuclear is anathema to the greens.

How about blankies and raw food? How about drippy caves?

Posted by KBK 2015-12-15 23:32|| 2015-12-15 23:32|| Front Page Top

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