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Today's Public Service Announcement...


I swear to God, Ladies and Gentlemen, some days I reach the point when I think that my head (the ever greying, ever balding one I talk about all of the time here on this blog) is GOING TO EXPLODE.

Explosively...at the risk of being redundant.

Why?

Because all of this BS "Green Energy This" and "Green Energy That" and other mindless PorkulusStimlus driven drivel bantered around by the lamestream media and the dirty stinking liberal progressive Patchouli stinking, Kumbaya singing, tree hugging environmentalists is making me crazy.

I've said it before here several times (at least once every three months), but this afternoon I feel like giving you a "Cliff Notes" rendition of my basic insights into why the whole Green Energy and Conservation and Recycling initiatives, as presently proposed by Government, are doomed to failure.

Point Number 1.

You want Green Energy...something like wind power?

You get all warm and fuzzy thinking about all of the CO2 and NOx emissions you're going to avoid adding to the Global Warming Monster that coming to visit you in your living room next year???

Then go here and look at Siemens Energy's website, they're the largest producer of utility scale wind turbines in the world, and they're in Germany.

Then give them a call or send them an E-mail asking for a budget quotation on one of their wind turbines.

I did exactly that last spring, called them and e-mailed them while working on a proposal for a wind farm in an industrial park down in the Florida Panhandle...

Know what my honest technical request got me?

A polite e-mail saying that due to present market conditions, they couldn't even give me a BUDGET price for six months to one year because they had sold everything they could build for the next TWO YEARS.

So in spite of all of the rhetoric, if you start right now as far as I can tell no one's going to generate one single Kilowatt or KWH of electricity in the southeastern US in the foreseeable future unless they placed a purchase order and got in the production flow a few years before Obama was elected President.

Further, there's a wind farm up here in Tennessee a few dozen miles north of the Turbo Pup compound that was erected a few years ago over the protests of guess who???

THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS, who were worried that the blades of the wind turbines were killing Bats and Migratory birds flying over the mountain tops on which the turbines were located.

Funny thing, but if you want to generate energy from wind, you have to put your generators where the wind blows--preferably all day every day and at a rate of something like 15 to 20 MPH.

But the Federal by God Government of the United States of 'Merica, in their infinite wisdom, has let the EPA and the Department of the Interior add further red tape to the "Green Energy" permitting process.

If some tye died patchouli stinking tree hugging Jane Fonda loving hippy (or group or groups thereof) wants to object on behalf of the Geese and Ducks and Sea Gulls and Bats, you and your group of investors in the "Green Energy" wind energy project have to do an "Migratory Wildlife Impact Study", often lasting 18 months to 2 years, prior to obtaining a permit to generate your non-stinky, no CO2 and NOx emitting electrical power.

And get this...this is the kicker for all of the local Tree Hugging Environmentally Conscious Green Weenies...after we've waited two years for the government permit and two more years for our wind turbine to arrive in a BMW or Mercedes truck or boat from Germany, our local utility offers to sell us a portion of their "Green Energy for a FEE"...something like a 25% increase in electrical cost (don't hold me to the number because I'm too lazy to look it up right now.)

Got it?

So if you want Green Energy boys and girls, you better get your Checkbook and Wallet out because it's not going to be CHEAP, and then the next thing you know all of the liberals are going to start crying and yapping about the "working families" and "poor people" not being able to afford it, and then once the Government has converted everything over to expensive GREEN ENERGY, those of us they deem can afford it are going to not only see an increase in our own electric bill, but they're going to start making us also pay for the extra cost of the aforementioned "working families" and "poor folks" energy bills.

Ain't that a lovely pile of Dog Squeeze?


Point Number 2.

"Recycling"

That word makes my head spin at a rate approaching orbital rotational velocity.

I've gotten to the point where I just shut up rather than tell what I know about the current process of "municipal government" managed recycling because my friends and acquantences--often well intended people/citizens (i.e. not tree hugging tye died Patchouli stinking Kumbaya singing liberals) would get mad at me when I started talking about it.

Let me break this to you gently.

I suspect (without direct Internet citations because I'm lazy...but I know I'm pretty close) that at least 50% of the crap people take the time to separate and place in their lovely blue and green "recycling bins" on the curb once a week, is actually taken to the local "waste transfer station" or directly to the garbage dump/landfill and promptly mixed right back in with the tampons and empty tuna cans and left over dinner scraps that didn't get flushed down the toilet or garbage disposal.

It's just that simple.

You see, depending on economic conditions, there is very little if any post consumer market for ANYTHING we're encouraged to recycle...be it plastic or glass or aluminum or cardboard.

It's just not there because the economics of cleaning up and separating things and "recycling" them back into the production stream exceeds starting from scratch with clean feed stock.

One lithium battery or one phonebook in a dumpster full of newspapers screws everything up when the load enters the material stream at the manufacturer.

And as long as the local town or city or Waste Management will come to your house and haul pretty much every thing you can possibly want to throw away each month for $39.95--nuclear waste and fluorescent light bulbs included--enough of the population is going to continue to poison the "environment" at a rate which greatly exceeds anything that you conscienious do-gooders can accomplish...

And guess what?

Within limits...Mother Earth can handle it.

After all, we're not INVENTING mercury and Lithium and Lead and all of this stuff everyone is waisting time hyperventalating about and trying to pass legislation to prevent. This crap was already in the air or the dirt, just spread around everywhere...

heck...on a simplistic basis I'd like to see all the toxic crap concentrated and localized, then me and a bunch of other injuneers/investors could cover it all up with dirt and build a Nursing Home or Playground on top of it.

OK...maybe not...but still...

Any way, my point about all the hysteria regarding the need for recycling is this.

You want to force your desire for a cleaner planet on everyone?

That's EASY.

Make residential and small business garbage collection cost $1000 per month for anything over 20 pounds...maybe 50 pounds for an office.

FIFTY DOLLARS A POUND...that will do it, and toss in a prison term and a big fine for poopy baby diapers and batteries...force all the "working moms" back into linen diapers and using a diaper service or actually doing laundry...that's the ticket.

You know people will change their tune and most will be screaming bloody murder just like they do if and when gasoline finally hits $5.00 a gallon here in the US...which is another story beyond the scope of my diatribe this afternoon.

Otherwise, and until then, people are going to continue to leave their lights on while they're out of the room for five minutes, drive giant SUV's and toss old recliners and a year's worth of newspapers in the garbage along with used motor oil and Plutonium from their son's Ayatollah Komeinin Peaceful Nuclear Reactor Prototype Science Kit.

Got it now?

You know I'm right when you think about it.

So stop mindlessly saying "they're aught to be a law" and feeling good about yourself and your "environmental consciousness" and go out and throw away something that will make the liberals head spin...a nice used transmission or something full of Dioxin or PCB's.

And by the way...you're welcome...