Posted by
rycK on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:38:47 AM
The NYT Dumbs Down on Energy “Policy” Again.
The quest for the solution to capitalism must begin with some way to stall martial, resources and manpower if the left will be able to gain control of everything and redistribute the wealth of the world according to some leftist scheme.
In an ideological fantasy, the pluralist Thomas L. Friedman [1] turns the rusty crank on his socialist vision and finds, as usual, that the United States is in error on all energy matters. The article entitled Dumb as We Wanna Be [2] is as dumb as we could get if we follow this sophistry. He follows his own soggy definition of pluralism, a rare insight he seems to offer us after an intense study of the cultures and economies in places like Bangalore and Shanghai. This adventure prompted him to write the sensational book The World Is Flat gave Friedman new insights into the continuing trends of globalization and the forces. Using the NYT resources as a crude guide to the mandated conclusions before he does any research his notion that the world is somehow ‘flat’ in terms of the economic competition of mature and emerging nations is mere hokum.[3] Essays like this are the fodder for the eternal and obvious conclusion that we need world government and all that. As such, we must take a scalpel to his broad claims and cut out the sour, leftist parts and save them for the garden until they ripen.
He pumps out insane conclusions such as this:
“It is great to see that we finally have some national unity on energy policy.” [all quotes are from the Friedman article unless indicated otherwise and emphasis in terms of color, bold or italics are mine.]
This is a joke of course. Nobody agrees on any energy policy. This is a pipe dream that blends into San Francisco dope parlor parlance. Needle stickers have a policy too.
“Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents a gallon, for this summer’s travel season. This is not an energy policy.”
Nobody said it was, but this is a TAX CUT and prompts a Pavlovian Drooling Episode from any leftist, and here it is:
“When the summer is over, we will have increased our debt to China, increased our transfer of wealth to Saudi Arabia and increased our contribution to global warming for our kids to inherit.”
This is his conclusion, which could be equally applied to the production of cars, hamburgers or toys. Notice the automatic endorsement of the phony Global Warming screeds.[4] Does he want to end free trade? We can always embargo China and India and send them into a depression to avoid an imbalance of debts using this notion.
He twists a situation to fit his ends by ignoring some of the inputs that increase costs:
“The McCain-Clinton gas holiday proposal is a perfect example of what energy expert Peter Schwartz of Global Business Network describes as the true American energy policy today: “Maximize demand, minimize supply and buy the rest from the people who hate us the most.”
This is truly amazing. We can wonder how the frantic efforts of our domestic enemies(the left-wing Democrats, their Islamo-Fascist allies, and their Marxist cheerleaders from Cuba and Venezuela), soaked in white wine and crazed with drugs, to prevent any new drilling, exploration or building of petroleum facilities might have affected the supply? Gee, they won’t allow drilling and now the supply is low? Who would have thought this might happen except for an authentic economist, someone the New York Times has yet to hire or listen to. [5]The BIG LIE here is that this is the leftist policy of the EcoNazis and their determined effort to sandbag our economy with regulations that will stop growth and generate unemployment with a recession or depression. This is all backward. The left likes depression and war and famine and hatred—those bring those votes. Snaildarterism at its best.
“But here’s what’s scary: our problem is so much worse than you think. We have no energy strategy. If you are going to use tax policy to shape energy strategy then you want to raise taxes on the things you want to discourage — gasoline consumption and gas-guzzling cars — and you want to lower taxes on the things you want to encourage — new, renewable energy technologies. We are doing just the opposite.”
Here is the undressed and trumpeted tax-and-spend mantra of the far left in verse and song. All this from the phony baloney notions that derive from this ‘strategy’ such as the counterfeit Blue Water Wind Follies [6] that would force the citizens of Delaware to pay $0.11 per kilowatt hour for 25 years plus 2.5% per year increase for some off shore gadgets when we now pay only $0.02-0.03 per kwh now and we could get ONSHORE wind power from many other sources for half the cost of the EcoNazi version. That starts off at a %440 increase for electricity and rises to %715 after two decades. What a deal we get from the drooling leftists!
“The Democrats wanted the wind and solar credits to be paid for by taking away tax credits from the oil industry. President Bush said he would veto that. Neither side would back down, and Mr. Bush — showing not one iota of leadership — refused to get all the adults together in a room and work out a compromise. Stalemate. Meanwhile, Germany has a 20-year solar incentive program; Japan 12 years. Ours, at best, run two years.”
The crude assumption is outlined in this notion that money wasted is money well spent as long as it comes from taxes. We could compare this to the doubling of ‘education’ spending in the last 25 years and wonder why there was no improvement in test scores, something the left always responds to with pleas for more money and teachers and accusations of racism. Here, again, the incessant tax mongering by liberals arises as the central issue. We all know Hillary wanted to put a $50,000,000,000 dollar punitive tax on Exxon and that must be thought of as some clever way to lower oil costs even thought Exxon cannot control the price of oil and our government makes more money off the Exxon sales taxes than Exxon makes in profits.
Solar energy, for example,[7] has been a pipe dream for 50 years or more, rivaling fusion and perhaps the celebrated cold fusion and is not efficient. Wind power is only efficient when the wind blows and only some 98% if the US landmass is suitable for such gadgets. Only on Martha’s Vineyard would it work exceedingly well and this project is currently blocked by the Kennedy Klan and his drug-dependent friends.
This current article is a pedestrian-level tautological screed in the manner of sausage-machine mental exercises and the conclusions are always what we expect from a leftist: increase taxes and regulate business and give breaks to third world. Get the parasites at the UN involved in the tax grubbings.
They ought to make rubber stamps for the clichés and hackneyed phrases this guy throws around carelessly and force people to stamp their clothing [or foreheads] every day before they go to work. That would be a ‘political policy’ that would work for the left—we could call it ‘education.’
The World Is Flat only in the fevered minds of the drug-crazed Marxists, the EcoNazis and their head-banging lackeys at the New York Times. And, they didn’t even pass this by Jeremiah Wright or Al Sharpton.
Walter Duranty[8] would be so proud. He had great visions such as this too.
rycK
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[3]Ninety percent of the world's phone calls, Web traffic, and investments are local, suggesting that Friedman has grossly exaggerated the significance of the trends he describes. For example, Pankaj Ghemawat from Foreign Policy magazine states that, "Despite talk of a new, wired world where information, ideas, money, and people can move around the planet faster than ever before, just a fraction of what we consider globalization actually exists". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Is_Flat#Criticisms
[8]From his devotion to Communism, Stalin and propaganda. In honor of that celebrated Communist stooge and liar and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the NYT. The color RED is used in my essays in honor of Walter Duranty, a saint, if there could be one, in the Marxist Archives of Honor.