American eco-socialists demand that we become more environmentally like the Europeans (except for the nuclear energy part) all day and night, and those who resist are called “traitors”.
I’ll take that abuse if this is what the Euros are doing
Last month, my old roommate and I used 210 kWh of electricity, roughly 1/90 of Al Gore’s monthly average. And unlike the Nobel-prize-winning purveyor of environmental panic, I don’t have natural gas or heating oil. I have never owned an automobile or flown in a private plane, and I usually work from home.
I wash all of my clothes in cold water. While shopping for my groceries online this month (and yes, that saves gasoline by consolidating deliveries), I even bought a few of those new twisty light bulbs that all the environmentalists want us to start using. I had been burning through incandescent bulbs so quickly that I was cannibalizing my light fixtures just to keep a few of the lamps on. (There’s really no need to have three light bulbs in the same overhead fixture, is there?) My new “green†bulbs are a bit dimmer, and sometimes they freak me out by illuminating more than a full second after I flip the switch. But I don’t mind.
That is David Freddoso at the NRO last week. I can’t tell if he is being serious or is just experimenting. But this is scary,
I still emitted more than 3,500 kg of carbon dioxide in October, almost entirely because I took two plane trips. Great Britain, in its effort to meet its Kyoto obligations, has as its goal to limit subjects to an average of just 8,000 kg of carbon dioxide per year — and in the future they want to cut that in half to 4,000 kg per year! There’s no way I’m going to meet that standard.
Somehow, I doubt that Congress has any plans to stop subsidizing the airline industry. You probably don’t want to stop traveling, either. So if you want to save the world, you might as well turn off the heat right now and start removing those “extra†light bulbs from the ceiling fixtures.
Trust me, it’s really not that bad. And you’ll be used to it by the time it becomes law.
I’d consider someone limiting my carbon output and then taxing me for any “extra” carbon I emit akin to them knocking on my door for my firearms. If that tax collector survives, he’ll be picking tarred feathers out of his nether regions for weeks.
And just what would someone like a HRC, an Obama or an Edwards/Biden/Kucinich do if large sections of the US, or even just a rural county in say Idaho, did that?
Your suggestions are in the comments section.
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I’d consider someone limiting my carbon output and then taxing me for any “extra†carbon I emit akin to them knocking on my door for my firearms. If that tax collector survives, he’ll be picking tarred feathers out of his nether regions for weeks.
And just what would someone like a HRC, an Obama or an Edwards/Biden/Kucinich do if large sections of the US, or even just a rural county in say Idaho, did that?
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You will not have a choice. You will either pay your electric bill or they shut it off. What you will get is a multi structured energy bill. 0-75kWh a month pays $X per kWh, 76-125 kWh pays $Y per kWh and 126+ kWh a month pays $Z per kWh.
You will either pay or do without.
Ted
I wonder: what’s the carbon output of a firing squad?
To protect Mother Gaia, the Enviromental Inquisition will no longer be using firing squads to
executepermenantly eliminate personal carbon output. Instead, taking an energy-saving idea from proven historical use, sanctioned squads of the Enviromental Inquisition shall use machettes and other farming impliments to permenantly eliminate personal carbon outputs from enviromental offenders.In addition, both the act and the desire of being heated by mechanical means have now been declared politcally incorrect, and a disgusting burgousie habit. Instead, you are now required to shiver in solidarity with the rest of the proletariat. Since Brother Jimmah Carter has said we must keep our thermostats down to a chilly level, and since the Holy Goreacle has declared that central heating puts off carbon which kills our beloved Holy Terra, heating via mechanical methods is no longer allowed. The wearing of additional warming clothing is advised, although not encouraged, because the production of poly-blend clothes requires both oil and energy in the manufacturing process, which goes against the wishes of the Goreacle and our Green Masters, and because the use of natural materials such as wool, fur, and goose down is exploitation of our animal-American brethren according to our fellow travelers in the animal rights movement. So shiver in solidarity, comrades, and rejoice in the experiences you share with your poorer, less fortunate fellow citizens, even though you have the means and ability to heat yourself.
And please forget we have the temperature turned up to a balmy 75F here at the central office. We need to be comfortable so we can better serve you.