I have absolutely no problem...
...with changing from fossil fuels to renewable sources. In fact, I
have always been for it. However, the big difference between me
and most of the "green" world is that I insist that the "change" be
driven by efficiency and sound economics. As you have seen me
point out countless times, my favorite example of ethanol is a
painfully clear example of "green" policy that ends up as being
everything but "green".
And now even after most of the "green" advocates (even Al Gore)
publicly recognize our ethanol policy as a giant mistake, our
current president who never misses an opportunity to talk about
our "green" future double-downs on it, mandating that we buy
even more of it! We'll never be rid of it!
True, sustainable "alternative energy" will be an alternative that
people will willingly invest in, and will willingly exchange fossil fuels
for, because they are either more efficient or cheaper. The rest
will end up like ethanol; totally subsidized "alternatives" that are
actually worse than oil both environmentally and economically,
and yet will be permanent because of the political/economic
feedback loop subsidies create.
No thank you.
Oh, and too bad our friend quintasTiberius has left us. Today, I
was planning on outlining the environmental ideas I'd consider if I
had no moral compulsions against fascism in the name of saving
the environment.
