Filed Under (Politics) by Don C on 21-10-2007
The only way Gore can save the planet is if nothing bad happens related to “Global Warming” after he appropriates 100 bazillion dollars in his efforts to save his farm. If nothing bad happens before he collects the money, well, he can just keep on screaming that the sky is falling. But to claim credit, he needs to collect the money. If he doesn’t collect the money, no one can say he saved the world.
If something bad happens before he collects his money, he gets to say “I told you so, now give me all your money before it’s really too late!”
If something bad happens after he collects his money, he gets to say “You fools, you waited too long. If only you’d have listened sooner.”
It’s a win-win issue for Gore all around. No downside. Brilliant!
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Filed Under (Hypocrisy) by Don C on 21-10-2007
According to this Reuter’s story some clever people in California have come up with a very cheap way to create energy:
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said that if all of its 1.4 million customers turned off their lights for an hour, enough energy could be saved to power 2,500 homes for an entire year.
I wonder how many total homes in LA are customers of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. It is socialism out there right, so probably everyone has to be a customer of the state-run utility. At any rate, the above claim immediately made the math hackles on the back of my neck tingle. Someone at the water department has been doodling on their napkin and had an epiphany or something.
Let’s see now, if we do a little doodling of our own we can see:
| days/yr |
365 |
| hours / day |
24 |
| hrs/yr |
8760 |
| |
| # of power hrs to run 2500 |
|
| homes for a year: |
21,900,000 |
So the math works if the average Los Angeles power customer consumes 15.6 times more energy than the average residential customer. If that’s the case the next time a family is asked to do without power they should want to find out if the government and big business are doing without at a rate that is at least 15.6 times greater than their sacrifice.
Would that when giving anecdotal evidence pointing to their good works, the bureaucrats/conservationists start using measurements of how long the government could go under the same circumstances.
The LA Power Department said that if all of its 1.4 million customers turned off their lights for an hour, enough energy could be saved to power 2,500 homes for an entire year and that all the government buildings in the service area could operate for 55 minutes.
If you need to work the math on that one you probably think Bush lied about WMD and we should surrender immediately in Iraq.
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