Financial crisis (17) Obama "policy" totally wrong

Obama et al are totally wrong about energy “policy”

I’ve written about this before under general topics of energy and natural resources. Today, the day before election, I want to repeat what I have said and link it directly to the damaging and frankly stupid ideas of Obama and the Democrat party regarding energy, natural resources and the environment. This is also a tutorial in part of the Capitalism/Financial Crisis series.

How do humans 1) stay alive and 2) create prosperity? They do it through the extraction of natural resources from the earth. That is the whole point of the earth having natural resources, to use them to promote and maintain life, and to add to the well being and prosperity of all. Life would not have emerged on a planet that did not have natural resources that would continue to sustain it, I mean, duh, think about it. It’s not like humans are the “intruders” and “exploiters” of natural resources; life would not have started and continued at all on earth if the natural resources necessary for advanced life forms did not exist in the first place. Old time environmentalists, those of us who used to call ourselves conservationists, knew that all along. It is the last two generations of modern humans who have become so illogical and strange in their beliefs, stemming from, I reckon, a conscious or unconscious self loathing of humanity and a depressive anti-life outlook and ultimately mental disorder. I find it incredible that I have to explain this, but I don’t mind, especially for the young people, who have no choice in how they were raised and had malpractice in their education.

Without trees, and once humans discovered how to create fire (rather than waiting for lightning to strike somewhere), humans would have had no chance to evolve and live. Animals have fur or feathers, and also through migration and natural selection, live only in areas where they can maintain body temperature. Humans cannot do that. Babies chill and freeze very easily when the sun goes down in most of the earth’s surface, as do adults. Humans would never have existed without trees to burn for heat, and later for cooking. People learned how to make tree firewood burn hotter and last longer by creating what is called charcoal, which is not really the rock coal, but is blackened tree wood. Much of the world, including Haiti, still rely totally on charcoal for both heat and cooking, and suffer great poverty because of the shortage of energy. So I’m not talking about cavemen from millions of years ago here. People cannot live without fuel for heat and cooking. Here is another example. If you read about the American Revolutionary War, you will read that soldiers from both sides, Americans and British, froze in huge numbers during the war because of shortage of wood. Sentries froze at their posts, often every half an hour, due to the lack of firewood for heat. Energy is not an “option” and to consider natural resources to be something that should be left in the ground and not used because of some strange new age belief that humans are “unworthy” and somehow “resource exploiters” is outrageous.

Coal and oil are the result of hundreds of millions of years of vegetation, and animal life, that lived the natural course of their lives, died, and became a part of the earth. But instead of decomposing into the soil, they decomposed and were pressed by the weight of the earth into coal and into oil. If you look at coal you can often see fossils of those very plants and trees. Think of coal as super firewood and super duper charcoal, and oil as the liquid forms. Coal is a “rock” that is formed from plants, trees and organic material such as animals; while oil is the liquid form (hence the joke that oil is from dinosaurs). Oil is often found mingled in a layered rock called shale, and this is called “oil shale.” I’m really oversimplifying the science but this is a history lesson, not a science textbook. The discovery of coal by early modern humans was revolutionary, allowing even the poor to be reliably warmed and have access to cooking. Yes, coal was first mined for individual basis of heating. When I was a child playing in my back yard, I’d often find small pieces of coal scattered in the garden. My mother explained that not that long ago people had coal delivered to their homes and farms and that was what they burned for heat and for cooking, and they would dump the burned coal in their backyards, which was what I was finding.

Half of the energy generated in the United States today comes from coal, and we have the largest supply of coal reserves in the world. We are blessed in that regard, not cursed, obviously. Yet you’d never know that the way certain liberals and I don’t know how else to describe them but “moderns” have demonized coal, rather than thanking God for the richness of this land. People try to rationalize their irrational thoughts and feelings about coal and other forms of energy as being “dirty.” OK, let’s think about this. Liberals tend to be in charge of the media, such as Hollywood entertainment. We see endless films about “superheroes” who have heroic “powers,” who fly spaceships in the future, and fight for good against aliens or whatever. Yet, humans are considered by liberals as being too stupid to learn how to mine coal more safely, with less environmental damage, and more cleanly. We are supposed to develop ESP and super hero powers, flying all around the universe with our great wisdom, yet be too dumb ass stupid to figure out how to properly use the God given blessing of coal, despite the fact we have already demonstrated great improvements in the coal industry, with even better plans on the table.

The same thing is true about nuclear power where the USA has made a near fatal decision to not build nuclear power plants, or update the existing ones, for the past several decades. Humans with their “great wisdom” are supposed to find “cures for cancer and HIV/AIDS,” fly around the solar system as great astronauts “looking for life on Mars,” develop “ESP and super powers” (especially when ridding one’s self of “thetans” ha ha ha) and so forth, all while looking like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, yet humans are too damn stupid to figure out with better technology how to keep nuclear plants safe and dispose of the waste. Americans have swallowed that insult despite the fact that France supplies most of their energy through nuclear power plants (and Jerry Lewis did not design them). The very liberals who convince every child to want to be a “rapper,” a “ho,” a “superhero,” or a “mutant ninja turtle,” (to say nothing of being an “American Idol”), so that now eighty percent of kids want to grow up to be “famous,” don’t think that Americans are smart enough to figure out how to use nuclear energy safely, cleanly and cheaply. (It would have been cheap if Americans had not aborted that industry several decades ago, now the start up again costs all of us much more than it should have).

Who are the real idiots?

So Obama is “against” nuclear power plants. Obama is “against” coal and, in his own words, would tax any new coal power plants into bankruptcy and closing because *boo hoo hoo* “It emits that CARBON.”

Miners, and those of you who pay such high prices for fuel commuting to work, trying to raise your family, or make a living, any of you who vote for Obama when he has a cartoon character’s intelligence about energy and policy, you are at the very least seriously deluded, and at worse not so smart. I cannot believe that the Union endorsed Obama in May of this year. HOW DUMB IS THAT?

Let me close this posting with addressing what I mentioned up front, which is that the way to prosperity is through wise use of natural resources. This goes back to the root of the financial crisis of capitalism, where too many people tried to make too much money doing fake things in fake jobs. A country grows in prosperity when it creates real value out of the ground, rather than passing around imaginary dollars doing imaginary jobs. That is why no country remains prosperous once it loses its manufacturing base. There are two types of jobs, those that build something and those that serve something. In the 1970’s many wise people (myself included) worried that manufacturing (including agriculture) jobs were disappearing and being replaced with “service” jobs (entertainment, food, hospitality). When one is a farmer or manufacturer one is taking something with nominal value (the dirt, a mine, a piece of wood) and “finding” money in it by spending time making it usable by others. A service job, however, leaves nothing lasting, since it is doing something, not creating something. A country cannot ever be prosperous, or even survive, when all they have is service jobs. This is why China is on top now, because they gladly accepted all the agricultural and manufacturing jobs that were exiled and driven out of the United States. They will rise and be stable and prosperous because they will never allow themselves to be fooled into having only “service jobs,” as the United States did, of its own doing. I have worried and clucked over the shuttered farms and factories in this country for the past thirty years, and all people have cared about is who I loved (simple answer now, which is no one, I've loved no one at all for a long time now) and who I might have been in some mythical and demented belief in “past lives.” Well, welcome to your one and only real life. Rather than listening to me you are voting for someone who wants to speed up the decay and demise of this country since he doesn’t even understand the most basic lessons (such as above) about how economies work, and how humanity survives. I totally despair of how the demented dummies have taken charge (in both parties, since both Democrats and Republicans are infected with depressive new age delusions and total lack of understanding how to use faith and reasoning to make good life affirming decisions).