Look, by now you should know that I am no fan of Obama. However, I am a BIG fan of me. And when it comes to me, I like to apply the concept of “value” in my life. In fact, I was describing just such a concept to my 1st grader this afternoon. We were discussing haircuts and price. See, I don’t like to spend money on haircuts AND I don’t like crappy haircuts. So, this means that I often times don’t get haircuts even when I need ’em. Further, because I will only purchase cheap haircuts, Ii have to drive to where they further reducing how often I get them. Anyway, we priced a trim right next door to the grocery today and we began discussing value.
Back to the point–energy. Look, I am a market believer AND I am a environment believer. I enjoy both. And so it is that I don’t like to pollute and destroy the nature that we live in [at the same time that I have a decent sized piece of property in rural Wake county that maybe isn’t very environmentally sound] AND I enjoy low energy bills. What this means is that I like to spend less on gas and electricity than I do spending more. And, according to almost everyone, you can’t have both.
See, we are stuck in the new “Don’t Pollute” meme. In the past, you had the Indian riding the horse with a tear in his eye as he surveyed the land around him being destroyed. Now, now you have the polar bear floating away on melting ice as he becomes extinct. And I wonder how it works that these things are bought into every time. I don’t know–maybe it’s because the young watch more tv and are more vocal than the elders? Not sure.
But here ya have it. Because of global warming, we have to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. And, and if that doesn’t work, then we have to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels because we import oil from countries that hate us. And, again, if that doesn’t work, then we have to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels because we’ll run out. Wow. It’s tiring.
I guess the point of all of this is this story by WRAL:
Imagine your power bill going up by $200 a month.
Progress Energy spokesman Mike Hughes said Thursday that it’s a possibility under President Barack Obama’s energy plan that narrowly passed the U.S. House of Representatives last week.
The bill, which Obama has said will reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil and clean the air, calls for a reduction of carbon emissions by 17 percent by 2020, and for 20 percent of the nation’s energy to be renewable – such as wind and solar – by 2020.
In the end, Liberals are not so much about doing much of anything on their own, they are more interested in dictating to others who they should spend THEIR money. As such, I don’t suspect that this will actually come to fruition, but if it does, can you imagine what the impact would be on our economy?