Al Gore, Prohibitionist
Paul Chesser, Climate Strategies Watch
July 18, 2008
Paul Chesser, Climate Strategies Watch
Economist friend Dr. David Tuerck, executive director of the Beacon Hill Institute based at Suffolk University in Boston, had this to say yesterday in response to Al Gore's speech on going 100-percent to renewable sources for energy generation:
"Al Gore wants to be Rachel Carson but has revealed himself to be Carrie Nation. He talks about protecting the environment, when all the while he really just wants to banish fossil fuels from the marketplace.
"There is no better example of his prohibitionist mentality than his recent demand that the United States produce 100 percent of its electricity from renewable and carbon-free sources in 10 years. Only about 30 percent of our electricity currently comes from these sources. The question is what will happen to the fossil fuels that are used to make the remaining 70 percent, once those fuels are no longer used to produce electricity. The answer is that they will find their way to the market place to be used, as they are now, to produce energy, whether in the United States or abroad.
"A “strategic initiative” that is aimed at substituting alternative fuels for fossil fuels in the production of one kind of energy is doomed to failure unless it somehow eliminates the value of using the same fossil fuels to produce other kinds of energy. If Mr. Gore really wants to spur the United States and other countries to use alternative fuels to produce electricity or any kind of energy, he should just sponsor legislation to prohibit the use of fossil fuels. Otherwise, he is just blowing smoke."
Beacon Hill has weighed in on the absurd economic claims promoted by various state climate commissions.
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There are some of us who know what compels this anti global warming deflection you are trying to promote. Non profit huh? How about a list of your contributers and we will see how many steps it takes to find the corporations they are tied to and what they are really afraid of. If you are afraid of losing jobs or profits, you folks need to get on board or you will go the way of GM. Denial has not served them too well. Just think where they would be if they didn't kill the electric car. Anyone who thinks we should continue with this cycle of oil-debt-pollution -resentment-terror, certainly does not have the best interest of the people of the United States in mind.
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My comment on Al Gore's proposal is intended to pose a simple question: "If he stops the electric utility industry in the United States from burning fossil fuels, how will he prevent other industries and other countries from burning the same fuels?" The answer is that he will not. Which is why his proposal is just an enormous, costly distraction. It amounts to a policy of forcing U.S. electric power consumers to subsidize those other consumers for whom fossil fuels will continue to provide energy. And it does nothing to stop the burning of fossil fuels or to achieve the assorted real or imaginary goals for which Gore stands.
Al Gore, prohibitionist
Go ahead and link back to all the firms that support the site. Then we'll find the links to every .org that contributes to the Church of Global Warmism. We'll find the longest list of Marxist, anti-capitalist, enviro-terrorists, ignorant high-schoolers and assorted moonbats with agendae that makes Fascist Germany look like a Libertarian state.
The bottom line is that energy producers deliver what the market tells them to deliver. If you want solar and wind power, then you go buy it. If you don't, please close the hole under your nose.