Comments on: NYT: Solar/Wind Power Could Backfire

By: Grassy Knoll

Grassy Knoll — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:24:19 +0000

So I guess the only solution to this mess is that all humans should just check out and leave this nice planet alone. OK, Mr. Revkin; you go first.

By: Confucius

Confucius — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:51:47 +0000

Mr. Revkin doesn’t need to worry. It’ll be light-years before the Enterprise returns from the Delta quadrant.

Somebody needs a crazy-pill . . . .

By: proreason

proreason — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:11:47 +0000

“your power bill will roughly double.”

plus the cost of replacement batteries
plus the problems recharging away from home, or if there is a weather related power failure
plus the extra maintenance costs because parts of the power train are handled two ways.
plus the cost of electicity will increase if there are millions of them, and the grid will be stressed, which might actually result in more co2, not less.
plus the cost of retooling huge factories
plus the risk of commiting $20K+ to a vehicle that might be completely obsolete in a few yrears.

Probably the biggest issue is that any conversion from one major system to another is fraught with unforeseen costs and risks. That’s why major computer system implementations frequently fail and are abandoned.

Liberals never think things through. It’s all emotion for them.

By: 1sttofight

1sttofight — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:53:43 +0000

They also never mention that with the current crop of plug in electric cars, your power bill will roughly double.

By: bill

bill — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:07:09 +0000

No one ever wants to talk about where they get the power to build to solar panels and the windmills. Like with plug-in cars, you just plug them in, right?

The liberal mind is really a very tiny place.

By: catie

catie — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:49:48 +0000

I saw some crazy show a few months back where this clown was saying what was going to happen to the world when all the humans were no longer here. He said he was “excited” about it.

By: proreason

proreason — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:05:57 +0000

You really have be concerned for the sanity of some of these fools.

By: Trogdor

Trogdor — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:37:25 +0000

I read an EO Wilson book, “the creation: an appeal to save life on earth”. It started off saying the he was going to put metaphysical ideas of evolution and creation behind, and then proceeded for the rest of the book to hammer that evolution was the only possible explanation and that Christians should just stick with cooking our meals on guttering fires using fuelwood or dung harvested mainly by girls who are not going to school as a result.

In exchange of my reading that piece of crap, my liberal friend read Mark Steyn’s “America Alone”. He admitted to agreeing with most of what Steyn said.

I guess I’m a closed minded troglodyte because I didn’t agree with much of anything EO Wilson said. /sarc

By: Right of the People

Right of the People — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:31:54 +0000

He’s right, let’s can all forms of alternative energy, we wouldn’t want to upset Mother Nature now would we? Give me that good ol’ pollutin’ oil and gas. The libs are never happy, I agree with both Media_man and Trogdor, if we got rid of all the liberals what a wonderful world it would be, and cleaner too.

10-7

By: Trogdor

Trogdor — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:27:52 +0000

and I think they would do us a big service by offing themselves first.

By: Media_man

Media_man — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:12:32 +0000

I guess Revkin yearns for the day when the planet is human free. This seems to be the sentiment across the board for most liberals.