Thursday, August 4, 2011

Yet Another Reason I Am A Republican!

The Republican Party is responsible for the passing of the Civil Rights Act 1866, Reconstruction Act of 1867, Freedman Bureau Extension Act of 1866, Enforcement Act of 1870, Force Act of 1871, Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, Civil Rights Act of 1875, Civil Rights Act of 1957 and Civil Rights Act of 1960. Black Americans, please take a moment to say "Thank You" to the GOP!

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

A Message To All My Tree Hugging Liberal Friends!

Tree hugging Liberals and other uber environmentalists take great comfort in the emergence of electric cars, the production and sale of which are completely subsidized by the Federal Government. Because they emit no carbon exhaust they are allegedly deemed to be cleaner than the conventional internal combustion engine ( and much cleaner than the rumbling diesels), and therefore better for the environment. There is however at least one very inconvenient fact that interferes with this point of view which is that 64% of our electricity comes from coal burning power plants, which produce carbon emissions several orders of magnitude greater than the entire national fleet of privately owned automobiles.

Oh, and by the way, most of these coal burning pollution plants are built and maintained by General Electric, you remember the company that for the 2010 tax year, paid no federal income tax, due to ( drum roll please ) clean energy tax credits, most of which are granted for the manufacture and sale of water saving washing machines that leave our clothes not quite as clean as in years past. One couldn’t make this stuff up if one tried!

There are other inconvenient facts, including among which are that a sizable portion of the remaining electric power in this country is provided by nuclear power plants (with their own issues of waste disposal and environmental risk) , also a perennial whipping boy of the uber left environmentalists.

Every time we see a hybrid automobile, we should understand that it is really a coal and nuclear powered car. So, as our liberal tree hugging friends drive around in their hybrids sporting that self-satisfied , self congratulatory smugness , we can look back at them with a bit of smugness of our own, knowing the folly of their self-important misconceptions.

After having had some time to do some research I came across three numbers to remember, 75, 115, and 200. These are the grams of CO2 emitted per kilometer of an efficient (late model) diesel automobile, an efficient conventional gasoline auto and an "electric" car powered by coal, RESPECTIVELY.