Category Archives: De-Industrialization
Welcome to the New Green Dark Age
People in the UK will soon have an exciting new game to play at home. It’s called “Powerless” and promises to be fun for the whole family.
As Britain embraces the future of renewable energy, notably wind and solar, the boring old days of flipping a switch and being rewarded with instant, reliable energy are over. The wind doesn’t blow all the time and solar power only works in, well, sunlight. This means green energy generation is unreliable:
…blackouts could become a feature of power systems that replace reliable coal plants with wind turbines in order to meet greenhouse gas targets.
That’s a quote from Steve Holliday, CEO of the UK National Grid. But don’t worry, because the government has a plan:
Under the so-called “smart grid” that the UK is developing, the government-regulated utility will be able to decide when and where power should be delivered, to ensure that it meets the highest social purpose. Governments may, for example, decide that the needs of key industries take precedence over others, or that the needs of industry trump that of residential consumers. Governments would also be able to price power prohibitively if it is used for non-essential purposes.
Gingrich Praises NAFTA For Shipping American Jobs to Mexico
Youtube
March 16, 2011
“Back in the 90s I remember Ross Perot saying that there was going to be the giant sucking sound of jobs if NAFTA passed,” the caller said. “I think it ended up being true, right? And I know you were a big free trader.”
“Yeah, well, I don’t think it was true in Mexico,” he said. “I think the fact is that NAFTA allowed us to build jobs in Canada, the United States, and Mexico, in competition with China. I mean, our big competitor is not Mexico. Our big competitor is China and India. And I’d rather have jobs close to the United States than have jobs overseas in places like China and India.”
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3GcnHe9wDY&feature=player_embedded]
Inhofe: High Energy Prices Are Obama’s ‘Explicit Policy Goal’
Christopher Neefus
CNSNews.com
March 11, 2011
A prominent GOP senator on energy issues accused President Barack Obama Thursday morning of having set an “explicit policy goal” of making energy prices more costly for Americans.
“My message today is simply this: higher gas prices – indeed, higher prices for the energy we use – are an explicit policy goal of the Obama administration,” said Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla), ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. “Let me put it another way: the Obama administration is attacking affordable energy.”
Inhofe’s comments come as crude oil futures traded up on anxiety over unrest in the Middle East and broke the triple-digit mark in recent weeks. As of Thursday, light crude was trading at over $101 per barrel.
video:
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=hdaGnz4zSU&c1=0x1949C5&c2=0x227EB1
(ALERT!!!)Treason: Obama Shuts Down Power Plants Coast to Coast
From: Infowars
Fury is building over rolling nationwide blackouts triggered by the Obama administration’s deliberate agenda to block the construction of new coal-fired plants, as local energy companies struggle to meet Americans’ power demands amidst some of the coldest weather seen in decades.
LLRepublic.com 