Weekend Rambler
And a green St.Patty's Day to Ya! Being of Scots-Irish blood, it tis a special day! Though not the Emerald Isle, certain times of the year this area has a fair resemblance, a lack of castles hurts.
-------I forget where I saw it but some interesting news about the fave car of the greenerati, the Toyota Prious, etal, it has nickel-cadmium batteries that last about 100,000 miles if that before they are toast. Nickel and cadmium are metals that must be mined as ore and processed into these batteries consuming vast amounts of energy and sulphor into the air. These mines are often massive strip pits much more damaging to the enviroment than a couple oil derricks. These batteries are made at a plant in Canada known as the SuperStacks that is largely responsible for the acid rain that has damaged large swaths of the region. They are then shipped around the world a few times before making it to your local lot and to top it off they don't get any better milage than a clean diesel engine in the same size car, that could run on veggie oil as well as diesel fuel, last much longer and cost half as much for the consumer. Plus what about all those old batteries, hmm maybe foresight is what is idealistic dreamers lack the most of? Dang that old cost vs. price conundrum that always comes back to bite the moonbats on the rear.
Nothing can touch fossil fuels for there return on the dollar in the amount of energy produced, biofuels are a niche fool's pipe dream. We can never fight or stop global warming that is part of earth's natural cycle. It should be changed to "Fight Pollution", a much more honest and actionable slogan and the free market is taking care of it very nicely because there is a demand for energy efficient products, clean air and water. The last thing we need is more government interference in the market.
The biggest challenge is how to store electric energy efficiently for later return making solar power more cost efficient, again we are dealing with batteries of some sort. Untill the electrical storage problem is solved, solar power and electric vehicles are but dreams still. Then again my neighbor has a vehicle that can go most anywhere, though a little slow and is powered by nothing but grass, and emits compost and methane, his horse of course, if you want to be that green join the Amish or move to a third world country.
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I saw where the greenies are trying to stop us four-wheelers from using the myriad of old logging roads in the NFS and BLM lands in Ca., I guess they got tired of hiking for miles to enjoy tofu from a can and some nuts to see some jeepers grilling steaks and trout and having a good ole time. Funny part is we always carry out far more trash than we bring in because we can, and is a major part of what us four-wheelers do is to clean up the back country we have access to. Most good NFS and BLM back country camping spots are maintained by folks like us that don't want to lose access to our cherished spots. I know many hidden sites that have been used for perhaps centuries that are spotless perfect campsites and remain that way because of folks like us that will bend the back to remove the scar of one that came before us and leave it always cleaner than we found it. If we find a spot desecrated with litter it is cleaned before camp is set and the area thouroughly policed ASAP, few things get my goat more than this. We carry garbage bags on the daily activities whether, fishing, panning, climbing, trail riding or walking and all litter is collected and carried out. By the way we are all conservative republicans. We hunt and fish and enjoy the wonder of the beauty, and return for the game we take, we take the tourist's garbage out with us. My friends and I are all hardcore conservationists, taking care of God's greatest gift to us besides life, He expects it of us. None of us come close to buying into Al Gore's clap-trap though we vary on man's contribution, those that watch the news and those that research and read a bit.
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Ok, the left and the isolationists decry the loss of industrial jobs in the US, correct? They also want to put the most stringent costly regulations possible on those same industries under union control, correct? Is it any wonder those companies want nothing to do with the US?
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It was in the Patriot Post this past friday where I saw the story on the Prious. So a Hummer does less damage to the enviroment and costs less to own and operate over its lifetime. Prious $3.50/mile hummer $1.75/mile.
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