Un-Liberaled Woman

Couldn’t say it better myself, Mr. Washington.

This past weekend on our road trip back to Peoria, IL,  my husband and I were discussing Barack Obama’s plans to make the US:

“The GREATEST Exporter of clean energy in the WOOOOOOOORLD!”

Okay, he didn’t really say it “exactly” like that, but you get the idea. President Unicorn Princess talked about this during Earth Day (via The Boston Globe)

Marking Earth Day, President Obama declared today that moving toward renewable energy is essential to America’s prosperity and announced that his administration will for the first time lease federal waters for projects to generate electricity from wind as well as from ocean currents and other renewable sources.

“We can remain the world’s leading importer of oil, or we can become the world’s leading exporter of clean energy.”

Now I’m not saying let’s continue relying on foreign oil because that ship is sailing in the future. But I’m for domestic drilling and then bridging the revenues which would come from that into R&D for technologies of tomorrow – primarily natural gas, renewable nuclear and clean coal. But instead of spending time on these innovative technologies, it’s like we have people in charge now of our nation’s energy plan who don’t know one freakin’ thing about how to build energy plants or how energy is transported from processing > the grid > county > household > the electrical appliance/switch you turn on. And the media doesn’t even call out Obama on his energy plans which are built on fallacies and the placating of facts.

Can somebody tell the guy who was “ready from day one” that a Nobel Laureate in Physics doesn’t automatically equate a brilliant strategist for negotiating domestic/foreign energy policies. Just because the guy is the smartest person in the room who would actually produce the new energy technology, doesn’t mean he’s the best person to develop business tactics to move countries toward adapting new energy policies.  Half the time it sounds like this guy doesn’t even know what he’s talking about.  Only in America!

Riddle me this Captain Koolaid, how in the world are you going to develop a technology that will transport electricity built on wind and solar across the ocean to other countries.

“Well, yuck, yuck, yuck, Beth, glad. you. asked. See kidos (aka American citizens who don’t know any better) we’re going to have a magical, invisible power grid that will absorb the natural energies of the earffff’s elements and then we’ll store it in a big tree in NeverNeverLand. This will allow us to collect clean energy reserves which we can then sell and cure the world of their reliable fossil fuel energy dependency. Then we’ll all hold hands, drink Coca Cola, and teach each other to sing Kumbayah.”

Oh, it must be just my pessimistic realistic knowledge that you cannot harness the electrical current on that massive of a scale not only with energy made from volatile and unreliable elements like the sun/wind, but even with our current fossil fuels. Or it could be the fact that I know you cannot have solar and wind electricity without a fossil fuel backup that must run constantly even when no actual energy is in use. Power is not something you can just turn on at the local plant when it’s not a sunny enough day outside for your beloved solar panels to work. You have to keep it constantly running and it has to be produced at an extremely higher voltage in a massive quantity in order for it to reach your house off of the grid. As electricity travels from the plant to your house it’s constantly being stripped down the further it travels. Now multiply this by the millions of people on the same grid.

Kind of puts this supposed “ease” of adapting green technologies in perspective, heh????

Wake up, folks! There are financial, logical reasons why solar energy and wind power are not popping up all over the place. One is that they are extremely expensive. For instance, with all the tax breaks today, it would still cost you around $25k to make your house entirely solar powered (via Go Green Live Rich) And even then you’d still have to have a backup feeding off the fossil-fuel backed power grid. Why? Because solar is unreliable – bottom line.

So is wind. But with wind as well, it’s not only super expensive to build but requires massive amounts of land to produce.  A lot of times the land required doesn’t meet the satisfaction of limo liberals like everyone’s favorite hypocrite Teddy “Gets Away With Murder to Salvage a Political Career” Kennedy. Drumrooooooooooll please…(via The Boston Globe)

But like a lot of well-to-do Cape and Islands landowners and sailing enthusiasts, Kennedy doesn’t want to share his Atlantic playground with an energy facility, no matter how clean, green, and nearly unseen. Last month he secretly arranged for a poison-pill amendment, never debated in either house of Congress, to be slipped into an unrelated Coast Guard bill. It would give the governor of Massachusetts, who just happens to be a wind farm opponent, unilateral authority to veto the Cape Wind project.

Gee, thanks Uncle Ted! Now everytime I hear one of you Dems up there spouting overblown lectures about how all us common folk in Middle America need to get on board with the clean energy policies we can’t afford, I’ll be sure to remember how you reacted when the world’s life saving energy policy was refused near your million-dollar Mcmansion.

And then there’s the other concept that since we won’t be able to physically export the “clean” energy, our administration really means for us to be in the business of exporting the technology. Again – WTF? Now we’re in the business of telling countries how to run their own policies. Yeah, cause even though Obama’s magical persuasive skills fell FLAT at the G-20 summit, they’ll somehow work now with countries like India and China.

Cue the hypocrisy question again to liberals – We can’t tell dictators “hey, stop development on enriching uranium programs or we’ll hold off diplomatic talks” OR “stop oppressing your people or we’re going to do something about it” OR “don’t harbor terrorists that attack the US’ …..BUT we can tell them how to run their own energy policies. Pffffffffff. O-ooookay.

This cracks me up. President Bush is lambasted by liberals when he refused to sign onto the Kyoto Treaty simply because it left China and India unaccountable. This is because Bush is a realist in that he understood you have to find a way to get these massive polluting countries on board on their own, and also not having these two major economic players on board would have a domino impact on the other economies participating in the treaty.  But President Obama just talks as if countries will fall in line simply because we produce these new “green” technologies and liberals praise him for it. Good grief. What’s the next step? Develop a Green Police to go in on behalf of the UN and make other countries do what we want them to do. Yeah, cause that worked so well on the national security front with North Korea and Iraq.

Watch, no joke – it’s going to happen. The UN or some failed partnership between US and France will develop the Reno 911 of Eco-Police. Lt. Dangle at your service.

Bad Boys, Bad Boys, watch gonna do when they come fooooooooooooooo’ you!

Again, as much as I would like to see our world become pro-environment I’m also a realist when it comes to how energy is produced, stored and distributed on a massive scale. I’m a big nuclear power proponent and am for modeling our renewable nuclear energy after France (except for the socialized part). Because of this knowledge it makes me LMFAO when I hear politicians talk about us creating “clean” energy as if it is something that exists but just our greed with fossil fuels is getting in the way. Riiiight (rolling eyes).

It would be more beneficial to the public to take a class on how power plants are built than to give everyone a “Celebrate Earth Day” bag.  Sad reality is that most people would rather take the bag to mindlessly consume more stuff than take 5 minutes to liberate their mind on the realities of energy policies.