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link Green Cars Have a Dirty Little Secret.

We see this often these days.  People are so smart that they are actually dumb.   From the very first time that Cro-Magnon man picked up a stick to beat up an adversary, necessity has always been the mother of invention.  That’s the way it works.  People will always tinker with things just for the intellectual amusement of tinkering, but for the most part, inventions make it to general usage because there’s a practical and commercial utility to it.  Some inventions are really of marginal utility; they exist only because someone sold the idea of its usefulness.  The electric toothbrush is such an example.  I’m sure many would be lost if they had to manually brush their teeth.  Up, down, up, down, oh the humanity.   Still, it does fulfill some consumer need.

For this reason, my invention of a gas powered pillow fluffer never took off as I had originally anticipated.  Neither did my solar powered dog polisher,  or hand cranked nose hair plucker.   Because of the mass delusion that has been foisted on a naive public by global warming zealots over the past few generations,  vast resources have been given to people preaching the quixotic vision of green power.   While it’s hard to argue with the general intent of this vision, the free market has not adopted the results of the “innovations” thus far.  In the case of many consumer items today, the populace have come to embrace the whole notion of green/sustainable/organic/natural items.  It’s only a matter of time before they start selling shoes made of seaweed at Whole Foods.  They’re only good for about 300 steps, but at least they are green.  In the case of battery powered green cars, the resources put in compared to the results achieved are truly dismal despite what the optimists claim.

Spending $40,000 to buy an electric vehicle with the lofty range of 60 miles would have no commercial takers unless you were a) an idiot, b) a zealot, c) too rich for your own good, or d) all of the above, the worst possible combination.   Instead of spending untold billions of taxpayer dollars to fund technology that is inherently flawed, the simplest solution is right in front of us.

Buy cars with smaller engines.  The internal combustion engine has been around for a long time and has gone through numerous refinements by all manufacturers.  They have never been more efficient in power transmission and continue to be cleaner burning as well.  Porsche goes as far as to claim that the air going in to their engines is not as clean as the air coming out of their exhaust pipes.  That may be a stretch, but if you’ve ever breathed the air in Beijing or Shanghai, it’s somewhat believable.  Regardless, the technology already exists for fuel sipping small displacement engines that are as efficient as some so called green electric vehicles, especially when factoring in the cost of battery production.  More importantly,  the biggest advantage of existing gas powered cars is that people can actually afford them and are able to plan trips beyond the range of what their eyes can see.   A road trip in an electric car is essentially a ride to the city limits.

In this day and age, with a gas station every mile or so in most cities, idiots still manage to run out of gas.  What makes people think there will be charging stations available when the battery goes kaput while on their way to a doctor’s appointment?  The irony is that they will call the automobile club for a rescue.  They of course will show up with a gas powered car.   If people really want to push the green powered nonsense, maybe they can bring back horses and covered wagons.  We know horses are good for at least 60 miles, although acceleration is nothing to brag about.

link School turns heating off to ‘save planet’ | The Sun |News.

And speaking of morons, the hits just keep on coming.   When people with questionable judgement are placed into positions of power or influence, only grief can ensue.   Surely people such as this headmaster have suffered some kind of physiological injury because there has obviously been a severance of the cord connecting his brain hemispheres.   At the very least, the logic wire has come loose.

If the entire global green movement is to have any credibility at all, they should at least be honest about what the end goals are.  If you follow the string of logic to its ultimate conclusion, the end game is to wipe mankind completely off the planet.  Which is of course, preposterous.  But that’s the only possible way by which all human damage to the planet can be halted.

Who knew that when the first Neanderthal rubbed a couple of sticks together to make a fire that this was the beginning of the end for mankind?   (And they still have the nerve to show their faces on insurance commercials for Geico….shameless ).  From that moment on, it was as if the light bulb went off for mankind as to how to make their existence better.  Now that they discovered how to warm themselves from the elements, it was only a matter of time before cooked food was next.   Fast forward millions of years later and we have New York City.  What the earthies are trying to do is turn the clock back on all of this.  If the green movement is to gain any credibility at all from here, why not just be blunt about what they’re after?  At the moment, they’re pushing the notion of windmills and bicycles, but we all know that’s as likely to last as long as a paycheck in a casino.  To really eliminate any possible scarring of the earths’ delicate eco-system, man has to go.

Do the earthies really think people will resume living in caves, foraging for berries and chasing animals for food?  The entire basis for the existence of all life from amoebas to zebras is the basic struggle of the organism versus the environment.  Survivors adapt, procreate and populate.  Non adaptors get eaten or go extinct.  Some guy named Darwin wrote an article about that at the turn of the century.  The very fact that most humans have developed a superior brain to all other living creatures confers upon them a certain latitude to modify their environment for better living.   There’s no point in having superior reasoning and thinking skills yet still live in the same circumstances as a brown bear in the log hollow just down the path.  That’s preposterous.  That’s why we build condos.

Is the world a better place if people were stripped of their ability to travel, to invent, to mix cultures, to watch football, to eat cooked food?  Look at the tribes living in the African Serengeti Plains.  I don’t see lots of people like Headmaster goofball moving there for the simple life.  This whole save the earth movement should set an example by setting up camp somewhere in Africa and show us all how it’s done…with no internet access.