Thursday, February 02, 2006

You want miasma, here. Here's your miasma.

Addicted to Polls
Wall Street Journal
February 2, 2006; Page A10

President Bush has seen the energy future, and he has two words of advice: wood chips. Somewhere in his cardigan sweater next to a fireplace, Jimmy Carter is smiling.

That gets to the uncomfortable heart of Mr. Bush's startling turn on energy policy Tuesday night. An Administration that once promoted drilling in Alaska and other ways to expand domestic oil and gas supplies is now lecturing the nation that it's "addicted to oil" and extolling the merits of cellulosic biomass, a k a wood chips. This may not be as bad as 1970s-style price controls, but it's also a long way from a sensible energy policy.


I'm not going to continue.  I'm going to start my own country, and you're not invited, but you are.  You know who's who.  I feel about this nation right now about the same way I do my garage.  There's a lot of good stuff out there, but I just don't see a way to straighten it out.  I think a fire would be best, and rebuild from the beginning.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank goodness you admitted that's your garage. I thought you snagged a photo of ours w/that high speed computer of yours! But seriously...

When I heard my President make those comments regarding ethanol and followed with a nuclear power link, I took it as a (sort of)line in the sand for the TreeHuggers. These manical environs want to halt anything that would allow us to supply our own resources because they think we should travel backward w/Rod Taylor in his time machine.

So, if we can't drill ANYWHERE in our own country, then how about this? Nuclear power. My god they must've cr*pped their pants at that one. Anyway, because I'm destined to start w/optimism before pessimism, I'm hoping those comments were a between the lines message. Sound to simple and goofy to you, Rodger? Feel free to upgrade my thinking. joyce

Jake said...

Joyce:

Well, he did reveal important secrets. He showed us a picture of the nuclear reactor he is building in is garage. From analysis of the picture, I have determined he is 80% done.

Soon Roger will fly to Europe to get $200 million from the EU to dismantle his reactor.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, Jake! Good response and fully due. Thanks. You are a master at satire. :D joyce

MoFiZiX Gr4FiX said...

You need to start your own little empire like the Emperor Darth Misha did. You can call it Schlongsylvania or Schlongtopia. Emperor Schlong does sounds catchy.

Anonymous said...

You need a chemist. Haven't practiced lately, but know I can run a still without a thermometer. No nasty methanol in the hooch.

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