Corruption and the Environmental Green Movement Myth

"Prices on electric cars will continue to drop until they're within reach of the average family."–The Washington Post. That was 1915.

I read an article written by John Stossel, Going "Green", exposing the liberal left's push to 'change' America's energy attitude. Al Gore claims we can transition, within 10 years, to clean renewable energy. A great fantasy but still only a fantasy. In equivalent hydrocarbons, the world population consumes 200 million barrels of oil per day. Any transition away from that will take many decades and more likely a century to accomplish. 90% of this energy consumed is produced by hydrocarbons – oil, coal and natural gas. It is simply not possible. Not because people refuse to give up driving their SUV's and trucks or switch light bulbs but one of simple physics.

Take wind energy for example. Sounds great, right? Wind turbines only produce 10% to 20% of their maximum output capacity because wind is not constant. During those idle times, conventional power plants must be kept online to pick up the energy demand. Same story with solar panels.

One nuclear power plant covers roughly 19 square miles. For a windmill farm to produce the same amount of energy, it would have to cover an area the size of Rhode Island. For Ethanol, another "green" fuel, to produce the same power, we would need a corn field the size of 24 Rhode Island's. Can you say "Energy Sprawl"? If Wind and solar energy were so practical, private entrepreneurs would have voluntarily invested in this technology long ago. There would be no need for government to take our money away and give it to people pushing the green products.

What about driving those zero emissions electric cars? Seems that many people think the electricity comes right out of the wall socket. If everyone switched to electric vehicles, the energy demand would overwhelm the power grid over night from all the recharging batteries. Again, it is a matter of simple physics. Gasoline contains 80 times the energy density of the best Li-Ion batteries. Which brings up another point. What happens to those batteries in a highway accident? Regardless of how many safety devices or how much protection and shielding the vehicle manufacturers engineer into these lighter electric cars, the potential always exists that the batteries will short circuit internally with explosive results. This is something the environmentalists don't want you to know.

Al Gore claims cleaner more efficient form of energy will stabilize the planet's climate. Not true. Al is pushing his green agenda for only one reason: Big Money. He has become rich by preying on people's fear of destroying the environment.

So, go ahead and ride a bicycle to work. Do it not to save a gallon of oil a day but to get in better physical shape. That gallon of oil saved, while it may seem like alot, is like a drop into 10 gasoline tanker trucks.