…and 150,000 manufacturing jobs get vapourized…
Imagine if the President had instead said today, “This new fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions rule will slow the increase in future global temperature seven thousandths of a degree Celsius by the end of this century, and it means the sea will rise six tenths of a millimeter less than it otherwise would over the same timeframe.” It loses some of its punch, no?
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More: “At the same time that the president was announcing the Californication of the country’s automobile fleet, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) was working to push through an anti-energy bill designed to export the Golden State’s failed energy model to the rest of the country. “
Good times!
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STARVE THE BEAST
My Goal is to cut government in half in 25yrs, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the Bathtub.
Grover Norquist: Leave us Alone
Getting the Govts Hands off our Money,Guns and lives.
I think you’ll all enjoy this video I just created from something Dennis Miller said yesterday about Al Gore & Global Warming hysteria.
“If you win, you’re a loser.” King of the Hill
Leftards constantly point to failures as the template for success. Not only is this retarded, it’s indicative of a self-loathing attitude.
I’d like to recommend a book called “Faith of the Fallen” by Terry Goodkind. It is the 7th or 8th book in the “Sword of Truth” series, but it is also a stand-alone novel. Read it yourself and buy one for your teen. Goodkind is very descriptive and violent(warning) but affective in making his point about socialism/fascism/communism. True there is better high-fantasy authors and books out there, but Goodkind is the best I’ve read when it comes to tackling the topic of individual responsibility. The Character Richard Cypher/Rahl(spoiler) is the personification of western values.
btw, please avoid the TV series “The Legend of the Seeker”. The series does not accurately reflect the books. It’s very watered down and doesn’t follow the story line(at all).
Oh ya, save yourself $15 and 2.5 hrs and avoid the movie Angels & Demons.
If it is so ridiculous, then you’ll be ridiculing Harper next, right?
Maybe you can remind readers of his promise in 2006 for a “made-in-Canada” environmental plan, too, while you are at it?
I’ve never seen a politician so desperate to cling onto their job since, well, since the last Prime Minister.
So you’ll start ridiculing Harper soon now too, right?
You may also want to remind readers of his promise for a “made-in-Canada” environmental plan while your at it. I’m worried that when Harper reads news about Obama being the first American Prime Minister, he thinks it’s true.
“”caliFornication” of the country’s automobile fleet.”
well….you got THAT right.
as i said in another post. give them billions and kill them with the stroke of the pen. see, the pen is mighter than the sword. please, do i have to say it . yes. stupid.
ted. go and inhale some co2
Ted:
Science will destroy your neo-paganism beliefs.
While your and your ilk have shouted ‘the science is settled,’ you have ignored the scientific fact that sunspot activity has decreased in a predictable pattern over the past decade.
The scientific evidence, around the Edmonton area at least, has measurably demonstrated that this Victoria Day weekend has been the coldest in the last 10 years.
Snow fell and this weekend was the first time the daytime highs failed to reach plus-10 since 1999.
That’s the science and, obviously and inconvenient fact for you Gaia worshippers.
Could you help make it warmer by offering up a sacrifice? Find the nearest volcano and jump into it. Gaia would be very pleased.
Old White Guy/Set Your Free:
What on this earth are you talking about?
I asked only if Harper, the Prime Minister of THIS country, is going to be held to the same standards applied to the leader of ANOTHER country?
What do people here think of our own leader, when he tells us he will have a “made-in-Canada” plan but then just waits and waits and waits and waits and then just swallows Obama’s plan?
What do people here think of our own leader, when he adopts plans that will be, according to commenters here, the “wasteful” “expensive” “Californication” of our own environmental laws that will not do anything for a problem that people think doesn’t exist (and a problem Harper, when he was principled, also though did not exist)?
Ted
“If you can’t beat them, join them”
That is what PMSH is doing. He’s not only protecting his job, he’s protecting the Canadian economy, especially central Canada’s. If the Americans continue on their current path and PMSH doesn’t comply with their prerequisites for doing business; then yes, PMSH does deserve to lose his job. Fortunately for Canadians and Americans our politicians have clued into the scam. The scam that was intended to move our money to our enemies wallets (ie China, Russia) via Kyoto is now finished. Unfortunately our politicians have also realized that this scam is too good to pass up; so, instead of a transfer to countries currently engaging in cold war with us, we will instead transfer wealth from red state to blue and from western Canadians to central Canadians. I suppose it’s the lesser of both evils.
PMSH needs to be commended for looking ahead of average Canadian Conservatives, seeing reality and acting on it. That’s why he’s our leader. PMSH is attempting to position all Canadians to be successful in the green bubble economy. What will be interesting, is when you and your ilk condemn Harper for going along with BO’s sham after it “All Falls Down “(K-West). Just as you now criticize the Conservatives for deficit budgeting that you and your ilk demanded by threat of coalition.
The real question is: How can you look at yourself in the mirror knowing that you’re so full of shit? The example people like you set for your children is appalling, you have no principles. You should be ashamed!
set you free: I think the volcano thing only works when you sacrifice virgins, and I’m sure none of our lefty trolls… oh, never mind.
Those poor Americans, they are so screwed.
I weep for the Americans. Not only for their stupidity in voting in Barrack HUSSEIN Obama as their president but the hell they are about to face because of this man and his crony’s. I only hope that they will soon wake up and realize what is happening to their country. Plus I pray to God that we here in Canada do not go down that same path, knock on wood.
Ted We sell cars into the US, we have to meet their standards or we don’t build them. It is bad enough we have skin in the game but to ignore reality is a compound fracture with the bone sticking through. Like it or not when the largest buyer of our goods changes the rules we don’t have a choice if we want a market for Canadian built goods.
Good video link, Robert W !! @ 2:29pm
Was bang-on with the “future Psychologist case-study in how Nutcase Al Gore stampeded the ‘believers’ to, well, just believe.”
I’ve never seen a politician so desperate to cling onto their job since, well, since the last Prime Minister.
~Ted at May 20, 2009 2:36 PM
The difference is that PMSH is desperate to keep the West in Canada and Canada intact, the last Prime Minister was a multi-millionaire whose steam ship line is flagged in Liberia and who played one part of Canada off against another.
That old slimy Liberal trick of riding to power the tensions they themselves create through hatred and envy, has got to crack the Dominion into pieces sooner rather than later.
Mamba:
I”m sure ted is a virgin.
If he’s not, he should be.
…and 150,000 manufacturing jobs get vapourized…
You could build an army with those people.
I hope that isn’t the plan.
Could Vitruvius possibly play “Send in the Clowns” for theme music whenever the topic of Soviet Obamerica arises?
O’s plans were to create thousands of jobs, but he seems intent on destroying more than he is creating. I wonder if he has/had any idea of how many jobs were with dealerships. He probably thought he was just getting rid of some rich owner. A lot of those people voted for him, but probably wont next time, and they might vote republican in 2010.
Canadian Sentinel: We’d all get sick of it very quickly.
“O’s plans were to create thousands of jobs, but he seems intent on destroying more than he is creating.”
Apparently 90% of the new jobs will be temporary; and, I’ll bet my bottom $$ that those jobs are low skill and low paying jobs.
SYF
It looks like we were responding to Ted at about the same time. It’s funny that we both used the phrase “you and your ilk” almost simultaneously.
You owe me a Coke!
Indy:
You owe me a virgin envoronmentalist. I need to toss one into a volcano to warm things up.
SYF, “virgin envoronmentalist” = Lizzie May,
Good luck finding a volcano crater big enough.
fisher:
I’d think Gaia would suffer from indigestion.
I guess Lizzy May doesn’t qualify as a virgin. Might be hard to find a virgin these days though, maybe she will have to be sacrified. It’s for gaia after all.
Good luck finding a volcano crater big enough.
You’d have to duct tape her mouth lest she snags a tooth on the rim and survive un-singed.
there was a company a few years ago called Tathacus. they had a process called Xogen, look it up. they got a bunch of indian bands to invest money in it. yes , your taxpayer money to create free digital energy (yes, their words)
heck of a scam , they claimed they were endorsed by Ralph Klein , had his mug plastered on their website, claimed to have a Alberta Research Council report showing 100% efficiency.
I got them suspended from trading for about 2.5 years with a quick phone call to the exchange. then they slid off the board.
no free energy, no free lunch.
google tathacus or xogen , some of the stuff is still around. but not your tax money,
Ive called my MP a few times but indian affairs doesnt like to look into it.
PS. tathacus was short for take that custer.
If you read the Hennesy link, you’ll notice that it is all “facty”. It doesn’t talk at all about how people should “feel” about these new standards, and consequently, it is of no value in any left wing analysis of this issue.
Ted, your links are broken, so your argument doesn’t really argue much.
Stephen Harper’s “made in Canada” enviro policy seems to be the least horrific waste of money that can be arranged in the current political environment. Dragging one’s heels can be an effective political method for avoiding things which are stupid but popular.
Seeing as how people like yourself are running that whole propaganda train Ted, its pretty hypocritical of you to be complaining he’s not swimming against the current fast enough.
You’d prefer the Obama pedal-to-the-metal version?
“Californication”?
CaliphfOrnicatiOn.
El-O’Narcissist is one twisted sister.
Incredible. The Americans have fallen off the cliff.
Jumped the Shark……
The problem with America is that it’s being governed by a black communist and a bunch of tax dodgers who were elected by a whole bunch of people who are angry that they have to work for a living.
He will work to change that the same way Fidel did it in Cuba.
When he is finished everyone can hang on the beach all day AND look good in their new slim trim bodies, since they will be eating a lot less.
The ONLY reason Gore’s BS got ANY traction at all is because many people (rightly or wrongly) had grown a hate on-for George W Bush! Gore even played on that in the opening words of his Inconvenient BS film.
Dummies (who believe in it)! You’ve been pwned!
Propaganda 101…
Politics aside, if the USA could double the fuel efficiency of their car fleet – nothing hard to do – they could reduce their oil imports by no less than 5 million barrels a day. At the going price for oil, that would mean 110$ billion a year less going into the pockets of Chavez, the Saudi royal family and similar characters.
Easiest way to double fuel economy is to halve the number of people who can afford to own cars.
Socialism 101…
“that would mean 110$ billion a year less going into the pockets of Chavez, the Saudi royal family and similar characters.”
You say that as though there’s nobody else out there who wants to buy it.
The four cars my family drives have mileage ratings from 42-51 miles per gallon.
Curiously, not one of them was manufactures by Government Motors and I will never consinder owning a car that has an Obama hood ornament on it.
Two hundred and fifty Canadian dealerships going down, ouch that’s gonna hurt. Sales staff, mechanics, parts staff, body shop staff, truckers, building maintenance staff, many more that I can’t thing of right now. All for what? Hope and change and green all over. I blame the leftards.
wuberman:
Had governments not shelled out billions of our dollars propping up the dying North Amercian car manufacturing industry in the past two decades, production capacity would have decreased naturally.
Another lesson learned here.
Let them fail! Somebody else will come along who can do it better.
set you free:
The trouble is, that the governments of Japan, China, Korea, India, and countless others, heavily subsidise their own industries in an effort to take market share and jobs from those who already have them (North America and Western Europe).
Globalization is on one level an attempt to get nations to stop fighting wars and start competing economically. So we get economic warfare.
The cost of having industry, now and in the future, will be that governments have to subsidise them and prop them up. Or they’ll just move to countries that throw money at them.
This Was The Moment When The Rise Of The Oceans Began To Slow
And the snow rollers began to roll.
/Whats Up With That?
antelope:
I forgot. Government money grown on trees.
GreenNeck-
There’s potentially about two-three times that 5 million BBl/Day in USA waters, N. Dakota-Montana, and in ANWAR and the Arctic off-shore. Too bad much of that will now go to the Cuban-Chinese and Russians.
BTW-I made fun of all of those yuppie Dems that wanted to move to Canada in 2000/2001. But…just how hard is it to get resident status in Alberta/Sask for an aging US engineer?
Kate:
The standard right-wing/cornucopian argument is that there is plenty of oil available, we can increase production at will, and the worldwide ‘limit’ of 85 MBPD is fixed by demand, not supply. So, no, there will not be someone else buying it, especially with the worldwide recession.
MikeInA:
Your numbers are out to lunch. This is not what even the most upbeat oil geologists say. Big reserves do not translate in big production. Most of the stuff you cite will be hard to produce. Just look at Alberta. Just look at the Alberta oil sands. There is more oil there than in Saudi Arabia. And yet it took 30 years and hundreds of billions to produce 1.3 mbpd, which a single Saudi field can do by simply poking a few holes in the ground.
Not all oil is created equal. Arguing that the USA could produce 20 mbpd if it were not for a few tree huggers makes you look silly. The US oil production peaked at 10 mbpd in 1970 (just crude), long before the term ‘tree hugger’ was coined. Oil is finite. Deal with it.
So, to make sure I understand what you just wrote:
a) if the US doesn’t buy oil from unpleasant supplying nations, they’ll be out that revenue because nobody else needs it either.
b) the world is running out of oil. Deal with it.
Thanks for clearing that up.
C’mon Kate, you’re smarter than that.
If you truly believe the cornucopian nonsense, you’d never have made that comment about others buying what the US won’t need anymore. This is the same as saying there is not enough oil produced now to go around, and that we may have hit peak production. Is that what you say?
Sorry green-boy, your logic doesn’t hold. If your argument is that “Oil is finite” then what’s the problem with us using it first?
You ecotards jump from one bogus argument to another. If you were serious about greenhouse gasses you’d be the #1 advocate for nuke power. Wouldn’t you? The bottom line is: you don’t really believe humans are flirting with catastrophe(do you?), you are simply playing politics. Proof? What’s your position on: water-boarding, gay marriage, gun control, Afghanistan, Iraq, abortion, hate speech (HRC’S), private healthcare, Gitmo?
Show me one example of you not towing the socialist line and I might believe your nonsense.
btw, it’s you that’s wrong, with current demand and growth accounted for, and the current technology there is enough oil to last for approximately 100 years. All of the technology may not be cost effective today, but that technology will be improved, but you already know that too. After all, you’re in the mining industry aren’t you? I thought not. I suspect you are scientifically inadequate regarding this issue. More than likely you are a parrot mimicking something that you’ve heard.