40 Replies to “Ban All The Things”

    1. Basic progressive tactic:

      1) create fake issue to get elected by low information voters
      2) fake data to promote how bad issue is
      3) create bureaucracy to fight issue
      4) collect tax dollars
      5) scatter tax dollars to friends and family
      6) announce (and re-announce, and re-re-announce) worthless projects and goals
      7) don’t meet goals
      8) blame your enemies for failure
      9) increase size of bureaucracy and re-set goals
      10) repeat until re-elected

  1. So gas powered furnaces, water heaters and fireplaces are…not harmful? Just the food preparation applications of gas are…got it. 😉

    1. SR

      I’m sure there’s another ‘study’ in preparation that will condemn gas home heating and gas water heating as polluters.

      Perhaps it will be the emission of the dreaded ecum secum molecule!

  2. Note that there’s benzene in the smoke from burning wood in a wood stove alternative too. The soot from burning wood can cause a lot more problems like asthma – soot is toxic. As for leaking gas stoves – fix them. The article I read on the study had no numbers. Just hand waving baseless statements with no comparisons to the alternatives. Want to know what’s bad to breathe in? Walking through the smoke haze of a Shanghai shantytown in the early morning when people are cooking breakfasts beside the narrow winding street over burning barrels. The poor don’t care about virtuous gas stove bans.

  3. I think they sent it up as a trial balloon to gauge public reaction. The blowback was pretty spectacular.

    @GlobalNational
    U.S. eyes ban on gas stoves due to health risks. Should Canada do the same? http://dlvr.it/Sgk6CT

    Our media is so insufferable.

  4. Andy Lee rocking it again!

    All while paid journalist zombies read the memo from their superiors. (The Guv)

    1. Actually, Amory Lovins, one of the founding principals of RMI, was exactly decrying the use of electricity for heating 50 years ago. He was a young nerd who toured universities in the early 70’s talking down hydro and nuclear saying that electricity was an inefficient power source for heating. Back then both Hydro Quebec and Ontario Hydro were pushing cheap electrical heating. By time the 80’s came around it was already too expensive and people were regretting having made the conversion. Hard to imagine what electrical heating costs now and in the not too distant future. I remember sitting through that ridiculous presentation in university back then. Lovins and the RMI have been scraping subsidies from governments ever since then. Now they’re into harvesting funding out of NGO’s and other soft brained liberal foundations.

      1. McLovins liked to brag about growing bananas year round in the RMI atrium in Colorado.
        Its possible and encouraged to design new buildings for economic use of energy. Just tell that to the glass tower condo developers, duh?

      2. Greg, quite right. Lovins was notorious for being caught falsifying his credentials while trying to testify as an expert “consulting physicist” to the Limerick 3 public hearing. He’s at least as big a fraud as his contemporary Ralph Nader.

    1. How would you like it if your kid died of carbon monoxide poisoning?
      See how that works, Mr. “how would you like it of an e-bike battery burned down your house?”
      You are just another one of the idiots you decry, screaming for state protection against that which you have been programed to fear.

  5. A ‘green energy transition’ is where you go from cheap, abundant energy that lifts up everyone, to a manufactured shortage designed to enrich those in power and their donors, and keep the little people in their place.

    1. …and if people who frequent this site get their way, you won’t even be able to store what little power you get, for the children, no less.

  6. Many years ago, RMI was hired by a client I was working with, to consult on how to better execute capital projects in the oil industry. One of their recommendations was to layout the plant to minimize the number of elbows in the pipes, because straight pipes have less flow resistance and this would save money on power to drive pumps and compressors. No understanding of pipe stress issues, or that trying to make pipes straight means stuff is further apart, and therefore you buy more pipe, and more steel, and need more land.

  7. You will not need gas or electricity, or food, unless you are a person approved by the State!

    Eat the bugs! For now, I mean, while the State allows it.

  8. offices of the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) – a WEF partner should immediately be (fi_re_bom bed) along with every other w e f org

  9. Most homes electric meters are “smart”, allowing remote shutdown and rationing. As yet, gas meters do not allow this feature. Not that I distrust the gubmint

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