31 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans”

  2. And it was technically impossible to make videos like this for the last 20 years because why?
    Why have the oil and gas companies been complicit in the Great Global Warming Swindle instead of fighting it every step of the way?

  3. Oil and Gas companies have been complicit because the spin doctors (corporate communications experts) that advise the brass tell them that it’s too self serving to criticize the use of unreliables and that they will be perceived as so much more enlightened to be seen embracing the green blob. Also, many CEOs have personal exit strategies that kick-in before any of this shit has any impact. Short answer – corporate cowardice.

  4. It’s too self serving to criticize the use of unreliables so instead they remained silent and served themselves that way instead while being both immoral and unethical.
    Got it.
    I’d ask them how they sleep at night, but they’d probably answer, “On silk sheets.”

  5. “…corporate cowardice.”
    Those corporations weren’t formed to be brave. The were formed to make their owners as much profit as they could, as quickly as they could, as easily as they could.

  6. Come on … the solution is simple. Windmills like they used to have in Holland. All wooden structures with sailcloth covered propellers. And we could employ 10,000 carpenters and sail makers to maintain the hundreds of thousands of these structures needed to provide our energy. Just THINK of all the new, clean, green jobs we will create. Jobs that can easily be accomplished by Muslim immigrants.

  7. Well, no. Oil and gas companies have supported RE because they too have very clever engineers and system analysts. They have understood that RE cannot replace oil, coal and gas. In fact, RE means greater use of gas, not less.
    However, nuclear does mean less use of oil and coal. Which is why the oil companies have been funding antinuclear groups lavishly for more than 35 years. It’s why oil company money is funding a large part of the movement in Ontario to force the premature closure of Pickering.

  8. Well, no. Oil and gas companies have supported RE because they too have very clever engineers and system analysts. They have understood that RE cannot replace oil, coal and gas. In fact, RE means greater use of gas, not less.
    However, nuclear does mean less use of oil and coal. Which is why the oil companies have been funding antinuclear groups lavishly for more than 35 years. It’s why oil company money is funding a large part of the movement in Ontario to force the premature closure of Pickering.

  10. imagine, somebody saying something that I knew and said when the first wind turbines and solar panels were shoved down out throats.

  11. Plus, they know that “governments” will turn a blind eye to higher gas prices so as to force reduced use. Governments get their reduced CO2, and oil companies get higher profit margins, well till oil wars hit:-))

  12. “I’d ask them how they sleep at night, but they’d probably answer, “On silk sheets.””
    Silk sheets on a mattress made of money.
    Windmills are huge money for steel companies, concrete and construction, trucking etc.
    Oil companies support windmills because of GAS TURBINES, which burn gas to smooth out the dips in the grid. Also, natural gas has historically been mostly a waste product, flared off. Now, they can sell as much as they can make.
    Pipeline companies support windmills because of the GAS TURBINES which need gas lines.
    Et cetera. So really, what we have is gas powered electrical generation with some fancy towers that chop up birds to salve the conciences of idiots. Gas is the most expensive way to make electricity. Anybody with a brain can tell you that.
    But, the fact that the windmill part doesn’t work is unimportant. What counts is gettin’ paid. Extort money from the Masses for one more boondoggle, who cares? The Masses will put up with it. They always do.
    And we did. They did it to us again, and we let them. We are well trained masses. Good doggie! Here’s a pet on the head. No biscuit though.

  13. “We [don’t] have to choose between pipelines or railcars.”
    I’m sure that when the time comes, we will only be allowed to choose railcars.

  15. Scientific illiteracy is a big problem. It’s why politicians, the media and eco-activists can get away with a vapid slogan like “Go Green”. With electricity once you start talking numbers, dollars and technical issues that idealistic dream quickly falls apart. Unfortunately, the usual suspects don’t bother with hard facts. They shovel taxpayer dollars into these Go Green schemes (and often their own pockets)and by the time it becomes obvious the Green Dream is actually a nightmare, the damage is done.
    Does anyone remember when investing money into utility companies was considered safe enough for widows and orphans? Or when energy poverty was a rare, barely heard of issue in rich countries? What happened to those safe, well run operations that provided affordable, reliable power and good shareholder returns? Top men in government, of course. Cheered on by the media, liberal arts academics and progressive activists. All groups that are profoundly scientifically illiterate, yet incredibly arrogant and self-righteousness. They should have left utilities in the hands of actual experts – engineers, trades, technicians- people concerned with electricity production, not ideological and political posturing.

  18. “Does anyone remember when investing money into utility companies was considered safe enough for widows and orphans?”
    I remember how in 1999? the PC government in Alberta was going to save money for consumers by bringing competition to the utilities. Power rates immediately went from 3 cents to 18 cents per kwh. The government froze it at 12 cents to prevent riots in the streets. The freeze really wasn’t a freeze, just a deferral because when the price went below 12 cents we stuck at 12 cents until we paid back the deferred amount. In my humble opinion it was all a scam to give friends of the PCs a payoff. Under the Bolsheviks my rate seems to be stuck at 12 cents which is a good thing.
    The new system added risk to the power industry which demands the greater return of equity investments instead of a rock solid return akin to interest. In a regulated environment bankruptcy was not a possibility.

  19. There’s pros and cons to deregulation and competition from what I’ve read. The biggest determinant seems to be the way the legislation is written but also corruption and collusion in the electrical company head offices (remember California).
    Out of curiosity how does Alberta compare to other NA states and provinces? Not just per kwh but total cost for 1000 kwh per month (the government and utilities like to play hide and seek games by raise costs like delivery charges, global adjustment, other fees and taxes.) Using a baseline of total charges on 1000 kwh per month, how much has it increased since 1999 compared to other states and provinces? I ask because I suspect that if electricity rates were reported this way then it would show that the amount mandated Green Energy initiatives correlates well with high total monthly prices on 1000 kwh. It might also show the effects of deregulation and competition.

  20. It is unfortunate that we don’t have folks asking questions of what is going with some the world’s largest defense contractors. Looks like huge amounts of cash are disappearing with little account ability. My view would be that the low cost, cheap energy problem was solved eons ago but is being covered up because just a few people would be thrown off their gravy train. Check out “secret space program” on utube.

  21. One additional thought, private companies do need to have a return in investment. What everyone forgets is that provincially owned utilities provide a dividend to the government and, eventually, every government NDP or conservative raids SaskPower and SaskEnergy which results in deferred maintenance and delayed upgrades.

  22. If you are an energy company it really doesn’t matter what form of energy you produce. Thus Suncor which owns much of the oilsands production also owns many of the windmills. Its a win win situation. IOW the government IS subsidizing the oil companies – To own and operate windmills.

  23. You are EXACTLY right. THAT IS the reason “big oil” has essentially partnered with “big green”. Any and all restrictions placed on new oil extraction or delivery simply drives up the price of the commodity they deliver. Big oil has gotten RICH … filthy effing RICH off the worldwide “green” global warming ruse. You don’t think “big oil” is being run by Gender Studies graduates, do you ? They know exactly what is best for the bottom line.

  28. … and are selling their FAKE contraptions to a public who is greedy for virtue-points that will cancel out their liberal-guilt for being born into a fully-developed Western culture that has essentially ERASED any “need” from their lives. A gullible leftist population who are desperately searching for meaning for their GOD-less existence. They will trade ALL their silver, just to find “meaning”. Sad really. Pathetic and sad.

  29. FAKE contraptions
    Wonderful terminology Kenji. The “fake news” label caught on bigly, perhaps yours will too. I know I’ll be using it.

  31. This is really fascinating, You’re an overly professional blogger.
    I’ve joined your rss feed and stay up for looking for extra of your great
    post. Also, I’ve shared your web site in my social networks

Proudly powered by WordPress & Skyrocket Themes

MENU

Navigation