Vote Blue, Go Green, Ruin Britain. – Telegraph Blogs

what I felt instead was the sort of detached, sardonic amusement an alien might feel on viewing from outer space a once-great civilisation destroying itself over an issue of immeasurable triviality.

That issue, of course, is “Climate Change”. Never before in history, I doubt, has so much money ever been squandered, so much suffering and poverty exascerbated, so much economic damage been inflicted, so many lies promulgated and so much environmental destruction wrought in order to deal with a problem so microscopically miniscule. Really, if Barack Obama were to declare war on Belgium because he’d always found Tintin Au Congo offensively racist, or if David Cameron were to launch a nuclear strike on Mykonos because all those white-painted buildings were “way too gay”, you still wouldn’t be even half way close to equalling the quite breathtaking stupidity, purblind ignorance and suicidal wrongheadedness of the disasters currently being inflicted on the world by our boneheaded political and administrative classes on their holy mission to “combat climate change.”

Green cronyism in the Northwest under one party rule

Here is a good example of how government functions in the Pacific Northwest. Democratic Washington State Senator Phil Rockefeller resigns/retires from his elected seat and is appointed by Governor Gregoire to a $95,000/year job managing the Global Warming agenda on the Northwest Power and Conservation Council funded by the Bonneville Power Administration.

Does Senator Rockefeller have any technical background that might help him understand our power grid or our climate? No.

» The Pickens Plan and Crony Capitalism - Big Government

But where the Pickens Plan starts to go awry is when you look at the nuts and bolts of how the Plan would work. First, as many know, American cars and big rigs don’t currently run on natural gas, so there would have to be a massive overhaul of vehicles.

The plan calls for each big rig to get a $64,000 subsidy for the conversion from diesel to natural gas. With around 8 million large trucks on American highways right now, you can do the math and figure out what the price tag is. It’s one thing to convert big rigs to natural gas. Once that happens, you then have to overhaul thousands of fuel stations across the country that would need to have natural gas available. But don’t worry: the Plan gives a $100,000 tax credit for every station that converts to natural gas. I won’t even really touch on the conversion of cars to natural gas, but there are provisions in the plan that have, by the time it’s all added up, a $11,500 subsidy for every natural gas car.

What is really being discussed with the Pickens Plan is a complete overhaul of our transportation system, which will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, as National Review has pointed out, for very minimal profit; $4 billion by one estimate. And the person who just happens to benefit the most? Someone heavily invested in the natural gas business by the name of T. Boone Pickens.