tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353680062320179256.post5835359481758088555..comments2023-12-29T17:12:14.653-08:00Comments on Shaving Leviathan: Seeds For Oil, A FableJeffrey Perrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11841019772535869442noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353680062320179256.post-22052724097108590492008-06-25T12:10:00.000-07:002008-06-25T12:10:00.000-07:00That quote, unfortunately, does not surprise me in...That quote, unfortunately, does not surprise me in the least. I indicated that attitude when I said:<BR/><BR/>"Also, it will be good for you, since it will encourage you to eat less, you glutton."<BR/><BR/>Ala Taggart, many don't want to succeed, they want everyone else brought down to the lowest level. (The creature who runs grist is the very prototype of that sort.) That is, among other things, the egalitarian aspect of their vicious philosophy.<BR/><BR/>There is much that is decidedly medieval (in the figurative and literal senses) about their views.Jeffrey Perrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11841019772535869442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353680062320179256.post-50305089232094434312008-06-24T19:21:00.000-07:002008-06-24T19:21:00.000-07:00I sometimes wonder if they are playing dumb. I sus...I sometimes wonder if they are playing dumb. I suspect they really do know what they are doing.<BR/><BR/>I was surprised to learn the Greens aren’t complaining that we are running out of oil; they're upset that there’s too much of it! <A HREF="http://www.grist.org/advice/books/2001/12/12/to" REL="nofollow"/>’s a card-carrying member of the <I>Church of Global Warming</I> confessing their opposition to the use of fossil fuels:<BR/><BR/>“We must give [Bjorn] Lomborg his due, because he is correct; but we should also give him our sympathy, because he's expending a great deal of energy to counter an argument that hardly anyone is making anymore -- not the Sierra Club, not the Alliance to Save Energy ... not even the Club of Rome. We all recognize that there are enormous reserves of crude oil, coal, natural gas, shale oil, and uranium, and that the world will continue to find them for decades or centuries to come. It's not the finite nature of fossil fuels that's harming the global climate; it's their abundance. It's not the scarcity of oil that endangers pristine and public lands; it's the profusion.”<BR/><BR/>This fellow is upset because of the great supply of cheap oil. They want oil to be expensive. They want the supply constricted and harder to extract. I’ve come across several references that insinuate that the higher gasoline prices are “what the doctor ordered” to reduce consumption. But they can’t show their cards without alienating the voters who aren’t ready for self-imposed poverty.<BR/><BR/>Have you seen anything like this?Jason Pappashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18233796281520274898noreply@blogger.com