And maybe it was a BRAIN CRAMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of the sort that Greenies oftten suffer from..........................................
whenever they attempt to formulate policy??????????????????????
Here is an article illustrating the rotten heart of LIE-beral economic policy. With some comments of my own in brackets):
A greener, poorer, slower economy
Special to Postmedia Network. Published: January 22, 2018. Updated: January 22, 2018 4:47 PM EST
Filed Under: Toronto SUN/ Opinion/ Columnists
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By Paige MacPherson, researcher at an Alberta advocacy group, and is a contributing writer to Cdns for Affordable Energy.
Without a doubt, rising population and prosperity in the developing world will grow global demand for energy for the foreseeable future. For human progress, this is fantastic. Billions of people will be lifted out of poverty. Central to this progress is access to reliable and reasonably priced power.
According to every reliable forecasting agency, from the International Energy Agency to multinational energy conglomerates like BP, the rising demand for energy cannot be met any time soon by renewables like wind and solar. In the next several decades at least, many more hydrocarbons will be burned than are burned today.
(An obvious part of the problem with wind power- as Ontari-owe LIE-berals found out the hard way- is that those UGLY and COSTLY wind farms are most productive in spring and fall- when we need them least! And it does not help that solar and wind farms are so unreliable in Ontari-owe that we must keep natural gas fired generators fully manned and fully fired up- ready 24/7- to take over when the wind gust dies away!)
(AS noted in a TVO documentary- China is involved in building huge numbers of solar farms in semi desert lands in Pakistan- which means that power is made available to lots of people who could not afford nuclear power and who live in lands far too dry for water power- the obvious problem with solar power is that big swaths of the country GO DARK at nightfall- meaning not just stores and homes going dark- it also means NO MORE traffic lights or security lighting till dawn! Translation- renewable energy is fine if you are desperately poor and have no other options!)
(IN their usual short sighted- no long term planning way- LIE-berals think it would be grand to force us to buy their electric Toy cars- and we can conveniently recharge them each night while we sleep- using mouldy green energy- but LIE-berals have not noticed- “short sighted” IS a LIE-beral hallmark- that mouldy green production falls to very LOW LEVELS after dark!)
(Cdns will NOT be powering electric toy cars with LIE-beral mouldy green power any time soon- not unless LIE-berals also force us to sleep all day and work at night!)
For some, rising energy-fueled growth and prosperity is more of a curse than a blessing. How can we “decarbonize” our world in the face of inexorable growth in demand for oil, coal and natural gas?
As the world’s fastest growing economies expand fossil fuels usage, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is heading in the opposite direction, heaping on taxes and regulations designed to reduce consumption of carbon-based energy along with the emissions and jobs it produces.
(And too bad Our idiot Boy Justin is simply engaged in a massive cash grab with his carbon crap that is modelled on the 15 year old European version that only cleans cash from wallets and leaves the dirt in the air! BUT- and this is key- carbon taxes give LIE-berals a fine new slush fund to dip into so they can buy votes from select groups and cling to power at any price!)
(Where LIE-beral carbon taxes are concerned - ANY benefit to the environment is an unplanned and unexpected event! Chasing jobs out of Canada with high carbon taxes simply ensures that the jobs and factories are set up in other countries with MORE LAX regulations than Cdns deal with!)
(Twenty odd years ago the world got together and banned various fluro-carbons such as Freon - in order to save the ozone layer and reduce skin cancer rates- and things got better for some years but its now sliding back- various third world govts are cheating and using the banned substances because they ARE CHEAPER! Feel good nonsense such as the Paris Accords are ineffective since there is so much room for cheating! And verifying emissions is nearly impossible in some countries such as Russia, China, Iran, Nigeria and North Korea!)
(IN addition some countries such as Venezuela and Mexico are economic basket cases where nothing much- including enforcement of govt regulations- simply does not happen! We Cdns would do better to kick out our LIE-beral govt, whack and stack some noisy protestors and go build the Energy East pipeline and Kinder Morgan and maybe some other lines as well!)
(For one thing- Cdn oil and gas producers operate under more stringent regulations than either Mexico or Venezuela- which happen to produce much of the oil for eastern North America- meaning all of eastern Canada and much of eastern United States as well! So buying local means buying CLEANER as well!)
The tax-and-regulatory gap with Canada’s largest trading partner widened after Donald Trump became President of the United States. When Trump jettisoned the Paris climate agreement he was loudly rebuked. Consumer products giant Procter & Gamble was among those calling for climate action. But soon after, the multinational closed its plant in Brockville, Ontario, to relocate operations in West Virginia where coal-powered energy is much cheaper.
(OH yes- its is better to LOOK GOOD than to do the heavy lifting involved in BEING GOOD- and this is a major flaw in ALL LIE-beral climate plans!)
Canada’s CO2 emissions from P&G along with almost 500 manufacturing jobs will shift from Ontario to the U.S. – jobs from Canada are West Virginia’s unexpected reward for voting Trump.
(So the dirt is STILL going into the air- but the jobs and tax revenue are benefiting Yankees- who happen to BURN MORE COAL THAN CDNS!!!!! So what did the LIE-berals carbon taxes and mouldy green energy scams get us? Except for longer unemployment lines and bigger govt deficits?)