Virginian-Pilot wants us living in caves
By Brian Kirwin | Thursday, June 30th, 2011 | PoliticsSeems like it sometimes.
Like most environmentalist whackos, the Virginian-Pilot whines about things like progress, freedom and modern living.
Read this latest grunt from the neanderthal-yearners whining that Americans actually like television, DVRs, and electronics while using their newspaper for absorbing the natural results of pet ownership.
According to a story by The New York Times, based on a report from the National Resources Defense Council, the high-definition digital video recorders and cable set-top boxes that are so much a part of our modern media lives are also gargantuan energy hogs.
First of all, who is this “National Resources Defense Council?” It’s slogan is “The Earth’s Best Defense.”
Who is going to be FREEDOM’S best defense?
I looked at their website (which I couldn’t look out without electricity, hypocrites) and oh, it’s just a group of global warming nutcakes who want to protect little furry animals while stopping oil production and supporting “cap and trade” and telling people to stop driving so much and stop using energy.
Or by, as the Pilot wrote, “removing the box entirely and opening a book.”
See, that’s the trouble with these liberal ninnies. They appoint themselves the position of telling us how we should live and what we should do.
I don’t know what country they think they’re in.
Of course, if the Supreme Court gives government the right to force us to buy health insurance, next up would be forcing us to buy a certain television, or a car, or a phone.
Or shut them all down because of our “carbon footprint” and buy the newspaper instead.
I’m tired of these effete snobs telling free people what they should and shouldn’t do.
They keep this up, I’m going to stick my carbon footprint up their tree-hugging butts.
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The right wants to jeer him. The left wants to censor him. Moderates usually want both. Brian Kirwin is a political consultant and public relations strategist in Virginia Beach with a lightning-rod flair. Brian also serves on the VB Arts & Humanities Commission and frequently appears on Hampton Roads theatrical stages, if only to prove that all actors aren’t liberals. Kirwin’s columns stir up debate and hit the political scene with no punches pulled.
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16 Responses to "Virginian-Pilot wants us living in caves"
I’m sure the editorial writers used a manual typewriter to write their copy and had the windows to their office open for natural circulation too.
Oh, I like the Pilot. They usually print my crank letters to the editor.
They can have amy set-top cable box when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
It’s hard to write an article that makes sense by candlelight.
Camels in Australia Would Be Slaughtered To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/09/australia-camels-slaughter-carbon-credits_n_873768.html
When you compare articles, the Virginian-Pilot seems like the voice of sanity.
Our outhouses will be well stocked with VP newsprint for casual reading and for…
FREEDOM’s best defense? Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Ruger.
Here’s the thing. There is an issue of “vampire power” that a lot of people are still unaware of, where many items you have turned off but left plugged in continue to draw power. Essentially these devices are leaking electricity. Set-top boxes are among the worst with this, but if you leave your phone charger in the socket, even if the phone is not hooked on, and it is warm, it is using electricity. If your sink was leaking and running up the water bill, you would fix it. You may want to address this power leak as well.
The real value in clamping down on vampire power is that you will actually save a noticeable amount of money in the money power bill. Your local utility will love you since you will reduce their load needs so that they don’t have to fight a pack of enviro wackos to build another power plant.
That all being said, this is precisely why we CANNOT turn our back on coal and fossil fuels while the enviros search for their magic energy pipedream. Energy consumption is going up steadily. We all have more and more items that need access to a wall socket–vampire power or no. Just recharging every iPod out there sucks a ton of power. But if the enviros get their way, no one’s set-top box is going to be drawing any energy and no one’s iPod will get charged, if the wind isn’t blowing or the sun isn’t out that day since there is no way to store electricity in that quantity for periods when nature isn’t cooperating.
If you want to save yourself some money, work to reduce your vampire power situation. If you want to keep having electric lights, tell the enviros to shove it.
It never ceases to amaze me how energy issues seem to attempt to pit one group against the other, especially the public against “greedy” corporate America. Ironically, a majority of these moguls in our terrible capitalist nation are publicly held. Yes, that public with saving plans, insurance, and individual investments are in fact the greedy corporation. General Electric gets railed for not paying taxes; check your mutual fund. Virginian-Pilot use of paper, ink, printing, collation, plant operation, delivery costs make a case for owning shares of International Paper, Exxon, Ford, Dominion Power, Trans Ocean, and so forth. Oh and let us not forget Corning who make all the screens for Vampire digitized displays. But then again what can you expect from a leveraged credit addicted American society whose propensity to save and and invest is a negative figure when countries like Japan and Germany are in the double digits.
In following the “latest grunt” link Brian provided I noted this, and I will quote:
“Nationally, the set-top set-up requires the energy from almost three Surry power stations, or nine average coal plants, or about the energy Maryland uses.”
I do not know if this is true, but if it is the point is valid. Are we striving for efficiency or are we not? Is it wrong to mock those who point out how our society can become more efficient?
Yeah, I say it is.
David, I’ll mock whomever I want, especially those who want to impose their way of life on me.
Next, they’ll tell you not to eat a hamburger.
or drive a truck….
Brian,
I am open to those who will rationally explain to me how I can save fuel while I am driving my truck. My fuel costs have a big impact on the bottom line. My experience is that there are innumerable charlatans out there promising fuel savings if I only buy their product.
But I try to keep an open mind and hope I can separate the wheat from the chaff.
David, these nuts want you not to drive a truck at all.
LD, you can be retrained under a government program by taking drivers ed for electric trains as the EPA regulates trucks as we know them out of existence.
Why carbon is innocent by Peter Ravenscroft
http://climaterealists.com/attachments/ftp/Theproblemwithgreenhousegas.pdf
If I upset anyone by posting this, I apologize.
Ravenscroft is a leftist treehugging unrepentant greenie nut. Who has still managed to write one of the best articles about climate change that I have ever read. It is very long.
The very short version, we do not understand climate change. All politics is local and all climate change is also local.
Not Blue Virginia,
That was a very interesting link you provided. It took me a couple hours to get through the whole thing.
Just do not put all your eggs in one basket. Continue to keep an open mind to opinions from the other side. As Peter himself said in the link, no individual human being is smart enough to have all the answers by him/herself. (Although this dismisses the impact one individual, such as Albert Einstein, can have on the greater level of human knowledge and understanding.)
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