2011 Chevy Volt aka the Chevy Joke

I know everyone is bitching about the Arizona Law – I’m to not worried about the Supreme court will overturn the court 5-4 so while this is a serious matter everyone else is covering it. So I’m going to talk about the glorious new Chevy Volt.

Did you see this piece of crap? The car that Dopey was pushing and talking about like it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. The NEW all electric Chevy Volt – yeehah and it retails for only $41,000.00 or a little over  a $1000.00 a miles drive distances.

Chevy Volt: Are Electric Cars Too Expensive?

When General Motors Corp. said its new Chevrolet Volt electric car would cost $41,000 and up, many consumers and industry insiders winced. Some of them consider anything over $40,000 serious money for a car, and they may not think the Volt is worth the premium over other economy models.

But here is the deal and I’ll admit I thieved part of this idea from a comment on Hot Air – a good comment they just had some MPG data slightly off.

This Chevy Volt is $41,000.00 in addition to gas guzzling truck of which I’m going to get another one (perhaps a big 7.3 Diesel with a lift bucket on it – I’m not kidding) and we have a little Honda Civic Hybrid for road trips that’s gets on average 40+ MPG (yes Looney Liberals even conservative can drive Hybrids – we just don’t get smug about it.) So the Hybrid was bought when gas was cheap between Katrina and the spike for (I think) for around $16,000.00 – OK those are the numbers.

Got it… $16K car verses $41K car

Chevy Volt $41,000.00
Honda Civic Hybrid – $16,000.00

The difference – $25,000.00 and as of today gas was $2.53/gal here – so now let’s divide $25K by $2.53 that come to 9881.42 gallons of gas – so calculate that the Honda Civic Hybrid that gets 40+ MPG so on nearly 10,000 gallons of gas you could drive 395,256.91 miles (or all the way to the moon and 2/3 of the way back). Now take those 395,256.91 miles and divide that by the 20,000 a year we put on the car and it would only take 19.76 year to break even if you bought a Volt – well were the hell do I sign up to buy one.

BUT… BUT I didn’t even factor in the amount of money you have to spend to charge the car and exactly where would you charge the car while at work and just who is going to let you plug your car in to charge every day with out paying them and the very fact that electricity come from where? Fossil fuel, that’s where and did I mention that this snazzy new $41,000.00  Chevy Volt has a range of up to 40 miles?  40 MILES!! And if you read the fine print of the Volt it says …

2011 VOLT

Volt is an electric car that uses gas to create its own electricity. Plug it in, let it charge overnight, and it’s ready to run on a pure electric charge for up to 40 miles(3) — gas and emissions free. After that, Volt keeps going, even if you can’t plug it in. Volt uses a range-extending gas generator that produces enough energy to power it for hundreds of miles on a single tank of gas.

Whoa it still uses gas in addition to it’s fossil fuels powered electricity? What the hell – how GREEN is that? And exactly what’s that little disclaimer (3) after the “40 miles” … hmmm?

3
Assumes fully charged battery. Actual range depends on driving habits, weather conditions, terrain and the operation of electrical features in the vehicle. Vehicle features and performance capabilities subject to change without notice.

So what they are saying is provide you have a perfectly flat and straight road on a sunny day and you have a full charge you can get 40 miles out of it, otherwise forget it.

So after looking at the specs, the numbers, the facts and the cost I’d say the Chevy Volt would be better called the Chevy Joke. Get’s yours today.

The folks that bbuy the Volt are the same smug selfish elitist that buy the IPad

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James Olmos: Obama “Lost It” and should take over hotels

BP Avoids Anderson Cooper; Edward James Olmos Tells Him The President “Lost It”

Depending on your frame of reference, Jaime Escalante or Admiral William Adama, (apparently Obama voters), think Obama has “lost it” due to his response to the BP oil spill. Actor Edward James Olmos told Anderson Cooper as much last night.

But while actors are talking to Cooper, BP is mostly avoiding the CNN anchor.

As Cooper put it, Olmos was out on the water surveying the spill himself when he asked him for a brief interview. Cooper expressed his confusion as to why the U.S. Government would say “it doesn’t really matter how big the spill is, it doesn’t really matter how much oil is leaking out,” in the days when it seemed the spill was far smaller than it turned out to be. Olmos paused, promised to “only say this once,” and continued:

Olmos said…

I voted for him, our President, and I’m proud of it. And I think he’s a great man. He has a great family. But somewhere along the line, he’s lost it. They should be here right now. He should move the White House here. They should take over hotels and bring income and people and bring forces here. And start the slow process of building a community, a family, that’s going to clean this up.

Allow me to tell Olmos a few things…

1. James you’re an actor – stick with that, OK! (Honestly I don’t think you are a very good one.)
2. Why are you out in the Gulf – you’re just getting in the way and there is nothing you can do, nothing.
3. Take over the Hotels? Do what? Do explain that remark – I think I know what you mean, but I could spin it like another government takeover.
4. What is the military forces going to do? Pick up tarballs? How about we put them on the border and pick up illegals – I think that is a better use.
5. Start the process of building a community, a family to clean up? Whatever James – what have you done, besides run your mouth?
6. You “proudly” voted for Obama ergo you are an unremorseful idiot.

Understand this James, Obama didn’t lose it – he never had it! You and so many other where taken by his ability to read a teleprompter and appear competent but when the rubber hit the road he doesn’t know what to do. He is a frat boy trying to play in the grown ups world and he is painfully out of his league – problem is we reap the pain and will for another 2 1/2 years.

Additionally you may know Edward James Olmos stars in Battlestar Galactica as Admiral William Adama… I guess someone needs to remind James he’s not a real Admiral he just plays one on TV – it’s either that or he has spent to much time in the oxygen thin imaginary space to realize his opinion on the Gulf oil spill means next to nothing. Either way he needs to get out of the way, haul his ass back to Hollywierd and plug his own hole – I get so sick of these actors and entertains that have to sick their damn nose into politics and social issues – like we care what they think.

One a side note -

I can’t even listen to U2 anymore – Bono and his political activism has ruined them for me, Paul McCartney is ruining The Beatles and Olmos is ruining Battlestar Galactica – do these acting/musical morons not realize that not everyone that watches or listens to them agree with them on politics? Why do these celebrities think that just because they are a celebrities their opinion matters more? I mean let’s be honest here – just because someone is an actor/actress/musician it doesn’t give them special insight, special knowledge or some greater understanding of the world around them and in fact most of the time the bubble they live in prevents them from understanding the real world – honestly does anyone believe Bono is anything more than a multi-millionaire, arrogant, bleeding heart liberal that believe more in his own importance than anyone else does? Are you going to do anything because some actor/actress/musician stands behind or for it – I can’t speak for you but I can say their opinion matters for more to them than it does me. Really, I’d like nothing more than to set Bono or one of these other over inflated egos down and ask them “Why do you think anyone other than you cares about what you have to say? Do you think you represent the little people? Do you really believe the public bases their actions on your opinion? Are you that arrogant or are you just that stupid?”

Shut up and sing, shut up and act. shut up and paint do what ever you do – just please STFU!

Here is a tip for Olmos, Bozo/Bono and Paul – I’m a small business owner, I do not voice my political opinion with customers unless I know they are receptive – because the customer pays the bills and if I run off all my liberal customers that’s money I don’t make and liberal money is the same color as conservative money and at work the only presidents that matter to me are the dead ones… Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Jackson, Grant – you know money. And these liberal actor/actresses/musicians will never see another dime of my money.

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James Cameron: Director, Writer… Deep Sea Oil Leak Expert?

‘Titanic’ director Cameron joins effort to plug Gulf spill

Filmmaker James Cameron and another Canadian who built submersibles for the director’s 1989 thriller “The Abyss” joined talks on Tuesday in Washington on innovative ways of capping the Gulf oil spill.

Let’s see, Hollywood elitist James Camron who has never work in oil field, oil rigs and likely never changed the oil in his car is by the virtue he made a movie with a aqua-monster in “The Abyss” some 20 years ago is now qualified to be a mile deep ocean oil leak expert? What is he going to do us a green screen? Hell, why don’t they just get a Ouija board and summon the spirit of Jacques Cousteau it would be as about as useful as asking a movie director what to do.

Shoot give me a call I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express once I’m as qualified if not more so as James Cameron at fixing leaks – I’ve actually fixed leaks under sinks, but what do I know I’ve never made a movie about freaky blue aliens. But if you ask me I would say blast the hole with explosive deep in the shaft and collapse it with the ocean floor but I might want to run that idea past Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio who starred in “The Abyss” first. She’d know what to do.

Are these people gasping at straws or what? BP can’t stop it, the US Government can’t stop it and we’ve reduced to asking Hollyweird director what to do? My God isn’t they someone on the planet more qualified? Where is Red Adair when you need him?

(NOTE for the record BP did call the late Red Adair’s successor who came up with the top kill idea which as you know didn’t work.)

This just in Barack Obama to convene meeting with Captain Nemo, Spongebob Squarepants, Flipper and Charlie the Tuna to resolve oil leak – it would make more sense than what they are doing now.

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Oil Spill Day 43 and counting – No end in sight while Obama vacations again

This is one of the many problem you run into when you have too much and too big of a government – so bloated it can’t move, red tape, black tape, blue tape you name it and there is tape, forms, filing and BS to cut through. The oil is hitting the beach of Louisiana, the marshes and wetlands, the breeding ground for 1000′s species of wildlife and Gov Jindel wants to build a barrier island to block the oil from hitting these fragile ecosystems, but the Federal Government and the Army Corp of Engineers want to do an environmental impact study of the barrier island before they build them and in the meantime 1000′s of gallons of oil continue to hit the area and will continue to do so until the damn hole is plugged. – I’m sorry but when your house in on fire do you try and find out what caused the fire or what might be damaged by the fire or what might be damaged by putting out the fire – no, you every try to but the fire out first then figure out the who, where, what and why’s? Do you do a fire prevention assessment while the flames rage? My God these people in Washington are beyond mentally impaired. Here is an idea how about doing an environmental impact study on millions of gallons of raw crude hitting the most productive fishing and breeding grounds in the GulfOcean” of Mexico, how about build the damn islands – send BP the bill and protect the wetlands? Just an idea… I live in the swampy wetlands of Western KY and I know and understand just how important they are to wildlife, migration and breeding grounds, but it doesn’t mean you turn into an environmental wacko and waste time studying a lesser threat in the face of a greater one – common sense people, common sense – get it.

Jindal Furious: Obama Still Hasn’t Approved Sand Barriers for Oil Spill

The governor [Jindel] said he has been forced to protect Louisiana without the approval of the Army Corps of Engineers, which is weighing the ecological impact of the construction of more sand booms.

“We are not waiting for them. We are going to build it,” Jindal said.

Good for you Bobby Jindel continue to show that leadership it’s about damn time somebody in government showed some – while Washington looks for ways to pat itself on the back, point fingers and go to parties – Jindel is taking the lead, showing leadership and doing the job that needs to be done and to hell with studies, permits and red tape and we’ll see who performs better in a real CRISIS and not some ginned up manufactured crisis that Obama is always running his pie hole about – so the answer to his kid’s question…

DID YOU PLUG THE [pie] HOLE YET, DADDY?

No but he needs too, because if I hear the term “from Day 1” – one more damn time I’m going to bitch slap somebody upside the head. Maybe Obama needs another vacation to rest up – poor guys only had 2 vacation since the oil spill began, how many have you had? For me Zero – in fact it’s been about a year since I had one and then I  went to the snowy white beaches of Gulf coast. Wonder how they look now?

So what about President Vacation…

Presidents are never really off the clock, even when they go on vacation. But President Obama’s decision to skip the traditional Memorial Day ceremony in Arlington while on his second vacation since the BP oil spill began has some wondering what the schedule says about his priorities.

And many of us don’t have to wonder, we know his priorities are screwed up. He thinks he is royalty and above criticism – to bad for him, he’s not.

Oh and one last thought – if this leak had occurred in ANWR, Alaska on dry land and not a mile under water it would have been plugged in a matter of hours, but the enviro-wackos keep lobbying to push drilling further and further off-shore and this is what you get – it’s BP’s fault make no mistakes about it, but the enviro wacko are just as guilty. So they and Obama can take their socialist mop and get cleaning as they share in the blame.

Then again I think the Obama administration has some answering to do regarding over site and while the Democrat try to blame Bush this happened well into Obama’s watch, therefore he owns it … oh by the way Obama spent 3 hours at the Gulf talking to the locals and he regularly spends 5 hours playing golf. Just so you know how seriously he takes it – imagine if it had been Bush.

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Atom Mathmatics

Ok let’s do some math because math is fun…

Obama promotes more nuclear power in the SOTU

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Obama closes Yucca Mountain in 2010 budget (American’s only nuclear waste storage facility)

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Ok maybe math isn’t fun after all. You figure it out, all I’ve got is…

(BS)BS=BS²

And that’s a lot of BS

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The Death of the American car.

gmObama to endanger your family in tiny cars that is going to cost you a bare minimum of $1300.00 more for less car. With his new dictation today from the dictator Obama he has issued enforcement of a new cafe standard to further kill off the US auto industry of regulating a 35.5 minimum miles per gallon. So not only is Obama going to force the auto industry to make tiny dangerous cars they’re going to cost more.

Not only is the Government going force you to drive some tiny death trap they also announced today that they are going to take over GM AND… AND they are going to forgive $15,400,000,000.00 ($15.4 BILLION) in loans… uh that’s your money and did anyone ask you if it was ok? I know I never got a call… but I can name a few congressman that are. No one ever forgive any of my loans, what about you?

GM bankruptcy plan eyes quick sale to gov’t

So anyway in addition to the government giving GM $15,400,000,000.00 of our money and extending credit to them they expect them to churn out tiny high mileage death trap that they say will only cost you $1300.00 more, $13,000 more than what? They never say more than what, what’s the baseline? But it’s strange I always thought people bought small cars because they were cheaper then big cars. But no worry Obama claims they your will save $2800.00 in fuel cost which is bullshit. soon as gas demands go down so does the tax revenue from the sell of gas, so the government will raise the gas tax to make up the tax revenue shortfall and that so called savings will be spent in higher gas taxes. How do I know this… they did it here in Kentucky. The tax was scheduled to drop as the wholesale price and they passed a law to freeze the tax and keep the it higher.

Anyway the brain trust says…

It would take just three years to pay off the investment and would, over the life of a vehicle, save about $2,800 through better gas mileage, the president said.

Prove it Obama! Don’t give me rhetoric, actually prove it show me why they will cost more and how I will save money. Why can’t the media ask these questions? Oh yeah they’re in the gas tank for him.

Now don’t forget these small cars are also another push to reduce CO2 and curb the mythical Global warming and to get another foot in the Cap and Trade door which is going to cost you a hell of a lot more than $1300.00.

However, someone explain to me how they are going to know what the cost of fuel is going to be in 2016? Really, I want to know just how they think they can calculate a savings based on so many unknown variables. They don’t know how much your drive, they don’t know how much is your fuel cost, they don’t know how much more the insurance is going to be, because it’s always higher on smaller death trap cars. (Note since the small car cafe standards went into effect in 1978 a additional 46,000 people have be killed in auto wrecks they would have survived in larger cars. That 46,000 was in 1999 when the study was completed so one can assume mathematically that that number today is over 67,900 which is 2190 per year.)

An extensive 1999 USA Today analysis of crash data found that since CAFE went into effect in 1978, 46,000 people died in crashes they otherwise would have survived, had they been in bigger, heavier vehicles. This, according to a 1999 USA Today analysis of crash data since 1975, roughly figures to be 7,700 deaths for every mile per gallon gained in fuel economy standards.

James R. Healey, “Death by the Gallon,” USA Today, July 2, 1999

So Obama wants to kill more Americans is what I can concluded from that, but that’s not all that the all seeing, all know Great Obama knows, he knows more….

Obama touts plan for cleaner, more efficient cars

Obama said the proposal would save 1.8 billion barrels of oil over the lifetime of the vehicles sold in the next five years, akin to removing 177 million cars from the roads over the next 6 1/2 years.

How do you know this oh wise one? How do you know how many little tiny death traps are going to be sold? How do you know how long the life time of the little tiny death trap is? See this is what Obama does he goes out there and listening to what the TOTUS tells him to say and makes all these grand claims, big statement and backs none of it up with facts or data. So to me it’s all empty bullshit that means nothing, but sadly most Americans fall for this crap because they do not do any critical thinking on they’re own. They stand there with one finger up their nose and only hear that THE ONE said they’d save money… but they never ask how.

Here’s my plan… drive what ever damn car you want and can afford too and if your car gets 1 MPG and you can afford to fill it up every few blocks that’s your damn business and if you don’t want to import foreign oil and let’s drill our damn own oil. Quit giving me we this bullshit about we’re 5% of the worlds population and us 25% of the worlds energy, I’m so sick of hearing that! What pinhead doesn’t say is that we also feed most of the world, we also invent most everything new in the world, we lead the world in space, medicine, technology and quality of life and it’s way so many people risk their life to get here just like Obama’s illegal relatives that live here. If Obama thinks for one damn minute I’m going to feel bad about America and it’s quality of life he can turn down the heat in the White House in winter time and kiss my angry white ass.

More one this here.

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The Great Ethanol Scam

I posted this some months ago on a forum but a story out today concludes pretty much everything I concluded all those months ago.

The Great Ethanol Scam

I was out looking not seriously at E85 (85%ethanol 15% gas) 1 ton work trucks, E85 is about 60 cents a gallon cheaper than gas around here, but the truck is only $45,000.00 so after driving about 800,000 miles I’ll see a saving provided I live that long or the truck last that long. So I’m not buying a new truck. the math just doesn’t work for me.

Anywho, the Gov’munt wants us to start producing ethanol so we can get off the crack oil. Well let us take a look at the benefits of these miracle fuels. I thought I’d educate myself to the savings and benefits of ethanol over gasoline. As I do make a effort to be sensibly green, I’m just not going to cut my nose off to spite my face and go crazy wacko overboard. So you know I’m all for reducing fossil fuel use and finding cleaner, renewable energy that WORKS, REALLY WORKS and is cost effective, but you have these folks in Washington on both side aisle touting the benefits of ethanol, most of these folks are in corn growing states. I wonder why? Have they ever researched the facts? I think not.

Ethanol doesn’t work mathematically in money and numbers.

Ethanol is made primarily from corn, corn is used to feed cow, chickens, hogs, people and used in 1000′s of food and other products. The less corn used to make foods and feed animals the higher to cost at the grocer and many other corn based products will be. That’s a no brainer, so from corn flakes to golf tees that are made from corn will go up in cost. The government would like 25% of all cars on the road to run on ethanol according to a resent report, ok that’s great BUT that would require dedicating 270,000,000 acres or 13% of the US’s land mass to corn production just to make ethanol alone. Where are we going to grow food to eat? The remaining 87% is not all tillable remember part of that is mountains and icy tundra of Alaska. Basically most of the continental United States from be a corn field.

But that’s not the worst of it, oh no so lets get technical…

Ethanol can produce 76,000 BTUs per gallon, but requires 98,000 BTUs per gallon to produce that’s a net loss of energy amounting to 22,000 BTU’s. Hardly a path to energy independence wouldn’t you say? It also requires over 1700 gallons of water to produce one gallon of ethanol and this is from the government that forced us to switch to low flow toilets that clog up to save 1.4 gallons of water.
For the record gasoline contains 116,000 BTUs per gallon and requires 22,000 BTUs to produce, a net gain.
Net gains are good, net losses are bad in my world.

Containing less BTU’s also means it is less fuel efficient and you will need more ethanol to travel the same distance on a gallon of gas. 35% more to be exact, so if I can drive a work truck that gets 10 miles to the gallon a 100 miles on 10 gallons of gas, I’d need 13.5 gallons of ethanol. These negates any savings at the per gallon cost.

What about the other stuff you can make it from? Well corn ethanol, switchgrass ethanol, and wood ethanol consume 29%, 45%, and 57% respectively more BTUs of fossil-fuel energy in their production, than they produce when they’re burned as fuel.

In short a bushel of corn sales for currently $7.62 it can produce 2.5 gallons of ethanol (USDA) now that’s $3.04 a gallon just for the raw product prior to converting it to ethanol and getting it to the station, so why does ethanol sell for less than gas? Well, tax dollars at work that’s how, the taxpayer subsidizes ethanol at the rate of 51 cents a gallon according to the USDA, however, Corn ethanol subsidies totaled $7.0 billion in 2006 for 4.9 billion gallons of ethanol. That’s $1.45 per gallon of ethanol … not a bargain and a tad more than 52 cents the government claims.

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Happy Earth Day

From the forward of Jurassic Park

You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There’s been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away — all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval. Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us. If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the soil, frozen in Arctic ice. Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again. The evolutionary process would begin again. It might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety. Of course, it would be very different from what it is now, but the earth would survive our folly, only we would not. If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears the earth, so what? Ultraviolet radiation is good for life. It’s powerful energy. It promotes mutation, change. Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation. Many others will die out. Do you think this is the first time that’s happened? Think about oxygen. Necessary for life now, but oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive glass, like fluorine. When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on earth. Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas. Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life. Nevertheless, life on earth took care of itself. In the thinking of the human being a hundred years is a long time. A hundred years ago we didn’t have cars, airplanes, computers or vaccines. It was a whole different world, but to the earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can’t imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven’t got the humility to try. We’ve been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we’re gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

And there you have it loony left liberal are vain.

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Stop Breathing – EPA says: carbon dioxide (CO2) a pollutant.

The Obama administrations EPA today said that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a pollutant and poses a serious health risk to humans and the environment so stop breathing you’re killing yourself.

The US took a major step towards the introduction of wide-reaching climate change regulations on Friday, after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) formally declared that carbon dioxide emissions present a danger to public health.

The landmark ruling gives the Obama administration the power to impose carbon regulations on carbon-intensive industries, even if its hopes for a nationwide emissions cap-and-trade are thwarted in Congress.

This should make you soil your pants as your energy cost are going to go through the roof, lets do something government can’t do and have a look at the facts…

What you need to know about carbon dioxide…

  • Carbon dioxide is used in beverage carbonation, so plan on paying more for those.
  • Industrial and municipal wastewater must be neutralized before being discharged to the environment. Carbon dioxide replaces harsher acids for the alkaline neutralization process, so plan on paying more for sewer and water.
  • Carbon dioxide is utilized as a shielding gas during welding, so plan on paying more for anything welded, like cars, frames, buildings, etc etc.
  • Carbon dioxide is being used for several different applications within paper mills, so paper is going to go up too.
  • Carbon dioxide is produced by yeast during the fermentation process, so anything fermented like beer, bread, cheese, bourbon, wine and the like will go up as well.
  • Carbon dioxide is the primary gas you exhale, so you need to stop breathing.
  • Per Pete’s Place – There is around 186 billion tons of CO2 that enter earth’s atmosphere each year from all sources, only 6 billion tons are from human activity. Approximately 90 billion tons come from biologic activity in earth’s oceans and another 90 billion tons from such sources as volcanoes and decaying land plants.

    At 368 parts per million carbon dioxide CO2 is a minor constituent of earth’s atmosphere– less than 4/100ths of 1% of all gases present. Compared to former geologic times, earth’s current atmosphere is CO2- impoverished.

    Carbon dioxide (CO2) is odorless, colorless, and tasteless. Plants absorb CO2 and emit oxygen as a waste product. Humans and animals breathe oxygen and emit CO2 as a waste product. Carbon dioxide is a nutrient, not a pollutant, and all life– plants and animals alike– benefit from more of it. All life on earth is carbon-based and CO2 is an essential ingredient. When plant-growers want to stimulate plant growth, they introduce more carbon dioxide.

    Anytime I want lush growth in my aquariums of the aquatic plants, I inject CO2 into the water and they thrive!

    CO2 that goes into the atmosphere does not stay there but is continually recycled by terrestrial plant life and earth’s oceans– the great retirement home for most terrestrial carbon dioxide.

    Declaring carbon dioxide a pollutant is the first step to killing the coal and gas industry and passing cap and trade tax. According to Phil Kerpen, Policy Director, Americans for Prosperity

    The so-called cap-and-trade energy tax would, according to the president himself, force energy prices to go way up. In an unguarded moment, speaking to The San Francisco Chronicle last year, Obama said: “Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket… they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.”

    The hardest hit will be those least able to pay: lower income families, who spend a disproportionate share of their income on energy.

    The economic impact of imposing these huge new costs on energy consumers would be devastating. Even using the Obama administration’s own numbers, it would amount to a tax hike of $645.7 billion over the first 8 years, over $80 billion per year.

    Not only would this cost be passed along to the end consumer for their personal use, the increased cost would also be passed on to the taxpayer through high energy cost for local, state and federal governments. Think about this…

    Cap-and-Trade = The Biggest Tax Increase In U.S. History

    An analysis commissioned by the American Council on Capital Formation and the National Association of Manufacturers projected the economic impact of last year’s bill by 2030: 3 to 4 million fewer jobs, $4,022 to $6,752 in lower annual disposable income per household, an annual hit to GDP of between $631 billion and $669 billion, and much higher energy prices — 60 percent to 144 percent higher for gasoline and 77 percent to 129 percent higher for electricity.

    Can you afford to pay 60 percent to 144 percent higher for gasoline and 77 percent to 129 percent higher for electricity? I know I can’t. Remember is it more of this global warming alarmist BS, and what Washington tends to forget that if they’re going to buy into this garbage that it’s global warming not America warming.

    Call your congressman and do it today.

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    Department of Energy

    jcarterHere is a thought, on October 1, 1977 the Department of Energy went active it was on August 4, 1977 that Jimmy Carter signed the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Organization Act (Public Law 95-91) to solve all of our energy whoas due to the energy crisis of the the 70′s … 1977 that was nearly 32 ago. 32 year and we aren’t one step closer to being energy independent than we were in 1977. Yet we spend over $25,000,000,000.00 a year on the DOE that employs 16,000 Federal employees and over 100,000 contracted employees and still we are not one inch closer to independence.

    What’s the point? The point is if you want something ran and done right, don’t hire the government to do it. Let me give you an example, there is a business here locally that is a agent of the DOE and they need a “clean up” do to the nature of there production and so far nearly $120 million of your tax dollars has been allocated for this clean up the mess, any one what to take bets as to the huge amounts of cost overruns this will see? $250 million, maybe … a half a billion possibly but you can bet your bottom dollar it will not be under budget, nothing is and government never is. Now I’m not slamming to folks that work at the DOE, I am slamming the governments arrogance that they think for a minute they can solve a problem or run any business, any business.

    So if you think that the government can run the banks, run the auto industry, and health care … look around, we’re not energy independent, social security is broke, the post office is broke and schools are failing our children and you libs still think the government can do a better job than the private sector. Please give me a break. Take a big the pill of reality, if government is involved it will be bloated, expensive and fail at every turn and yet there are those that think government can do a good job… it just makes my head hurt.

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