Jet-Pooling Would Be A Good Idea
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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I'm not going to talk about what they said because, frankly, the primary is 18 months away.
This was the earliest presidential primary debate in the history of American politics, so it's not like we're not going to hear their messages again. And again. And again.[[In-content Ad]]I want to talk about how they got to the debate.
One of the things Demos have long been known for is their stand on the environment. And, even as a conservative, this is an area where I can find agreement with them.
I believe that global warming is real. I believe that there could be dire consequences from it over time. And I believe we should be taking steps to forestall the effects of greenhouse gases on the Earth.
I also believe people who think like that should do what they can to help. You know, "every little bit helps."
Both our cars have four cylinders, for example.
Here's Hillary Clinton on the environment, taken from her clinton.senate.gov:
"I believe it is more important than ever that we reduce harmful air pollution and ensure that all New Yorkers have clean, safe air to breathe."
And this:
"The scientific consensus on climate change is increasingly clear: Unless we act to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, the planet will continue to warm over the next century, with widespread and potentially devastating effects."
Here, here, Sen. Clinton.
Now for the sake of brevity, I won't get into all the other Democrat candidates' positions on the environment. I cited Hillary's because she's the front runner. You'll just have to take my word for it when I say that they're all very similar.
So I get a chuckle when I read articles like the one Thursday by Associated Press writer Jim Kuhnhenn.
In it, he notes, "A flock of small jets took flight from Washington Thursday, each carrying a Democratic presidential candidate to South Carolina for the first debate of the political season."
Nobody jet-pooled.
All but Biden flew on chartered jets. Biden flew on a private jet.
Now, think of the fuel, money and carbon emission that could have been saved.
Reminds me of Al Gore's electric bill.
The former presidential candidate made quite a stir after his movie "An Inconvenient Truth" won an Oscar for best documentary.
At the end of the documentary, moviegoers are asked, "Are you ready to change the way you live?"
The movie's Web site suggests we should reduce our impact or carbon footprint on the environment.
We should do things like use less heating and air conditioning, buy expensive fluorescent light bulbs, use less hot water, use a clothesline instead of a clothes dryer, carpool, fly less and buy hybrid cars.
Now, I really can't envision Al Gore hanging his clothes on the line in the backyard. But honestly, one would think since he's the nation's leading spokesman on energy conservation, he would conserve energy.
One would be wrong.
Steven Milloy publishes JunkScience.com and CSRWatch.com. An advocate of free enterprise, he is an adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
He notes:
"... the Tennessee Center for Policy Research reported Gore's Nashville mansion consumed more than 20 times the electricity than the national average.
"Last August, the Gore mansion burned more than twice the electricity in a single month as the average American family uses in an entire year. Gore's heated pool house alone uses more than $500 in electricity every month.
"These latest revelations are reason enough to rent the movie just to see Gore standing before an enormous bar-graph comparison of individual carbon emissions by nationality while sanctimoniously tut-tutting about how the average American's energy use is greedily off the charts."
For that matter, most of the ones yelling the loudest about carbon emissions, greenhouse gasses and the environment are the biggest offenders.
When do politicians or Hollywood types ever limit flying, fly commercial, live in small energy efficient homes or drive tiny fuel-miser cars?
I get it.
I know these people are not like the rest of us commoners.
But maybe they should tone down the rhetoric a little bit.
Maybe they should make an honest effort at conserving and living in a more energy conscious fashion.
I can only take so much of that "do as I say not as I do" stuff.
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I'm not going to talk about what they said because, frankly, the primary is 18 months away.
This was the earliest presidential primary debate in the history of American politics, so it's not like we're not going to hear their messages again. And again. And again.[[In-content Ad]]I want to talk about how they got to the debate.
One of the things Demos have long been known for is their stand on the environment. And, even as a conservative, this is an area where I can find agreement with them.
I believe that global warming is real. I believe that there could be dire consequences from it over time. And I believe we should be taking steps to forestall the effects of greenhouse gases on the Earth.
I also believe people who think like that should do what they can to help. You know, "every little bit helps."
Both our cars have four cylinders, for example.
Here's Hillary Clinton on the environment, taken from her clinton.senate.gov:
"I believe it is more important than ever that we reduce harmful air pollution and ensure that all New Yorkers have clean, safe air to breathe."
And this:
"The scientific consensus on climate change is increasingly clear: Unless we act to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, the planet will continue to warm over the next century, with widespread and potentially devastating effects."
Here, here, Sen. Clinton.
Now for the sake of brevity, I won't get into all the other Democrat candidates' positions on the environment. I cited Hillary's because she's the front runner. You'll just have to take my word for it when I say that they're all very similar.
So I get a chuckle when I read articles like the one Thursday by Associated Press writer Jim Kuhnhenn.
In it, he notes, "A flock of small jets took flight from Washington Thursday, each carrying a Democratic presidential candidate to South Carolina for the first debate of the political season."
Nobody jet-pooled.
All but Biden flew on chartered jets. Biden flew on a private jet.
Now, think of the fuel, money and carbon emission that could have been saved.
Reminds me of Al Gore's electric bill.
The former presidential candidate made quite a stir after his movie "An Inconvenient Truth" won an Oscar for best documentary.
At the end of the documentary, moviegoers are asked, "Are you ready to change the way you live?"
The movie's Web site suggests we should reduce our impact or carbon footprint on the environment.
We should do things like use less heating and air conditioning, buy expensive fluorescent light bulbs, use less hot water, use a clothesline instead of a clothes dryer, carpool, fly less and buy hybrid cars.
Now, I really can't envision Al Gore hanging his clothes on the line in the backyard. But honestly, one would think since he's the nation's leading spokesman on energy conservation, he would conserve energy.
One would be wrong.
Steven Milloy publishes JunkScience.com and CSRWatch.com. An advocate of free enterprise, he is an adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
He notes:
"... the Tennessee Center for Policy Research reported Gore's Nashville mansion consumed more than 20 times the electricity than the national average.
"Last August, the Gore mansion burned more than twice the electricity in a single month as the average American family uses in an entire year. Gore's heated pool house alone uses more than $500 in electricity every month.
"These latest revelations are reason enough to rent the movie just to see Gore standing before an enormous bar-graph comparison of individual carbon emissions by nationality while sanctimoniously tut-tutting about how the average American's energy use is greedily off the charts."
For that matter, most of the ones yelling the loudest about carbon emissions, greenhouse gasses and the environment are the biggest offenders.
When do politicians or Hollywood types ever limit flying, fly commercial, live in small energy efficient homes or drive tiny fuel-miser cars?
I get it.
I know these people are not like the rest of us commoners.
But maybe they should tone down the rhetoric a little bit.
Maybe they should make an honest effort at conserving and living in a more energy conscious fashion.
I can only take so much of that "do as I say not as I do" stuff.
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