Posted by
Mick O. on Wednesday, April 02, 2008 8:58:18 PM
Today on Rush Limbaugh's show, he played a sound byte of Ted Turner which infuriated me. How dare he blame us for global warming? First of all it's a hoax (just like the global cooling theory many years ago), but when he says it's caused because too many people have too much stuff, I almost exploded!
So why didn't the news reporter interviewing him ask, "then why don't you lead by example and start giving your stuff away?" Because the media lies! And for some reason, liberals never see the hypocrisy! Just like Al Gore, Turner is putting the blame on the rest of us while he lives his opulent lifestyle, and flies around in his corporate jets. If global warming IS happening and anyone is to blame, it is the likes of these two!
Yesterday I opined about the unintended consequences of rent control; how it hurts the very people it was implemented to help. Today, I wanted to write about the hypocrisy of ethanol and the law of unintended consequences, but reporter,
Cinnamon Stillwell at the San Francisco Chronicle beat me to it with a brilliant piece today.
As it turns out, producing ethanol may cause more pollution than it saves by being used as a gasoline additive. For those of you who didn't pass 1st grade math, if it costs 10 to produce something and saves 8 to use it, that's a net loss of 2. Okay? Let's move on.
Add to that the price of any food that involves corn products (meat and poultry that use corn for feed) is skyrocketing, and you can see that this is a BAD idea. Corn that was once used as food is now being used for ethanol! But here's the kicker... You and I are paying the difference in the form of government subsidies. So not only is it not cost effective to produce ethanol (means they can't make money producing and selling ethanol on its own merit), but we taxpayers must also subsidize the producers so they can make enough money to be profitable. If it's such a good idea it would be able to make it on its own... Like plasma televisions and DVD players that all started costing a lot of money, the price eventually came down and they are still making money... no government subsidies there!
I know I read somewhere that
Ted Turner owns farm land that is being subsidized by us, either by NOT planting on it or for growing corn that is being used for ethanol. Either way, you'd think we'd at least get a thank you card from the guy. What a jerk.