Rant on Liberal Energy Conservation BS.

Ok, so I am sick of smarmy liberals who point their fingers at everyone else and declare that we can actually conserve our way out of the energy mess that THEY caused.

The liberals have a very basic, and simply brilliant strategy:

1. Dumb down education.
2. Screw up the country.
3. Blame Republicans.
4. Goebbels lie, Goebbels lie, Goebbels lie.
5. Manipulate the media.
6. Ignorant boobs vote them into power for their "solutions" that never pan out, like Nancy "Stretch" Pelosi's solution to gas prices that took them from $1.60 / gal to $4.00 / gal in just under a year and a half.

On that note, one uneducated liberal media boob writing for the Tulsa World here had the following to say:

"And here's what I don't get about conservatives: Despite their name,
they typically haven't been willing to really conserve, in terms of
higher fuel efficiency standards for automobiles and technologies that can limit consumption at home. Anyone who talks about lowering
thermostats and wearing sweaters in the winter, as Jimmy Carter once did, is derided as a fatalist and a weakling."

Here is my response to this very ignorant statement:

Not a fatalist or weakling, just a moron. Conserving is not a viable
option. There are areas to conserve, but it's not the individual who
needs to do so. I have seen window air conditioners marketed at Sam's Club in which several display models were sitting on a shelf running full blast. In physics, this is known as a futile system, because at best, the heat output will cancel out the cold output. In the real world application, the heat output exceeds the cold output, so an air conditioner sitting on a shelf like this is actually warming the room in the middle of the summer, which means that the building's air conditioners have to work harder. What about all of those open freezers and coolers at Sam's, Wal Mart, and other grocery stores? All of his ends up in gigaWatts of wasted energy. I don't see any outcry over this, just people whining about what car someone else owns. Liberals, who normally love to impugn "big evil corporations" won't touch this. The reason? Liberals want to control the lives of individuals. They only whine about corporations when they want to tax individuals through the myth of corporate taxes.

And here is a little more on the subject:

In the 1970s, the Democrats controlled the presidency and the congress from the Ford administration on. I know Ford called himself a Republican, but it was in name only. Together, Carter and the Democratic congress created an energy crisis AND an economic crisis. The economic crisis was so unprecedented, it had not only never happened before in history (think about that, nearly 6000 years of human civilization and this never happened until the Carter administration), it was a complete surprise to economists that it was even possible! This economic crisis was called stagflation. That is because normally inflation occurs during a rapidly growing economy, but instead, we had a horrible recession and yet inflation was out of control. Before that time, inflation was only known to occur during a rapidly growing economy, but now we have to say "normally."

The only thing that got us out of the economic hardship the Democrats caused was drastic spending cuts and tax cuts. The only thing that got us out of the energy crisis was not Carter's condescending recommendations to turn our heaters down and suffer, but increased supply.

Do we really want the Dumbocrats' tried and failed methods now? Failure to learn from history dooms one to repeat it.