You just can’t make this stuff up.
Here’s my favorite photo, for reasons our friends at Zombietime completely missed but I’m sure Jordan (our resident anti-misanthropist) will appreciate:
If it’s hard to see what the little blue sticker to the left says, here’s a better view:
In other words, stop killing our children for oil, but make sure we can kill them for convenience.
“Concourse of hypocrisy” indeed.
Glenn Reynolds links:
As Randy would say, “Yo Dog, check it out...” One data point does not a trend make, but it’s obviously possible to comfortably grow the economy and domestic output without increasing CO2.
Sorta like reducing taxes while growing tax revenues, I guess.
This should be a wakeup call to conservatives who contend that any whiff of man-made greenhouse gas management will destroy the most powerful economy on earth. It’s also a poke in the eye to all those Goreons out there driving their SUVs to global warming worship services to commiserate on the evils of America and pray they could be more like the EU (whose gas problem was worse in 2006, by the way).
DOE’s report is linked here. I thought about lifting some key bits from it but there’s so much good info summarized in here that you really should take 5 minutes and read the whole thing.
Don’t get too cocky - 2006 was mild weather-wise, which helped a lot. But as long as our economy keeps seeking more ways to save money on fossil fuels and make alternative energy more profitable, U.S. man-made CO2 emissions have the potential to significantly ease off. And that’s a good thing.
By the way, if you want to see a great example of economic impacts tied to CO2, check out the big down-blip in 2001 on page 3.
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Sat, 09/06/2008 09:31
http://www.netbroadcasting.tv/ sarah_palin.html A link to that worship prayer.