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I was reading a post<\/a> on the ZMan\u2019s site about electric cars.\u00a0 His thesis is that electric cars are a policy in search of a reason.\u00a0 And of course, he\u2019s correct.\u00a0 Electric cars are inferior in all aspects including energy efficiency and even \u201ccarbon footprint.\u201d\u00a0 After all, the power that charges the battery is still being generated by burning fossil fuels.\u00a0 And since transmitting electricity wastes between thirty and forty percent of the energy as heat then just burning gasoline in an internal combustion engine (ICE) burns much less fuel.\u00a0 But what electric cars effectively do is give direct control over transportation to the government.\u00a0 Now instead of allowing car companies and fuel companies to sell their products directly to consumers, the government can regulate where and how you access the energy needed to run your vehicle.\u00a0 And they can even tell when you recharge your car and eventually, they\u2019ll be able to tell you when you can\u2019t.\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty obvious where all this is going.\u00a0 The freedom we have had to be able to get up and go wherever we want whenever we want is about to go away.\u00a0 The powers that be have a plan for the future and it doesn\u2019t include that particular freedom, at least not for most of us.<\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t think we should assume that is the only change that is in the works.\u00a0 The global warming nonsense is the justification for a whole host of changes that are coming down the pike.\u00a0 As with all things bad and dysfunctional the place to look for what will be rolled out is California.\u00a0 Rolling brown outs, rolling black outs, water restrictions and the scheduled elimination of the internal combustion engine is already in place there.\u00a0 Probably coming down the road will be the elimination of fossil fuels for home heating, the replacement of flush toilets with chemical systems and restrictions on the use of refrigeration and air conditioning.\u00a0 After that, restrictions on the kind of produce farmers are allowed to grow will be decreed based on the amount of water and fertilizer required.<\/p>\n

All of this sounds pretty bleak.\u00a0 And it is.\u00a0 We have lived in a time of such prosperity and freedom that these types of restrictions sound awful.\u00a0 But they are based on a logic that can be guessed at.\u00a0 Up until the twentieth century Malthusianism held that eventually population growth would outstrip the food supply and a crisis would lead to a population die off.\u00a0 In addition, most people believe that the supply of fossil fuels is finite and possibly near its end.\u00a0 The people who run our country are unhappy with the fracking and other enhanced petroleum recovery techniques currently going on.\u00a0 They would prefer that the Middle Eastern and Russian resources were utilized instead.\u00a0 And now that birth control has proven capable of reducing the birth rate below replacement levels in much of the developed world, I think they\u2019ve formulated a plan on how to reshape society.\u00a0 In a nutshell they are telling our children to drop dead.\u00a0 And the strange thing is a lot of them are agreeing to the idea.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve mentioned a discussion I had with a co-worker a few years back where he almost bragged to me that he had decided to forego having a family to help save the planet.\u00a0 As an extenuating circumstance, I will admit that based on appearance and personality, I didn\u2019t think his decision was the only factor that might prevent him from convincing a woman to bear his children.\u00a0 But the fact that he had allowed this Gaia argument to have any weight at all in his personal reproductive decision-making process was thought provoking on my part.<\/p>\n

What all this tells me is that we are no longer convenient as herd animals for our lords and masters.\u00a0 They don\u2019t need as many of us and they don\u2019t want to pay as much for our upkeep as they used to tolerate.\u00a0 What we got used to as first-world conditions are no longer seen as acceptable.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to have to live a little lower.<\/p>\n

Of course, the alternative that we used to expect is for engineers and scientists to discover and commercialize processes that allow for Americans to improve their lifestyle not degrade it.\u00a0 Energy production and personal transportation are things that have made this country wealthy and free in ways that no other country in history ever was.\u00a0 Looking for ways to fuel our cars and heat and cool our homes are not insurmountable technical problems.\u00a0 There are any number of existing resources that can be adapted to the present needs and even improve on the performance and efficiency of our present arrangements.\u00a0 Nuclear power, will be the engine that will make it possible to produce affordable fuel after petroleum is exhausted.\u00a0 It is probable that an important part of that fuel requirement will be the use of hydrogen combustion to heat our homes.\u00a0 This will require the perfection of extremely fail-safe methods of storing and burning hydrogen.\u00a0 But when that is achieved, we will have a fuel that produces only water as its exhaust material.\u00a0 As far as the use of hydrogen as a fuel for cars, that is a trickier problem.\u00a0 It may not be feasible to make a collision between hydrogen fueled cars safe.\u00a0 It may be necessary for synthetic hydrocarbons to be produced at industrial scale in order to allow our cars to be fueled safely but with enough energy the existing art in chemical engineering is well able to achieve this result.<\/p>\n

Another problem that cheap energy will solve is the shortage of potable water.\u00a0 Currently reverse osmosis has been perfected such that sea water can be converted into fresh water.\u00a0 But the high-pressure pumping costs used in this process are considerable.\u00a0 What is needed is the output of several very large nuclear power plants located in Southern California to produce enough water for the household requirements of California.\u00a0 This would then free up the water of the Colorado River to be used by the remaining southwestern states.<\/p>\n

But what all this requires first is for us to escape from our elite masters.\u00a0 They do not add anything to the equation and the sooner we stop living according to their dictates the sooner we\u2019ll begin making a better world.\u00a0 We\u2019re not their serfs and we don\u2019t have to disappear just to suit their tastes.\u00a0 Maybe they need to disappear.\u00a0 If they\u2019re not careful they just might.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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