{"id":20850,"date":"2022-10-23T23:11:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T03:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=20850"},"modified":"2022-10-23T23:11:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T03:11:24","slug":"reinforcing-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/23\/reinforcing-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Reinforcing Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every bad thing that\u2019s happening right now is the result of Democrat stupidity, either direct or indirect.\u00a0 In fact, some of them are the result of cascading stupidity that just keeps ricocheting against other examples of former stupidity lying around.\u00a0 For instance, look at energy costs.\u00a0 The original anti-petroleum executive orders, like cancelling the pipeline and cancelling the exploration leases got the ball rolling and started gas prices soaring.\u00a0 And then for laughs Mushmouth Joe decided he wanted to fight a war against Russia the largest provider of energy to the West.\u00a0 Then just to make doubly sure there was no way to undo the damage, he blew up the Nord Stream pipelines that provide Russian natural gas to Europe.\u00a0 And when he insulted the Saudi foreign minister a year ago, he set himself up for OPEC to kick him while he is down.\u00a0 That\u2019s why they just announced a three million barrel a day reduction in oil output just to make sure prices stay high.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true.\u00a0 No one should underestimate Biden\u2019s talent for hapless destruction.\u00a0 But there could be a silver lining in this whole situation.\u00a0 The grownups won\u2019t be able to fix any of the stuff Biden has mucked up for a pretty long time.\u00a0 He\u2019s still got over two years to destroy our economy.\u00a0 That might be long enough for the people who believe in green energy to get a real good look at what life in a green economy is actually like.<\/p>\n<p>The people in Texas got a taste of it last year when the grid failed because of dependence on wind turbines that froze up.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing scarier than losing power in a real winter storm when you don\u2019t have your own generator and emergency fuel.\u00a0 Sitting in the dark with no heat and no water is a bad feeling.\u00a0 And if it becomes a recurring thing it will disrupt your life.\u00a0 So much so that you\u2019ll go out and install an expensive generator just to get back to a sense of normalcy.<\/p>\n<p>Now imagine if you\u2019re a greenie and you\u2019ve always felt that gasoline and oil and natural gas are the devil\u2019s own brew.\u00a0 But then imagine if it turns out that your very own gas-powered generator is the only thing saving you from misery.\u00a0 You might start to get confused about where your priorities were with respect to this whole climate thing.<\/p>\n<p>And the first time one of those cute little electric cars gets stuck in a snow storm and runs out of charge on the road and has to be recharged by a gas-powered generator that a gas-powered truck had to haul out to do the job maybe the Gaia worshipper who gets stuck might start to put the dots together and realize he could just skip a step and buy a gas-powered car.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, these are feeble hopes.\u00a0 Gaia worship is a cult that seemed to get started in fifth grade when the proselytizing starts.\u00a0 Really the only hope is that most of these people will need to freeze to death in a sudden storm that takes out the power and leaves them inside their well-insulated walls as the temperature reaches minus twenty.\u00a0 Hopefully they\u2019ll be too eco-pure to ask to stay with their climate denier neighbor with the 25-kW generator and large oil tank.\u00a0 After all you just can\u2019t virtue signal too much when you\u2019re an eco-warrior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every bad thing that\u2019s happening right now is the result of Democrat stupidity, either direct or indirect.\u00a0 In fact, some of them are the result<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,712],"tags":[3370,713,2108],"class_list":["post-20850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-fake-science","tag-energy-policy","tag-fake-science","tag-green-new-deal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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