We wonder why California is in such deep trouble.
While our President is proposing a new and brave energy policy for the United States, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), working in the shadows, is preparing legislation that would permanently put hundreds of thousands of acres of California land off limits to solar and wind energy projects.
Not that she is against alternative energy, she just doesn't want it to mar up thousands of acres of beautiful bankrupt landscape.
I bet we see this one as an earmark in a healthcare bill (don't ask me how I know that) ;-)
In a few years Oklahoma should be able to annex California as "West Oklahoma". That would certainly improve our wine production.
Myron Ebell, an energy expert with the pro-market Competitive Enterprise Institute, called Feinstein's effort "just the first example of how hard it is going to be to realize President Obama's dream of a green-energy economy."
Feinstein disputed that she is engaged in a not-in-my-backyard campaign. "I'm a strong supporter of renewable energy and clean technology -- but it is critical that these projects are built on suitable lands," she said.
Don't worry. When the ban black cars it will all offset. No really, they are banning black cars to protect the environment.
They are not very smart. Blue pigmented cars are capable of the same IR absorbency and conversion as black.
They should also ban leather seats, because those buggers get hot, and sometimes when I sit on them, the shock from the heat causes me to expel methane.
I'm going to resist my tendency towards unreasoning populist anger until I find out whether those acreages were absolutely crucial to the federal green initiative or if, just maybe, the third largest state in the union (163,696 sq mi at last count) has enough space for both windmills and conservation.