Tide generation has about as much chance of working as does the water car. It takes about 10 minutes of inquiry into real sources to learn that the amount of energy it would take to build, maintain, and repair tide generators exceeds their energy output. Again, that’s remedial science.

Americans have by far the least freedom of movement in the rich world. That’s also a sheer fact.

But facts don’t penetrate John’s world, obviously.

P.S. How does one “telecommute” to the only jobs the glorious private sector is creating — waiter, prep cook, medical assistant, cashier? “Telecommuting” is a myth for suckers.

what is the mechanism for the (relatively little) increase in world temperature causing a huge increase in carbon dioxide? and how can you tell relatively short lags in time, how can you tell which came first with our dating techniques?

as for the the tides generation, that idea is nothing new, has been around for “generations”. yes, sounds so simple. again, there are no silver bullets. the reason we don’t have huge tide facilities supplying oodles of power is that the devil is in the details, people have worked on the concept and found it not to be feasible — maybe economically, maybe there’s some technology bottleneck. not to say it won’t become feasible with breakthroughs in technology (which technology i don’t know, as i know next to nothing about this, but i know how the process works in energy technologies). there’s no vast conspiracy against tides, or solar, etc., they’re simply not feasible on large scale yet (unless heavily subsidized as in germany). just like there were no conspiracies against hydro (which is a form of solar).

the telecommuting is a great idea and would lead also to an increased “happiness index”.

and learn some grammar.

Again the BS about the speculators. How do they “hold” these commodities, the huge quantities if they are to make any difference in price, to sell them later? Where are the holding facilities (i.e., huge tank farms holding BILLIONS of barrels of oil), the huge fleets of tanker trucks, etc. located, all in the name of “Mr. Speculator”? Can you show me that?

And how does “shorting” the market cause price spikes? Up until we enter your “progressive” world where fantasy is proclaimed a “fact”, shorting always leads to price depression. Do you even know what shorting means?

The speculators are a drop in the bucket. Look at the NUMBERS as to how much oil they’re responsible for (the oil that is NEVER taken out of the market, as there are NO holding facilities), vs. the total worldwide supply/demand (i did in response to a july 5 article by blum and jun 25 article by whitney). But numbers and real “facts” are anathema to “progressives”. It’s better to spout favorite theories of how the world SHOULD work.

You’re right about the falling dollar. The other factor is instability in the Persian gulf. And there could be others, probably less influential. But the “speculators” are next to nothing — not because I like the banks (which are blamed for speculation w/o any proof) — I don’t, but because the numbers and the facts fall where they do.

I hadn’t heard about the 31,000 scientists and their petition before, so I went online to read more about it. Turns out that the “31,000 scientist” claim is only correct if we redefine the terms “31,000″ and “scientist.”

According to the Global Warming Petition Project website itself (http://www.petitionproject.org/gwdatabase/GWPP/Qualifications_Of_Signers.html), only 9,021 of the signers hold PhDs, and the nature of those PhDs is unspecified.

2,200 are MDs and DVMs (I didn’t know that being a veterinarian was the same as being a climate scientist).

12,000 — one third of the “scientist” signatories — only have bachelor’s degrees. I didn’t realize that my 15 year old BA in biology made me a “scientist.”

What’s even more “funny” is that the website claims that these degrees (including the BAs) “suitably qualify them [the signatories] to evaluate the research data related to the petition statement.” So according to these folks, not only does my BA make me a “scientist,” it also makes me qualified to speak out against the consensus of actual scientists with PhDs and plenty of research experience with actual climate science.

Crazy.

1. There was nothing contradictory in my post. Minimizing travel is desirable. People also have freedom of movement that only a tyrnnical dictatorship would seek to stop (Stalin big around here?).

2. I’m not the one claiming the water car works. A Japanese firm demonstrated it for the world press. I qualified in my statement that I was skeptical, yet hopeful it could work.

3. As that one critic has no idea what ice cores even are, perhaps he should do some research before chattering like a monkey about things he is blissfully unaware.

4. Infantile rants about “greed” aren’t going to get you anywhere in the real world. Did a junior high school stumble across Marx? Is that what happened here?

5. I also mentioned tide generation, of which there are numerous designs possible. No one seems to care. Yeah, Fuck Greed!!!!

http://crimesofthestate.blogspot.com/

Hilarious stuff, John!

Quiz question: Who has more transportation choice: a Parisian or a Los Angeleno? Why is that?

Meanwhile, you might bother to know some science, or at least take a look at your own sources before you swallow the next hook:

http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=85239&videoChannel=1

Good luck to you…

Your remarks about rising ice core temperatures and those of CO2 are also suspect: although I don’t have the data, I believe that CO2 monitoring has been tracked for over a century, and it’s been rising that entire period. Has anyone been recording ice core temperatures that long, and if so, where, and what were the results? If you’re measuring ice core temperatures, something other than temps have to be included in calculations, such as pressure and gravity — how do you know anything about ice core temperatures?

Based on this drivel, I’ll skip your blog, thank you.

But, he mentions some good ideas about alternative energy (finally), although tide generation, perhaps one of the most feasible and largest bang for the buck didn’t seem to get a mention.

I can’t agree with the juvenile rant of the no-cars author. That’s not reality. It never will be. People have a right to move around. Who are you to try and stop them?

I’m intrigued by the Japanese “water car” presentation on Reuters recently. Hopefully it’s not a scam and they really have discovered something world changing. One can hope.

http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=84561

I’m hoping that the talk is going toward tele-commuting and not physical commuting, too. Where is that mentioned? By giving businesses tax incentives to let their employees work from home as much as possible, much travel can be eliminated.

John Doraemi publishes Crimes of the State
http://crimesofthestate.blogspot.com/

The FACT is that America’s oil prices at the pump is up for only two reasons. And they are NOT because China and India are competing with the US for those resources. California Alone consumes More oil than the entire Chinese market does at this time. So that’s just BS.

The fact is that your own government has allowed the rapid devaluation of the US dollar to fall so low on the world markets that it now only buys half of what is use to. The other major factor is that this same government with their policy of FREE UNRESTRICTED MARKETS(ie: with No Regulation and No Market Oversight has allowed predatory SPECULATORS in the market who buy up Oil Futures and hold them only to release those commodities when that price is at it’s highest profit margin, and that price spike is created by their action of holding and shorting the market. THOSE ARE THE FACTS.

The BS we were sold over the last 20 years by Industry Sectors (Banks & Manufactures) that it was the OVER REGULATION of the Markets was the cause of the America’s Uncompetitive Nature. So one by one they Lobbied, Advertised and Media Assaulted the Citizens and THEIR Government to Blindly following along until ALL Market Protections and the Agencies that were put in place as protection oversights were crippled or rendered non existent so that these Corporate Giants could control the commodity markets and CLEAN UP by PROFITEERING!

The banks, Unregulated, were allowed to sell mortgages to those who would not have qualified had the interest rates been allowed to rise naturally, and over qualified others well beyond their means.
Had the interest rates of those loans and interest rates in general been allowed to move to higher levels America would not be in the State of Free Fall that it finds themselves in now.

The Arabs are NOT Running out of oil any more than Canada has a problem getting oil from the Tar Sands. Peak Oil is only the light oil that floats atop of the Heavier Crude which required less processing and refining and only represented less then 20% of the worlds total oil reserve. What is left in the ground in the Middle East and everywhere else is still 80+% of all the crude that has always been there(so we’ve burnt through the easiest oil to pump over the last6 100 years) But I can tell you that the cost of processing that heavy crude is still 75% more cost effective to process and ship overseas to America than is the extremely Labor & ENERGY intensive processing (not to mention damaging to the environment due to strip mining and abusing the Waters of the Athabasca water shed.

Sometimes I think America can’t see the Forest for the Trees!
It’s not the publics fault that aren’t being notified or educated on the TRUTH. They are being abandoned by their government to fend and educated themselves while they are being distracted and bombarded by disinformation that protects these PROFITEERING PIRATES in your own FREE MARKET!

America needs to seek a new direction. It’s called “THE FAIR MARKET”.
A Market that is protected and regulated against Corporate abuse on the behalf of the PEOPLE, By the People and FOR THE PEOPLE!
In China, Corporate Heads who are caught breaking the law are EXECUTED! Where is YOUR GOVERNMENT? Who’s Watching and Protecting the People and the Markets? UNDO the damage of the last 20 years and REINSTATE ALL GOVERNMENT REGULATORY COMMISSIONS back dated to 1980 and put back the tariffs on ALL foreign made products that would force industry to return to America or force them to leave America and face the tariffs as foreign manufactures and strip them of their citizenship.

Give incentives to those foreign manufactures who shift production to the US & Canada(NOT MEXICO) and create a new law that states that no foreign company can sell their product in the US market(this should be adopted by ALL Countries) unless they employ Americans to manufacture those product for this market.

Then make a new TAX law that looks at a Corporations annual losses and operating costs and compares that to ALL GROSS PROFITS then assesses their TAX BILL. A magic number (%) must be set for profits that balloon in scale when it exceeds (150%??) and increases every 25% they surpass that NET Profit.

Then change the laws on ALL MINERAL RIGHTS. THESE SHOULD BE HELD AND OWN BY THE STATE and the People! Then companies who want to mine or pump or refine oil have to bid for the contract, and all the profit goes to paying the countries taxes, covering, Defense, Military, Education, Road & Infrastructure maintenance and freeing all people who earn below $45,000 each, or $95,000 combined family income from paying ANY INCOME TAXES AT ALL. College could be FREE for any who wish to attend but must maintain a 75% grade average and then University can be subsidized to those who wish or deserve to attend(scholarships but those of wealthy privileged families have to pay, but at a far less expensive tuition rating to make things fair.
Teachers should earn no less than $45,000 US starting from grade 1 and salary increases with each grade level so that College professors are earning $100,000 a year and University professors above that pay scale. Hire the best educators and you will have the best educated country in the world.

All the problems that exist in the US today can be squared up at the feet of successive failed governments & policies since 1962, and the unceasing encroachment into Personal & Civil Rights at the behest of Industry & Corporate Interests driven by PURE GREED!

CAP THE PROFIT$ AND KILL THE GREED!
Just study what Jesus said and did on the steps of the Pharisees when he trashed the tables of the “Money Changers”! “USURY” in ALL it’s Forms is against God’s Will, Scripture and Humanity. If American’s want Freedom, They NEED FAIR MARKET PRACTICES…. AND REGULATIONS to keep the the 666 CORPORATE BEAST’s under thumb! Chain them to the rock for 1000 years!

Undo all the laws that stops people from suing government and corporations and impeach the entire staff of the WHITEHOUSE NOW!
Make Market Speculation ILLEGAL!
Tie the Dollar to GOLD and make FIAT Money CONSTITUTIONALLY Illegal!
Take Back the banks from the Privately Held FEDERAL BANK and make it the Bank of the People of AMERICA and only print money backed by Gold then Force Compliance onto the rest of the Banks.
Make getting off oil a priority with a 10 year window for total freedom from Hydrocarbons on a increasing scale, And free Free Enterprise so they can pursue new technologies in Wind, Solar, Power Storage and yet to be exploited technologies for creating Cheap Hydrogen from pure water and without all the stupid & costly chemical methods now being proposed as a blind alley to distract you from the facts and reality thats created just to keep OIL in place as “The Only Solution~Game in Town~Monopoly”!

THIS IS THE MISSION TO SAVE AMERICA AND DEMOCRACY!

Before God can Save America, America itself must start by Saving Itself!

Corporate Will does NOT equal GODS WILL!
as they would have you believe…. DEAL WITH THAT TRUTH!

And God Bless the AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!!
Without the American People… There is No AMERICA!!!

IF it wasn’t for the endless bailouts and CORPORATE WELFARE there would be no Corporate Giants out there to steal your rights and lobby that Corporations have the SAME RIGHTS AS HUMANS TO EXIST!!!

Take away Corporate Rights and Replace them with Corporate Taxes & Regulations! That’s what they need to keep them focused on working with the society they claim to belong to. The DEMAND Corporations keep referring to has been usurped and changed into meaning only what you want as CONSUMERS! You are not CONSUMERS. You are the PEOPLE who DEMAND CHANGE! DEMAND CORPORATE TAX INCREASES, DEMAND LOCAL MARKET MANUFACTURING IN TRADE FOR MARKET ACCESS, DEMAND CONSUMER & MARKET PROTECTIONS, DEMAND A JUST SOCIETY, DEMAND IMPEACHMENT, AND DEMAND IT NOW!!!!!!!! AND AS LOUD AS YOU CAN!!!