Which is worse?
The Epoch Times Article titled: Biden Wants to Kill 80 Percent to America’ Energy, reported the following statement:
“Perhaps over the next several decades wind or solar power will be cheap enough to meet our energy needs. But are we to starve ourselves of energy in the meantime? Are Americans willing to pay $4 or $5 dollars a gallon again to fill up their tank with Saudi or Russian oil or have to wait in long lines to fill up when they get mad at us and cut us off of their oil?”
The Purpose of This Post
Is to relate an ancient proverb warning and idioms along with my personal opinions of an old long-time legislature who does not have any manufacturing experience making drastic changes in energy policies.
King Solomon
Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning. (Ecclesiastes 4:13)
Excerpt – Gils Bible Commentary
Old – The wise man proceeds to show the vanity of worldly power and dignity, in the highest instance of it, which is kingly; and, in order to illustrate and exemplify this, he supposes, on the one hand, a person possessed of royal honor; who has long enjoyed it, is settled in his kingdom, and advanced in years; and who otherwise, for his gravity and dignity, would be venerable; but that he is foolish,
Youth – yet wise, and improving in knowledge, and willing to be advised and counselled by others, older and wiser than himself; he is much to be preferred to one that is old and foolish;
What’s My Point?
Having experience in manufacturing and purchasing energy for a very large supplier of power equipment for energy needs, when I read the opinion, it reminded me of the above ancient proverb.
We now have an old man for President who served his entire career in government politics, in his first week of office signed Climate Chane Orders which will take years to manufacture and implement the necessary machinery required to duplicate our present energy needs.
What is foolish is at the same time he is impeding continuance of American present energy source of coal, oil, and gas production which will lead to reliance on non-American source to supply our energy needs before the Green Energy hopefully become available in the coming decades.
My point is if we discern the ancient proverb, we are now experiencing an old foolish President (king) “who no longer knows how to heeds a warning.”
In My Opinion
The Texas Energy meltdown we experienced this week in the USA is a prime example of people in government who have no experience in either manufacturing or energy management who did not heed warnings.
While I personally would agree that green energy is better for our planet than what we have now, I also believe that it is going to take a long time to manufacture the equipment necessary and have the same doubts that Green Energy will ever be sufficient to meet our present and future needs.
In other words, the old idiom, “a bird in hand is worth two in the bush” is a much wiser, safer and more reliable path for the USA to follow than shutting down existing energy production in the USA and returning to rely on the Mideast again to meet our energy requirements along with running up more trade deficits.
Better that the old foolish man listens to the wise younger man who wrote the article in the Epoch times before our Nation becomes poor paying $5 a gallon again by having to rely on foreign sources for oil.
If Interested
Read the Source Link Below
You Decide
There is another old idiom, “The only thing worse than a young fool is and old fool.”
For example, which is worse? When a young fool focused on Green Energy writes up a Presidential Order for the President to sign is asked where does energy come from and he points to an electrical outlet?
Or an old fool who listens to the young fool and signs an Presential mandate which will return the USA to repeat the same folly we experienced of becoming dependent on sources 8000 miles away for energy, or for a N95 mask during a pandemic?
Is the idealist young man who wrote up the Presidential Order for the President to sign really wise or foolish?
Will legislators in Congress be wise to object or legislators foolish to be silent and allow the USA to become dependent again for our Nation’s energy needs?
Regard and goodwill blogging
Source Link
Epoch Times Opinion Stephen Moore February 10, 2021
https://www.theepochtimes.com/author-stephen-moore
Excerpt Biblehub = Gils Bible Commentary
Rudy u Martinka 
One of the observations I made early on when the recycling craze started was that recycling itself was going to create a completely new industry that would require the manufacturing of a complete infrastructure. That plastic pop bottle is going to require the manufacture of new containers for collection, new vehicles to pick it up, sortation methods/machines to process receiving it in bulk, and machines to melt it all down into some form for re-use. It certainly created millions of new jobs.. but to simply create the infrastructure for recycling to “save nature”.. we created waste and gasses and fossil fuel energy in the manufacture of all the machines. Trade off didn’t make a lot of sense in regards to “saving nature”, but it was great for job creation and environmental “appearance” of saving nature.. which was the entire goal to begin with.
The Going Green thing is the same. It’s the markets that are shifting away from fossil fuels dependency… not so much regulations. It isn’t going to happen overnight but as I mentioned in an earlier post… only 23% of power generation is coal… natural gas is king for the moment. GM is not making a gasoline engine anymore starting in 2035… just 14 years away. The economy is shifting…. and not entirely from just governmental controls. It isn’t about “old politicians”. This has been shifting for decades.
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doug/
the trouble too of ‘going green’ is that stuff is just so darn cheap. Everything made is inferior, breaks down/ styrofoam, plastic, etc etc, junk everywhere. Looked at a new car lately? Anyway, we should be aware of the enviro/ but there has to be a way of making a toaster that lasts more than a week. lol
(nice avatar btw/ u may want to look at my last post)
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I hear ya about the lack of quality control in some manufacturing processes. One of the drawbacks in trading with China.,, like the old days when everything was “Made in Japan” and the same as “crap”. Now Japan has quality. China will catch up (or is that ketchup? 🙂 )
Ah.. the avatar.. thanks. Life evolves, and so do avatars. When Trump lost I closed down my FindingPoliticalSanity blog (“my job here is finished”, kinda thing), and I also terminated using that Superman avatar. I “borrowed” this one from Paladin… using the motto derived from the “Have Gun. Will Travel” theme… “I’m a knight without armor in a changing world.” Purely an extension of an ego I wish I had.
I read the “math” post you had but since I am not Catholic (nor do I play one on TV) and know nothing of nuns and convents I didn’t feel I could comment with any credibility. As for vouchers in general…. the original concept of public education was that everyone contributes through taxation in a manner that is exactly the same as our general taxation paying for our collective common defense. Education… public education.. benefits the entire country and not just the individual into the process. Therefore I see this idea that a family can get some sort of tax credit to divert their taxable contribution toward general education to something more individualized simply out of choice as being counter to the public good and to the original intent of public education.
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In other words.. financing public education is a national necessity and not an individual option.
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Doug,
The cost to taxpayers to allow school vouchers for parents in poverty’s areas would be less than sending to public schools based on the differences in tuitions.
in the links I provided.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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So.. taxpayer funded public schools should “surrender” to the fact that a parochial school in a poverty area does a better education?
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You guys are far better equipped to discuss the politics of this or that.
As to the Catholic thing/ math/ not sure what u are talking about.
I pointed u to my last post/ Kasparov lecture/ chess/ ur new knight. 😉
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Doug,
Recycling is always going to be more costly method of disposing waste but if we do nothing to recycle, sooner or later we will run out of local area dumping areas. Can’t keep dumping in the oceans because it winds up gloating back of the beaches. Best thing to do is to chare more for items that have to be recycled to the purchase price of the items. Of cover the recycling added costs, in my opinion.
I agree the economy has been shifting for coal to natural gas. The result is even though we are still using coal, the pollution levels have been decreased because of the gas use without and strict regulations.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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Oh damn.. I thought I was commenting to Rudy!
Damn old people. 🙂
YES! Loved that video. That applications he cites between man and machine can also be carried into other avenues of human endeavor. I loved his reference to his use of body language of his opponent.. implying that a game was more than what’s happening on the board.
I was stationed up in Iceland during the Fischer/Spassky match.. although unable to attend it. All those guys were the greats of their day.
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Oh damn.. I thought I was commenting to Rudy!
Damn old people. 🙂
YES! Loved that video. That applications he cites between man and machine can also be carried into other avenues of human endeavor. I loved his reference to his use of body language of his opponent.. implying that a game was more than what’s happening on the board.
I was stationed up in Iceland during the Fischer/Spassky match.. although unable to attend it. All those guys were the greats of their day. 🙂
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Oopss… double whammy.. sorry Rudy.
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Is this working?
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I can’t post to your blog anymore. Nothing takes.
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