Comments on: Man With The Reverse-Midas Touch https://barelyablog.com/man-with-the-reverse-midas-touch/ by ilana mercer Fri, 04 Jul 2025 18:55:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: EngiNERD https://barelyablog.com/man-with-the-reverse-midas-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-8861 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:04:52 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=20832#comment-8861 Dear Ms Mercer

Nice comments

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=123427

As for the Chevy VOLT and other electric vehicles.

The greenies and other seem to forget a critical subject !

that subject is ENERGY and its sources:

So VOLT is a plug – in and uses electricity and NO gasoline

sounds to good

And where does this electricity come??

OOH you just plug it in and the magic ELECRICITY comes in wire!

BUT what makes this electricity?

AAAAAAH

You can make it at Nuclear Power Plants ( ooh Nuclear that a NO NO NO)

You can burn coal to run generators (oh that not good – pollution)

then there OIL fire generators AH back to Oil again!

We could use natural gas

OK there are Hydro plants they generate electricity but that is Not a big source of electricity ENERGY

Forget windmills they do NOT contribute significant energy to the electrical grid. Hey Didn’t the late Senator Kennedy want to ban Windmills on Martha’a vineyard as being unsightly

So here’s the question:

We get rid of our gas – guzzling cars and replace them with millions of all – electric vehicles.

How are we going to supply the millions of kilowatts of electricity (Energy) to run the cars?

EngiNERD

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By: james huggins https://barelyablog.com/man-with-the-reverse-midas-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-8860 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:31:18 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=20832#comment-8860 Except for those masses of cheering, black teenage girls who seem to make up the hand picked audiences attending Obama’s “town hall meetings”, and a few other non thinkers even the faithful have reached the point where they realize his speeches are just so much yak dung.

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By: Myron Pauli https://barelyablog.com/man-with-the-reverse-midas-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-8858 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:37:50 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=20832#comment-8858 Link to the excellent analysis of the ridiculous Chevy Volt:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/advanced…/why-the-chevy-volt-doesnt-add-up

Another link to the fraud known as Grasslands Ethanol:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/loser-grassolines-dark-side

All this economic meddling reminds me of Nikita Khrushchev’s Virgin Lands campaign:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Lands_Campaign

GOVERNMENT DOES NOT CREATE WEALTH, although it can impede its creation. A free market, through trial and error and the laws of supply and demand, will. The only constitutional powers given to Congress on the economy is to coin money (hopefully honestly and not the Federal Reserve deceit) and patents/copyrights (sadly abused).

Tax Credits is a transfer of money from future generations (via debt and counterfeiting inflation) to those who generally pay no taxes. Those who pay most of the taxes generally get none of the tax credits. The 1787 Constitution talked about GENERAL Welfare and UNIFORM taxes as opposed to the specific, corrupt, manipulative use of the tax power by Republicrat/Demoplicans. As Daniel Webster observed “An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy.”

LESS GOVERNMENT EQUALS MORE JOBS via: (1) reducing regulation, (2) simplifying, not adding to, the tax code, (3) reducing spending and debt, (4) lowering marginal tax rates – especially on savings.

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By: Gringo Malo https://barelyablog.com/man-with-the-reverse-midas-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-8856 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:31:45 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=20832#comment-8856 Electric vehicles might make sense if we could generate most of our electricity in nuclear plants. If we confine the discussion to American commercial nuclear plants, it’s still true that more people have been killed in Ted Kennedy’s car. The Argonne National Laboratory claims to have tested a passively safe design. Give me cheap nuclear electricity generated using uranium mined in America, and I might just buy an electric car, assuming that the batteries will have improved by the time the plants are built.

Electric cars do, however, create another problem. What will happen when some other Kennedy drives his electric car into salt water?

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