The Obama blitzkrieg
Posted by Flootus5 8 years, 12 months ago to Government
Being in the resource extraction business, I and colleagues have said many times over the last year that Obama and his minions will pull out all the stops in his last two years in his agenda to fundamentally transform America.
Here is the latest. How well timed to dove tail with the non-listing Trojan Horse of the new Sage Grouse Management Plans.
Consider this opening statement: "We all have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave America's natural resources in better condition than when we inherited them."
Mining for the raw materials that drives our civilization extract natural resources that are finite. Iron ores, copper, gold, silver, zinc, lead, lithium, etc are in deposits that do not go on forever. The economic deposit gets mined out and the search goes on for more under changing economic drivers.
So we must leave them in better condition? This document is full of bureaucratic double speak and this is code for the agenda of stopping all mining. How well with that work out?
Here is the latest. How well timed to dove tail with the non-listing Trojan Horse of the new Sage Grouse Management Plans.
Consider this opening statement: "We all have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave America's natural resources in better condition than when we inherited them."
Mining for the raw materials that drives our civilization extract natural resources that are finite. Iron ores, copper, gold, silver, zinc, lead, lithium, etc are in deposits that do not go on forever. The economic deposit gets mined out and the search goes on for more under changing economic drivers.
So we must leave them in better condition? This document is full of bureaucratic double speak and this is code for the agenda of stopping all mining. How well with that work out?
They want wind power, but scream at the idea of windmills killing birds, or of the "devastation" of running high power lines to get the energy produced where it's needed. They want solar power, but wail over the "filth" of mining the materials necessary to produce solar panels. They want hydroelectric power but simultaneously want dams taken down so the fish can follow their natural, historic streams.
When faced with the reality that their blessed power sources are too expensive, they demand that the price of fossil fuels be raised so that their beloved clean energy can compete, in spite of the fact that the increase punishes the poor (whom they purport to love) the worst.
Reality, to the liberal, is the devil incarnate. The fact that fossil fuel must be used to create their dream of renewable energy, instead of being driven out of use is to be ignored. The fact that nuclear energy is the cleanest, most reliable non-polluting, non-carbon emitting energy source is inadmissible, as it's just "evil."
We can only hope that before our society reaches the point of collapse, people willing to deal with reality, including the law of diminishing returns, come into controlling positions. Sadly, the siren song of a perfect world with no unexpected consequences, however delusional, seems to have a grip on the minds of so many it will be difficult to bring people back to the real world.
Jan
may not be clear to the deluded -- like the downfall of
the rail line to the hotel in Key West. . Henry Flagler was
a visionary whose time had not yet come. -- j
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It really puts the squeeze on what little private land there is in Nevada by restricting the traditional grazing use of the adjacent public lands. They refused to acknowledge extensive studies and research that show sage grouse flourishes with a level of grazing and the risk of range fire is reduced. So, they are actually decreasing sage grouse habitat with their Land Plans. Scorch and burn.
I would love to get a glimpse of life in the USA in 50 years- just curiosity. Not a desire to live in it
before it runs aground on political correctness. . P.C.=death. -- j
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Somehow the industries are going to have to figure a way around it.
The next frontier's are the ocean floor and outer space.
How the hell do we beat that?
It sounds good, and he will be able to use this as a card to play for liberal audiences. The Gulch has made me aware (thank you, Gulch) that this probably won't happen - and that it does not matter to Obama if it does not. This edict is something that can easily be tied up in court (States-vs-Feds/ Landowners-vs-Feds) for long enough time to elect a different president...one who would rescind it.
This does not matter: Obama is not trying for anything productive, he just wants to be able to wave this about in support of Greens, post COP21. He does not really care if his edict will founder later on.
Jan
Trying to fight back in the courts is extremely disruptive and expensive for property owners and rarely succeeds.
These eco-fascist tactics of the viro preservationists are not reversed by future presidents, once established they become politically entrenched and not subject to reversal. They only grow, always in the name of "compromise", one step at a time. Part of that is due to the entrenched agency mechanisms that are rigged in favor of the viro pressure groups and insiders who live inside the agencies, but it is worse than even that. The National Park Service, etc. have been shafting private property owners for a century. Each instance is so abusive that the natural tendency is to at first believe that it is too extreme to happen, then when it does the victims aren't heard from in the PR din forever hyping that something has been "saved", with the usual quasi poetic imagery of scenery and furry animals. The wealthy, politically-connected viro pressure group lobby assures that politicians are unable to reverse their "gains".
Jan
Thanks db, an excellent quote from an excellent article. It goes to the heart of the current global machinations for the very control of what are finite resources. Because, the euphemism of "sustainability" defies the very reality that consumption of finite resources is not sustainable. Therefore, it is political, therefore disingenuous, therefore not cognizant of reality.
So, respectfully, I must take exception to your characterization that there is no such thing as a natural resource, and that it can't be finite.
The entire history of human existence, replete with all its conflict, progress, unique definition, and disasters, have been over the struggle for natural resources. Be it water, land, air, mineral, or livestock - human existence is dependent on these natural resources.
Now, maybe we can engage in discussion over what is "natural" - there is plenty of room for that - but it still comes down to the recognition of the properties of the real world around us. This is the essence of objectivism. The extent of our planet is finite. Any given material property contained therein is therefore finite.
Until and unless the Star Trek replicator or other such alchemy is invented, all resources are finite. The actual limits of this very measurable essence is of course a moving target as db suggests, based upon changing technologies, changing economics, and then yes, perhaps to the day when the infinite stars have become reachable to a very imperfect species known as humankind. But until then, the finite aspect is an undeniable reality.
With every bird shot, I can shoot another toward Washington D.C.
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he sure is doing that stopping the usa as fast as he can.
In essence Obama wants to weaken us as a nation. Just as ayn rand predicted in AS.
Come together.....right now....