Looking beyond the scandals – energy policies leave us unprepared

With nuclear off the table, and green energy failing spectacularly, it’s back to petroleum and coal.

We’ve been so focused on the world’s growing, Cloward/Piven destruction cycle because it continues to make everyone fear we are entering a long period of darkness. Well I’m here to help put those fears to rest, and replace them with sheer panic.

You see, while barack and his cronies are focusing your concerns on Syria and working overtime to blame our problems on stubborn Republicans, the lights here are barely flickering and the lines at the pump are short. My last order from Amazon arrived on time, Twitter’s still operational (unless you’re in China), and we’re now in the season of football and blockbuster movies.

We remain calm because the energy to drive us through and past the scandals and the darkness is what has kept us from panic. It’s hard to panic when you are arguing the relative merits of the lettuce at Whole Foods versus Krogers. But it’s time to look ahead a few quarters.

In the wake of the Fukishima reactor leaks and shutdowns in Japan, world leaders have put nuclear power out of reach for decades—if not lifetimes. Prime Minister Angela Merkel of Germany famously took nuclear power off the table, as she led Germany into Energiewende, a new policy of replacing the rapidly closing nuclear plants with green energy.

It’s like your Dad coming home after a bad day at work and declaring from now on, this family is going to seek a new, no-employment strategy for family prosperity. Key to this strategy will be the new, no-food and no-clothing concept that is sweeping the world.

As anyone but “leading economists” would expect, Energiewende is working out about as well as barack’s laser-like focus on jobs:

And people are not happy at all.

So you can click over to check the score of the game, while having a chuckle at those silly Germans who are paying the price of the green folly. We still have nukes here… and coal, right? Well the investor types are urging caution. The worldwide trend is to shut down the nukes. Unfortunately, we also have a persistent problem with government leaders wanting to shut down coal plants. So the folly in Germany is simply the leading edge of the curve. The one thing barack has promised that actually happened was that energy costs would skyrocket. Energy is now for the rich; a luxury item for the well-connected.

So naturally, petroleum-based energy is being relied upon in heavier amounts than planned (well, they called it “planning”, at least). (EDIT: Expect the calls to finish the full Keystone pipeline to be the trading chip barack will offer to help Republicans cave in upcoming negotiations with Congress.)

At some point, the skyrocketing is supposed to level off. Unfortunately it appears that the perfect storm of massive debt, skyrocketing energy costs, and the purely political damping of coal, nuclear, and natural gas will meet the nexus of barack’s race-based agitating and mass importation of free labor for his crony capitalist friends. The crash is going to be spectacular.

(Yes, those vids are from RT – Russian propaganda? Maybe. It’s different from barack’s propaganda. Do your own homework. It’s not just the RT folks who know about this. Click on some of the links above.)

by K-Bob


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