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I read a remarkable statement today from Oilprice.com stating that biofuels create carbon emissions.
Wow! Whoknew? Here I thought biofuels were all about carbon sequestration. Somehow it never occurred to me that planting the endless vistas of the Midwestern plains with solar powered photosynthetics in order to set them afire inside the vast army of ICE machines deployed by the automobile robofacturers of the world that were designed to do exactly that wouldn't unleash a single molecule of carbon ... how could I have been sucha fool!
But how was I supposed to know that using fossil fuels to first plant, then goose with fossil fuel-derived fertilizer, then spray with fossil-fuel-derived insecticides and herbicides all across an endless vista of prairies was merely the prelude, the setup, the equivalent of pouring barrels of oil onto the land and setting them ablaze so that we could then use the plants grown thereby to then set another blaze, would result in not less CO2 being vented into an atmosphere already besotted with it, but would result in more ... a lot more. After all, it's the Green solution. The Green Revolution, the Green New Deal. Whodda guessed the Green New Deal is being dealt from the bottom of the deck from the ship of fuels?
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| Melissa McCarthy receiving the Royal Blessing. (Wonder what he's grabbing ... ). |
With Dorian threatening the US southeast, having exhibited wind gusts of 220 mph during its rampage through the Bahamas and now barreling toward the only State in the Union with a ban on its own employees even mentioning Climate Change in any of their correspondence, and with the Amazon burning up as they burn it down, Bolsanaro has caught on to western media techniques and imposed a burning ban for the Amazon forest, which resulted in an additional 2,000 new fires being started there in the last 48 hours (per Business Insider) ... When you know a "Ban" is simply right-wing winking (Copying President Plump's laughably obvious body language as he "chastises" white Supremacists for the El Paso shooting, his message, delivered via his usual ploy of broadcasting, via his uncomfortable shifting of his bulky frame and laboriously studied reading of his teleprompter, that he means exactly zero of what he strives mightily to make clear he is being told to say) there is no reason to curtail what you've been told by that same govt is their REAL attitude, which is "Burn Baby Burn".
So now Bolsonaro can shrug and say, "See? I told them to stop, but they're criminals. What can I do?"
The similarity to The Donald's fawning acolyte Sarah Palin's, "Drill Baby Drill", is no coincidence, of course, because they both say the same thing, being that the commodity being drilled not only burns plenty of fossil fuels in the process of drilling it up and pumping it out, but, Quelle Surprise!, we are drilling them up for the sole purpose of burning them up. Aren't you shocked?
How tweet it is:
The one campaign promise the big fat Jackie Gleason-sized goon from the Men are from Mars-a-Lagoon is working hard to keep is his administration's unstinting support for changing the US into a Petro-State. This by keeping front-and-center of his Climate-Change-is-a-Hoax hoax. Because Combustenomics, has no alternative, no Plan "B", each one of those proposed being, like the ethanol scam, and all other biodiesel and renewable energy plan B's, no more than a ploy to extend the fossil fueled growth of our rabidly pro-creating species as far beyond the carrying capacity of the planet as is possible before the severe contraction and resultant destruction of entire economies.
DJ: "This very expensive global warming bullshit has got to stop."
DJ Max replaying the same tune: "It's just madness."
This is what differentiates our own President Plump from his G-7 counterparts: he has no compunction about admitting his plans to use climate change to bully the public into letting him do what's best for him and his class (despite the insistence of many that he has no class), while every one else is in an intractably hopeless situation, pushing us back into a medieval economic structure to be based on dynastic families instead of Divinely-appointed Monarchs ... not that the so-called leaders of the irreligious evangelicals, who believe in no god but Power, would shrink from the task of proclaiming him Ruler for Life if they were given the slightest opportunity to do so.
The rest of the Burn-it-to-the-ground crowd at the G-7 have nothing different to offer, but they shrink from being so bald-faced about it, preferring to try their hardest to maintain the charade that they are trying their best to cut emissions while growing every industry in their own country that increases those emissions, from airlines and tourism (WOW), to car robfacturing and fracturing, to the largest of them, the biofuels programs, only one of which, ethanol-from-corn, is mentioned above. Although that's not quite true. The Amazon fires are being deliberately set so as to plant enormous swaths of rainforest with sugarcane plantations to supply Brazil's own biofuel-from-sugar Combustenomic enterprises with product to refine. Copying the other government-subsidized (all of these burn-fuel-to-grow crops to burn more fuel to process those crops into fuel to in turn burn inside ICE machines are heavily subsidized ... and all of them slough off their heavily fossil-fuel-dependent products as "Renewable") purposely stoked reliance on combustenomics to keep tax dollars flowing into their otherwise empty coffers.
Coal is Australia's biggest export. OPEC’s oil production increased in August and the US rig count and oil production continues its maniacal race to pummel the earth until every drop of everything combustible is squeezed out of its splintered swiss-cheesed surface; but the one flaw, the one perhaps overlooked miscalculation in this mad rush for conflagration is made manifest by the fate of Iceland's WOW airline to which they had hitched their entire economy's future, the wreconomic impact of total reliance on ComBUSTenomics, never having been contemplated. Far from making a soft landing, as Bloomberg reports:
WOW Air’s bankruptcy has had such a negative effect on Iceland’s tourism sector that the country’s economy, which was previously estimated to grow by 1.8 percent, is instead on track to contract by 0.4 percent .
...it has crash-landed.
As it appears the airline’s demise may have tanked Iceland’s economy.
The parallel here to 2008 is undeniable. Per The Economist, Iceland had followed the suit of the larger countries, especially the US, in its pursuit of easy money:
Iceland’s Prime Minister David Oddsson promulgated Reagan-style policies and privatization.
Cronyism became rampant.
The banking sector grew rapidly, propelled by borrowed money. Icelanders could
access credit easily.
Housing prices escalated and consumption soared.
The economic recession the West plunged the globe into in 2008 began in Iceland when Iceland’s banks collapsed, wiping out 50,000 people’s savings, plunging its own citizens into debt while putting 25% of homeowners into mortgage default.
And now, leveraging the use of the tourism industry as a boon to economic growth, regardless of its total dependence on the continued escalation of the burning of fossil fuels, it grew itself into a tourist economy, one left bereft of tourists.
That is what the West, and none with more fervent disregard for its future consequences or less concern for its impact on the impossibility it creates of fostering less energy-intensive industries, than Plump's Bake America's Slate Kerogen (BASK). Like Iceland's WOW, Plump's BASK has leveraged the entire economy on a stratagem that has its own future failure guaranteed by the very wreconomics of depletion its proponents determinedly drill, and drill, and drill, and then drill some more, to deny.
The hope, as was Bush's in 2008, being that he'll have long ago absconded with his rehypothecated funds far ahead of the crisis hitting.
"It's called weather, [it] changes and you have storms and you have rain and you have beautiful days,"
Methane accumulation in the atmosphere is now occurring at a torrid pace. Such a rapid increase is resulting in the weather changes that the President callously laughs off as though they simply don't matter (Hey, it's only the weather), and as the entire slate of Democratic candidates remains silent on his haughty promulgation that, "You have storms and you have rain," as the Southeast drowns in wave after wave of torrential downpours flooding its streets and filling its basements with water wrung out of the atmosphere occasioned by the severe rise in methane and its accompanying VOC's (volatile organic compounds) of n-butane, ethene, toluene, methylbenzene and many other heat-trapping molecules, the President 's resident idiot at the DOE, that consummate Texan, Rick "The Dick" Perry, proclaims that they are "Freedom Molecules", but the people left dead from hurricane Dorian's heat-fueled EF-4 tornado-like force winds, were perhaps not as anxious to be "free" of their mortal coil as his callous remarks suggested.
But instead, if any reference at all is made to the link between hyper-amped storms and amped-to-hype promises of fracking's economic boom, it will only be as fleeting as the cry for gun control after this latest murder spree by one of Texas' unending parade of home-grown terrorists. Whereas every boom has its bust, t he fracking boom has the inevitability of its comBUSTenomics spelled right out for us to contemplate as we watch the sheets of rain cascade down from the sky in torrents. So let's just continue to ignore the fact that our DJ is playing the same tune as GW: Keep Pushing until something Breaks. Only this time, since no one will be able to say, "Nobody could've seen it coming", since everyone has already seen it coming, President Plump's already-contrived answer will be, "The Democrats did it to stop my Best-in-the-entire-World's-History Wreconomic Recovery".
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