I found this little tid bit the other night whilst checking into some high tech log splitters like this little jewel.

Palax Power100S

This is another method that seems to work rather well.

WORLDS FASTEST LOGSPLITTER

Anyhow, it really doesn’t matter how you split the wood if you don’t have the woodchucks to chuck the wood in the first place.

So here ya go America. We salute you!

Well actually global cooling may be a better way of putting it. Temperatures are expected to drop into the single digits next week and maybe that will help mitigate Al Gore’s stupid BS. Whether you like it or not, you can’t control the weather folks. Live with it or perish.

So it looks like I’ll be needing those nice chunks of hickory and oak I squirreled away this past summer after all. I’ll just stick them in the wood processor as fast as I can. The Harman wood boiler I installed and modified has proven to be one of the best investments I’ve ever made. Sure you have to buy the chain saws, have the truck, find the wood and move it, move it again, and repeat. Hmmm…..

Got to split now. Wood that is.

Oh, I’d also like to welcome our newest addition to the blog roll:
Conservative Black Woman

Can we fix it is probably a better question.

Dumb Or Ill-informed

What assumptions do congressmen make about the American people? Do they assume that we’re dumb or ill-informed about the energy problems we are experiencing? Every time there has been a huge spike in gasoline prices, Congress hauls oil company executives before their committees to accuse them of greed, obscene profits and price-fixing. One federal investigation after another of supposed oil company misconduct turns up nothing to substantiate congressional allegations. Unfortunately, the congressional hearings make front page news and lead the evening television news, but the results of federal investigations that follow are only casually mentioned deep in the body of newspapers and get little or no time on the evening television news. If news media people had an ounce of integrity, they would highlight the federal investigation findings that undermine congressional charges of oil company misconduct and they would question the congressmen who made those charges.

Americans might prefer heroes-and-villains explanations to problems to reality-based explanations. A politically satisfying explanation for today’s $4 a gallon price, when it was less than $2 a gallon a couple of years ago, is because oil company executives have all of a sudden become greedy in their pursuit of “obscene” profits. As such, congressmen, as our heroes, should call these greedy men on the carpet and take sanctions against them in the forms of windfall profits tax, price controls and other measures to take away their ill-gotten gains — never mind the effects of the 1980 windfall profits tax. According to the Congressional Research Service, the 1980 windfall profits tax had the effect of decreasing domestic production by 3 percent to 6 percent, thereby increasing American dependence on foreign oil sources by 8 percent to 16 percent.

Controlling the price of anything is very difficult and it can only be accomplished through the force of government, mostly by restricting supply. The U.S. Congress is a major player in oil supply restriction, and OPEC nations must be laughing all the way to the bank. Congress has banned energy exploration in 85 percent of our coastal waters. Ironically, China, in conjunction with Cuba, is drilling for oil nearer to our coastline than U.S. oil companies are permitted.

According to “We don’t have to take $4 gas prices — we can drill,” written by Sterling Burnett in the Houston Chronicle (5/21/08), “It is estimated that beneath America’s coast lies enough oil to fuel 60 million cars in the United States for 60 years and enough natural gas to heat 60 million homes for 160 years. … If allowed access to American oil reserves in Alaska and off our coastline, American oil companies could increase our country’s reserves an estimated fivefold, taking the United States from 11th place to fourth among the countries with proven oil reserves.”

You say, “What about the environmental impact?” Contrary to the hysterical claims made by environmental extremists, caribou and other wildlife have expanded and flourished in and around Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay, unaffected by the oil and gas development. What’s more, Burnett points out that the “two leading environmental groups, the Audubon Society and the Nature Conservancy, have allowed oil and gas production on several of their most important and unique nature preserves.”

Environmentalists come to their senses when non-drilling philosophy costs them something. It’s two-faced hypocrisy. At times I’ve suggested that the best way to get oil exploration in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve is to give the land to environmentalists. You can bet they wouldn’t sit on billions of dollars of oil and gas.

The true villain in our having to cough up $60, $70 or $80 to fill our gas tanks is the U.S. Congress caught in the grip of environmental extremists. But if reality is too difficult to swallow, we can continue to blame and support the congressional attack on oil executives, turn food into oil and think of other crackpot “solutions.”

With a tip of the hat to Scarlett over at Ironic Surrealism for the following quote:

” It is not fear that grips me… only a heightened sense of things.”

Life is a commodity just as is everything we use to sustain it is. It’s a zero sum game at best, and it’s the physics of the matter that you can’t ignore. The end result is always the same: Nothing in, nothing out, and an empty suit helps no one.
Barrack Obama may be for “change”, but that’s just ignoring the problems we’re already facing as a nation. You can’t burn socialism to fuel your economy regardless of what Al Gore and the anthropogenic global warming crowd try to tell you. Hot air still needs heat to get that way, and no amount of CO2 spewing from their mouths will change that equation. They just add to the problem with more of the same. Change should be what people get for their effort in life, and not what the government takes away from you and gives to someone else. Oil will still be greasing the wheels that didn’t come off in the long run, whether we like it or not.

The economic engine will be throttled if the false prophet (read profit) AGW crowd continue to dictate policy for a world looking for real time energy solutions. That’s just doing the same stupid shit and expecting different results. Carbon caps are about the same thing as wearing a tin foil hat and barking at the moon or voting for John Kerry or Obama. You’ll get the same results every time. We’re talking energy in the long run either way you look at it folks.

DrumBeat: June 6, 2008

Expider out/ stacking my carbon credits for a brave new world…….

H/T to The View From 1776 for the links.

“News Flash”

Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age

Temperature Monitors Report Widespread Global Cooling

Measuring the Phoenix Urban Heat Island

Global warming skeptics buoyed by record cold

UA prof challenges one of central beliefs about global warming

Ocean circulation in a warming climate

Chilling Effect

Junk Science isn’t the word for it folks. I was listening NPR on the way to work today (don’t ask me why I do this), and I learned that I could buy carbon credits if I felt bad for what I was doing to the environment. As far as I’m concerned most of the extra Co2 is coming out of the mouths of those promoting that sort of bunk. Repeat after me please: The temperature curve leads the Co2 curve. Sheesh..
With a H/T to bdfaith at Old War Dogs for the link.

By Steven Milloy at JunkScience.com.

As Al Gore, the United Nations, grandstanding politicians and celebrities, taxpayer-dependent climate researchers, socialist-minded Greens, climate profiteers and other members of the alarmist railroad relentlessly continued their drive for greenhouse gas regulation in 2007, the year’s scientific developments actually pointed in the opposite direction. Here’s the round-up:

1. Cracked crystal balls. Observed temperature changes measured over the last 30 years don’t match well with temperatures predicted by the mathematical climate models relied on by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), researchers reported.

The models predict significantly warmer atmospheric temperatures than actually occurred, despite the availability of more and better quality data and improved modeling efforts since the late-1970s.

“We suggest, therefore, that projections of future climate based on these models be viewed with much caution,” the researchers concluded.

Read more..

The recently passed energy bill includes the phasing out of the incandescent bulb. It’s just another example of knee jerk reactions from the so-called environmental movement and global warming crowd. More often than not these attempts to “go green” backfire on everybody and do more harm than good. It’s nothing other than feel good, nanny state politics run amuck.

Somewhere, Mr. Edison Gently Weeps The American Spectator

Kiss your bulbs goodbye WorldNetDaily

Popular Mechanics Lab Test

Read the comments section on the PM article for some insight as too how well CF bulbs work out in the real world.

H/T to bdfaith at Old War Dogs for the link. His daily “Politics and National Defense Roundup’s” are a good source for information in this brave new world we seem to have inherited.

The Ethanol Fallacy: Op-Ed. From Popular Mechanics

America needs smart alternative to oil, but the just-passed energy bill puts too much emphasis on the wrong alternative, PM’s editor-in-chief says.

The idea is so appealing: We can reduce our dependence on oil—stop sending U.S. dollars to corrupt petro-dictators, stop spewing megatons of carbon into the atmos¬phere—by replacing it with clean, home-grown, all-American corn. It sounds too good to be true.

Sadly, it is.

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I encourage everybody to watch this video that Matt posted over at 1913Intell HERE.

The audio is weak, so you may have to adjust your hearing aids or speakers somewhat. Niall Ferguson is right on target in the geopolitical sense, he makes some points that should be common knowledge, but are never heard by most.

Oh, while we’re on the subject check this out:

The Stale Fortune Cookie Of U.S./ Red China Foreign Policy

The Taiwan issue is going to come up in the near future whether we like it or not. Remember that and vote accordingly. Your life may be in the balance of it all….

In more ways than one folks.

Senator James Inhofe just kicked Al Gores butt right back into the ice age. Repeat after me folks: The CO2 curve follows the temperature curve, Al Gore didn’t create the Internet, and this planet can take care of itself.

UN issues ‘final wake-up call’ on population and environment

Carbon credits or fools? You decide….

Give me a break please!

This is rather interesting in a way though, (not you Dan, the other Rather), and does give me some pause for thought. An engine that runs on air only, and no fuel? Ouch! That makes my head hurt. Oil Well, I think I’ll need a little more information before I’d want to call this one.

The Video is HERE PESWiki has more HERE
Yikes! No more Internet for me today. I’ve already got more information than I can use. Can I trade some of it in for carbon credits?

On a related note, this is something that might be viable:

Thermal Electric

Here’s something Jerry Woodall is working on to create hydrogen on demand using gallium and aluminum to crack it from water. Heh, at least it works……..

Purdue Process Generates Hydrogen From Aluminum Alloy

Either way you look at it folk’s, you need a little oil to make it all happen…….

Getting rid of the cobwebs doesn’t mean the spider won’t be back. The rest as Rurik would say, is history………

I just watched my obligatory 10 minutes of TV while I was getting my lights out meal for the day. I tuned into C-Span folks, and lo and behold, John Kerry was doing his Global Warming best to act (?) like Al Gore. I honestly don’t understand how people can take this stuff seriously. And just who’s side is Newt on here? Anyhow, so much for TV, I think I’ll pass……….

Kerry and Gingrich Hugging Trees — and (Almost) Each Other

Dana Milbank reports on the supposed debate and has a video of the dog and pony show at the following link:

Washington Sketch: A Warm Debate on Global Warming

What a circus….

Let’s face it folks, this guy has jumped the shark. The whacko crowd trying to scare us with nature is a no go and needs smacked down once and for all. He’s just advocating socialism and padding his pockets at the expense of the rest of us.

I burn wood, but bunk might work also Al. Do you deliver?

This video says it all for anybody that can see BS for what it is. I just don’t understand how people can take the man seriously.
http://www.citynews.ca/news/features_8084.aspx

This documentary from Britain’s Channel 4 is something you should watch: “The Global Warning Swindle“.

Thomas Sowell has a column at Real Clear Politics that shines some light on this subject also.