American Values Alliance | Practical voice for progressive valuesOver at Dispatches from the Culture Wars, Ed Brayton addresses the media's current fixation with Obama's "elitism" (he eats arugula!!):
Al Gore is an idiot or an egomaniac. He really thinks that saying we can easily replace all of our fossil fueled energy needs with wind and solar in ten year. NO WAY IN HELL is that possible.
Let's take a very superficial look at how we use fossil fuels:
cars
trucks
trains
planes
asphault for roads
fertilizers for crops
industrial processes like:
steel making
glass making
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A good friend of mine from the dark ages of high school pointed me toward this site:
www.fivethirtyeight.com
It is quite impressive as far as objective data crunching goes.
The guy behind it actually makes a living through subscriptions to his Fantasy Baseball statistical analysis reports.
If you really want to some number to chew on check it out.
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