Wednesday, August 5, 2009

so um the push for electric cars....

Yeah I don't see a big EPIC FAIL on the governments part. Our grid is stretched to its limits as is and we have yet to address any new base load generation power plants. so what happens when we all go buy electric cars and plug them in at night? I will tell you.. Rolling to total blackouts/brownouts across the country. Solar and wind do not have the capacity factor nor the efficiency. so you have one of two options. Nuclear or Fossil fuels..It takes years to construct either plant, longer for the nuclear due to the licensing procedures. At the moment with no construction going on, you are looking at 2016 for the first new nuclear plant..I do not track the fossil plants but i do know that a new one has been proposed for west Kansas.
What does all this mean to you? well with the new "cap and tax" bill you will pay more because of your increased energy usage. suffer power loses at home while you are trying to relax and watch that favorite sitcom of yours, and be forced to listen to the misses complain why you haven't fixed the shelf in the bathroom yet. good job environmental nut jobs....your efforts are as futile as the mission accomplished sign presented by Bush on navy ship.

A random wednesday blogging

It is pretty bad when an engineer has to do the work of a programmer..it is worse when the engineer hates programming. but neither of this is as bad as what happened yesterday...
as many of you know i hate jimmy carter. he turned his back on his nuclear background and royally messed up my industry. but at least he got captives freed. It is completely pathetic that nobody in Washington could free the two illegal immigrants (two very dumb lady journalists who decided hey lets go into NK and do a story for al gore's news related company) so they send in Former President Clinton...His wife couldnt do it, obama couldnt do it, nor could pelosi, reid or any other asshat in DC. Those who couldnt do it are too worried about socializing the country than its own citizens..watch out.. it is very clear that obama has a lax foreign policy and a do not care attitude or he would have gotten them freed many weeks ago. It took Clinton one day...ONE DAY and obama couldnt give them one day of his town hall meetings that spam the air waves with mass propaganda about how great his health care plan is and how much it will NOT raise taxes for anybody but the rich and small businesses. the later of the two not really mentioned until you look at the figures. tax increases on companies who pay out more than 350k per year on salaries. Say each person is 50k each then you have a company with 7 people.. if that isnt a small business then what is.
cash for clunkers has seemed to kick-start the economy or has it? fact. it will take time to tell.
opinion. no, people have been wanting to trade in cars for various reasons but due to the economy and the unknown of the auto industry they have continued to drive their cars hoping they would last longer but due to the rebates and insane amount of savings they jumped on the opportunity to save money and get a new ride. i believe that when the program is over we have another dip in the recession.
in all honesty fix the damn economy before you force socialized medicine down my throat. you only have a year left before your democratic congress may turn into a republican one and ban every piece of garbage you try to push through. you can stop it if you were smart but why listen to me...history will repeat itself.