Fuel Prices - A Delightfully Unsolvable Problem For Enviro-Wackos

Recently, a long-time reader and part-time thinker expressed his anger at the "predictions" he claimed I was making about fuel prices, the future of the Warming religion, and other things, exactly what it's hard to know since his comments were apparently made while he was fully immersed in some sort of stupor. Nevertheless, I thought some clarifying was in order, since if he could have so badly misunderstood what I was saying, it's entirely possible that some other readers could have misunderstood ever so slightly. And you know me, I hate people to be in the dark about anything

So first off, let me make this perfectly clear - I was not predicting. I was merely detailing what was currently happening and extrapolating from there. In other words, what the warmists are saying about what will happen regarding "climate change"... those sorts of things are predictions - they may or may not happen, and since they are arising from rank speculation, any of their predictions that do come to pass are due to Newton's "Crap thrown at the wall" law.

I, on the other hand, was talking about what WILL happen given a continuing rise in fuel prices and the failure of the Democrat Congress to take any meaningful action. You don't have to be a genius (you just have to not be a liberal) to see that oil drives everything, and that the public's uncertainty about price and supply will have a fundamental effect on attitudes - even those of lesser liberals - of the man-on-the-street variety. They are the ones in which economics still trumps ideology, and they are the ones who will be most able to see (because they'll live it) the consequences of failed liberal policy.

Still, having said all that, I don't care if the least among us, i.e. liberals, want to call me a prognosticator, just as long as they don't call me late for dinner, even if dinner is a lot more expensive this year, and well, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

I'm so confident in what I've been saying that I actually have no confidence at all - because I don't need any. What I mean is, to say that I had confidence would also mean that I had some doubt, and since I am only commenting on what's actually happening, albeit it's early stages, words like "confidence" and "doubt" do not apply. Put another way - a way, one even rankest liberal can understand, you're about to see what the meaning of "is" is.

To that end, there's a thoroughly enjoyable article in that magnificent British liberal rag, The Guardian, this very day in which the headline itself would ordinarily be enough to send Hens worldwide screeching that the sky is falling: "Poll: most Britons doubt cause of climate change."

How is that possible? Hadn't they been thoroughly indoctrinated. Ah yes, but what liberals don't get is that economics and security will overcome indoctrination almost every time. Besides, the "warming" indoctrination actually was successful as this quote from the article will attest:

"Those most worried were more likely to have a degree, be in social classes A or B, have a higher income, said Phil Downing, Ipsos MORI's head of environmental research."

You see, the public schools did what they were supposed to do - and now reality is doing its job on real people. Me, I got rhythm, I got music, who could ask for anything more? Which is why the following quote is just the cherry on top - -

"There is growing concern that an economic depression and rising fuel and food prices are denting public interest in environmental issues."

YES! And gee, I hope it wasn't something I said?!?

Just kidding, as overly-serious as I may fancy myself to be, even I couldn't affect British thinking... could I? I mean I know I didn't set those European truckers to protestin' fuel prices... did I? No really, did I?

But seriously folks, -denting-? Well remember, the British ARE prone to understatement.

To be fair, the article wasn't all bad news for enviro-warmists. The poll shows people are rightfully doubtful... and cynical... and wary of "stealth taxes, and generally lacking in confidence that their government could handle anything, much less handle it competently, but on the bright side, they are still "broadly concerned" about "climate change."

I'm not worried. it's one thing to be broadly concerned about "warming," and quite another to be imminently concerned about one's degrading lifestyle.

Do I think the Fuel Crisis of 2008 will be the death knell for enviro-wackos? No? If I did, I'd be making a prediction, and if I were to do that, I'd predict just the opposite - no amount of discrediting will cause enviro-warmists to abandon their positions. Why there are still people who believe the Earth is flat, for God's sake. Although in their defense, even those people don't believe man is responsible for "climate change."

And the good news for me personally, and wackos everywhere should be pleased too, is that the rapid rise in fuel prices - and everything prices - has actually caused me to regain my sense of humor. I may be too serious on the outside, but I'm laughing on the inside that the enviro-warmists sowed the seeds of their own demise and that their comeuppance may finally at hand. Looks like we may not have to be hauling dry ice to the arctic after all!