I was talking with my dad during the Christmas Holiday and he showed me this picture of himself and my grandmother in about 1950 on their ranch, north of Woodruff, Utah.
You can see in the background the coal shed, the outhouse, the granary, the workshop, the ice house, and the garden. When my grandparents bought this ranch in 1946, it did not have running water, electricity, or indoor plumbing.
The very modest, two room home/cabin (not shown) was heated with a cooking stove in the kitchen and a heating stove in the front room, both of which vented up a common flue. They burned wood and coal.
In 1950, my grandmother brought home her new baby, my aunt, to the ranch. Can you imagine her joy in finding that the house now had electricity, running water, and a propane-fueled automatic furnace to keep the place warm? The ranch is located in a small valley west of the Crawford mountains at 6800 foot elevation. The winters are very cold and long and the short summers are very mosquito.
The photo looks like something out of the depression era, but some postwar prosperity was finally coming to my grandparents’ family. Nineteen fifty must’ve been an amazing year to have electricity, running water, central heat, and my grandfather took delivery of a brand new Farmall C tractor. My dad, who was 12, drove the tractor home from the dealership in Randolph.
I suspect that many of my readers have similar stories of their grandparents and great-grandparents, but I want to point out that a modicum of energy abundance has only been in existence for the lifespan of my father. However, the last 30 years has seen a constant agitation by satan worshiping malthusians to curb our use of energy, because climate.
Somebody once quipped that the golden age of the United States was between the advent of indoor plumbing and the income tax in 1913. I’m here to tell you that most of our families missed that. They never experienced that golden age.
Here’s a picture of all the pedophile billionaire censorious blackmailed “leaders” meeting in Dubai last December to discuss climate change again at COP28. Nearly half a million of them met there to figure out how to deprive us of the tiny energy that we use to keep ourselves from freezing to death. (Please note that ~70% of the landmass of the earth lies very far north and is unlivable without energy. Human caused climate crisis, my ass!)
What we have is a crisis of accountability and consideration for the other 8 billion people on the planet by the pedophile billionaires and their blackmailed puppets in government.
This sub-stack has presented, in an extremely modest way, technology that has been ignored, suppressed, regulated out of existence, and blacklisted. Technology that can provide humanity with all the energy we need.
(Side Note: BTW, if I had a private jet, I’d fly the hell out of it. I have said many times before in this sub-stack, I do not believe that carbon dioxide released by mankind is causing a detrimental change in the climate. Further, it is not clear that the climate is even changing more than it usually does. Our climate is not optimal now. It’s an abomination. We live on a partially frozen planet. Tell people that endure harsh winters that the temperature is going to go up one and half degree Celsius in 100 years if they keep driving their cars and trucks and using furnaces to heat their homes. That story is absolutely laughable. No one is afraid of a degree and a half, especially if they have to endure harsh winters for six months of the year, every year.
Envision for a moment the incredible freedom of walking up to your own private jet, climbing up the stairs and flying to wherever you want to go and avoiding the $4 billion shit hole indoor exercise track called the Salt Lake City International Airport. That freedom I would enjoy every day for the rest of my life. Besides who likes getting fondled by TSA? Do you think the elite get fondled by TSA? What I decry is the rank hypocrisy of the elite flying, always flying to their conferences, where they scheme to stop us heating our homes or driving our cars.)
Millions of words have been written to demonstrate the unworkability of all of the energy schemes coercively forced upon mankind by the likes of the Biden Maladministration and the other polititards and blackmailed puppets of the world. (See Watts Up With That? for more than a decade of posts about the unworkable and stupid schemes of our coercive leaders narcissistic sociopath hectors.)
Green laws and regulations are so farcical, I have to conclude that their intention is to kill many billions of us and force those remaining into utter destitution and starvation. I for one am sick to death of their constant jawboning, hectoring, and regulating. I say to each one of them, go to hell. Go to the hell that you’re building for us. We’ll stay where we are.
Thank you for putting up with my New Year’s rant.