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Green energy is the pipe-dream of coastal elitists, billion-dollar grifters, Big Government idolizers, idle urbanites, and just plain malinformed people who think electricity comes out of the wall.
But one of those coastal elites has finally had enough, saying now that “U.S. energy policy today has to be the arsenal of democracy” and the “engine of economic growth” that will some day make possible a “transition to a low-carbon economy.”
It only took seven months of brutal warfare financed by Russian oil profits made possible by Presidentish Joe Biden’s war on domestic energy production, but Thomas Friedman has joined Donald Trump and Sarah Palin in the “Drill, Baby, Drill!” fan club.
And Friedman did it on the opinion page of the Left’s Holy of Holies: The opinion page of the The New York Times.
Can you fracking believe it?
You remember Thomas Friedman, don’t you? He’s the author and New York Times columnist who once admitted longing for Beijing-style authoritarianism right here at home.
“What if we could just be China for a day?” Friedman pondered on Meet the Press in 2010. “You know, I mean, where we could actually, you know, authorize the right solutions.”
China is big on clean energy, or at least purports to be. Electric vehicles actually make a lot of sense for a country with literally hundreds of millions of people tightly crammed into coastal urban megalopolises. (Shouldn’t that be “megalopoli?” Anyway, SpellCheck disagrees.)
On the other hand, China is happy to pollute like mad, making and selling us the endless solar panels demanded by our green energy overlords.
That’s why I was actually shocked at just how reality-based Friedman sounds here: more here
Blind pig?
Blind pig? It was a blind pig raid that kicked off the Detroit riots in ‘67. Must be more than one meaning for blind pig.
Blind squirrel.
@joe — I first heard the “blind squirrel finds acorn” adage many years ago as “blind PIG finds acorn” and it has stubbornly stuck with me. Maybe it’s a Southwest Virginia thing; I heard it from my Aunt Phronia from Norton.
Al, just in case you’re interested.
https://bu.digication.com/race-relations-in-detroit/blind-pig-raid
I was 11 years old and living in the area.
Thanks @joe. I was indeed interested and learned something I should have learned a long time ago.
Nonethelss, Thomas Friedman is a corrupt, certified idiot, in a class with Paul Krugman.
Al, or anyone else, if you have an hour this is an awesome documentary. The primary topic is he ‘68 Tigers, but the ‘67 riots is a strong secondary topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4TyqqoDA8Q