Monday, September 08, 2025

“It Is Common Knowledge That Whale Oil Is the Only Reliable Source of Energy.”



-- Mr. Ken Verybigliar, chairman, International Whale Oil Consultancy, LLC.


Energy Secretary Attacks Offshore Wind and Dismisses Climate Change

Chris Wright, who travels to Europe next week to promote American gas, called climate change “not incredibly important.”

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Friday defended the Trump administration’s decision to block a nearly completed $6.2 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island by saying offshore wind increases electricity prices and by downplaying the jobs at stake.

Energy experts accused Mr. Wright of oversimplifying the economics of offshore wind energy, noting that while it requires a significant amount of upfront capital to build a project, it was expected to create more than 55,000 jobs by the end of the decade and enough electricity to inexpensively power 22 million homes before the Trump administration took steps to throttle the nascent industry.

A former fracking executive, Mr. Wright said the focus in the United States to transition away from fossil fuels had hurt the country...

He called the 2015 Paris agreement, in which the United States and nearly every other country pledged to reduce greenhouse gases, “silly.”

“Climate change, for impacting the quality of your life, is not incredibly important,” Mr. Wright said. “In fact, if it wasn’t in the news, in the media, you wouldn’t know.”...


Sometimes you just have to take a moment, sit back, and wonder at the towering stupidity, not just of Trump and his cabinet, and his department heads, and not just the Republican senators who confirmed most of them, but of the tens of millions of racist, inbred meatbags who voted for all of this in three consecutive elections. 

 Sure, it's all horrible, but sometimes one incident sticks its head above the Great Scrum of Idiocy and demands special attention. 

Like rubbernecking a multi-car pileup the size of Montana where one group of idiots just keep driving more cars into the burning wreckage, while a much larger group of idiots cheer them on.  And then one brave man steps forward and announces, "Damn it, it's not enough to just pile my car into the inferno! I'm shall build a mighty ramp of paper-mâché and Trump flags and jump straight to the top of it in a motorcycle made of farts and old dynamite."



Burn the Lifeboats


6 comments:

AlbertEShort said...

The biggest hurdle for grid storage is that the generators make their big money in the peak auctions and thus consider it "the devil'. The Texas(ERCOT) utility is split into generators, grid mgmt, and "last mile" services. 11 years ago, when grid storage was over 3X as expensive as it is now in nominal terms, the grid manager Oncor announced it planned to buy several GWh of batteries to bank some of the otherwise worthless 13 GW of wind that blew across west Texas each night and sell it back at peak to Dallas and Houston. The generators bought every lege member they could find and stopped them. https://www.utilitydive.com/news/whatever-happened-to-oncors-big-energy-storage-plans/404949/ The incumbent energy companies will fight like they did in 2014 to stop Oncor unless the perverse incentives in the market are removed.

KingBolete said...

I guess we should all be thankful that the Good-Ole-Days doesn't reach back to the whale-oil era but then again abrogating the whaling moratorium might be the next outrage they've got up their sleeves.

Anonymous said...

You know how the right get so panty twisted over gun possession for protection. Then they defer to Thoughts and prayers when it doesn't work out how they in vision it.
Those same panties are twisted up in knots again. This time over Prayer in School.
If your gun doesn't do it, then prayer should take care of it. Or is it vice//verse?
Find it interesting how SCITUS can find loophole excuses in the constitution for Trump's excursions into lawlessness but by golly, the 2nd Amendment is the law and it must be obeyed at all costs. As for prayer, It has not shown any effect on the Prez, The GOP or the SCOTUS.
It leaves us no choice but to begin prayers by holding the serpent. Yes handling rattle snakes at school as prayer. That should get God's attention unless the rattle snake gets yours first.

Anonymous said...

For the record. I am 100 percent for wood fired steam engines. We need to convert our autos .
Wood fires also kept our ancestors warm in the caves and it should be good enough for us too.

Anonymous said...

As the whale oil industry was decimated by more efficient mantles and the production of kerosene, it tried to make the case for subsidies for "national security" reasons. History rhymes.

Cinesias said...

Every single oligarch knows vaccines will and will ensure their children and grandchildren are vaccinated. They also know that climate change is real, which is why they're attempting to destroy the US as fast as possible so that they can finally get started finishing their fiefdoms with which to defend themselves from tens of millions of US citizen climate refugees in just a few short years.