By J Desmond McGrath ——Bio and Archives--June 6, 2014
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"The most urgent problem facing America today. -- It's increasingly destructive economic trade relationship with a rapidly rising China. Since China began flooding U.S. markets with illegally subsidized products in 2001, over 50,000 American factories have disappeared, more than 25 million Americans can't find a decent job, and America now owes more than 3 trillion dollars to the world's largest totalitarian nation." Emphasis mine.It is my contention that the current administration is not only surrendering to China, but used the release of the Taliban's "Dream Team" as a smokescreen to divert media and public attention away from it. All one needs to ask "Cui bono?" For whom do the benefits accrue? To quote the middle Stanza of the Poem Cui Bono by Thomas Carlisle:
What is Life? A thawing iceboard On a sea with sunny shore; -- Gay we sail; it melts beneath us; We are sunk, and seen no more.That stanza pretty much sums up the Global Warming now Climate Change end times and the word Tipple in the title was not a mistype but a reference to the Coal Tipples that are being eradicated as a result of the "War on Coal." America is the Saudi Arabia of Coal;
Coal is one of America's most abundant domestically produced energy resources. America has more coal within its borders than any other country with over 260 billion tons of coal reserves. America's recoverable coal reserves has the energy equivalent of 900 billion barrels of oil, more than the Middle East's known oil reserves. Our abundant coal will provide American families and businesses with affordable electricity for decades to come. In fact, America's 260 billion tons of coal reserves would last 290 years at current consumption rates. Just as modern life in the United States is unimaginable without electricity, so is the notion that our nation could meet its growing energy needs without coal. Source Americas Power93% of the coal consumed in the US is used to generate Electricity. Source EIA, Monthly Energy Review. February 2014. 37% of Americas Electricity comes from Coal which costs less than half the price per BTU as Natural Gas. Emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and particulate matter (PM) from coal fueled power plants have been reduced by approximately 90% over the period 1970-2013. Source: EIA, Monthly Energy Review, February 2014, Table 7.1; Electric Power Monthly, March 2014; U.S. EPA, National Emission's Inventory, Air Pollutant Emissions Trends Data, 1970-2013. I would enjoin you to (re)read my article of last July as it contains additional background information on CO2 and the Presidents climate circus: Obama fiddling his climate change tune, while Rome burns Since the major pollutants have been 90% reduced the only way that the EPA can continue growing its bureaucratic leviathan outside the purview of "We the Peoples" representatives in Congress is by declaring CO2 a pollutant and now propose that the CO2 output by power plants needs to be reduced by 30% by 2030, and that Power Bills will increase by only 1 to 3 percent by 2020 and then decrease by 9% by 2020 ranks right up there with 'You can keep your Doktor comrade.' See the article on AZ central; HERE Also it is worth while reading "CO2 Fairytales in Global Warming" Gregory Young on American Thinker from which the following CO2 graph came: Let's do the math: natural gas is more than $5.00 Per MMBTU Coal is less than $2.50 per MMBTU, so for arguments sake let's say gas it twice the price. Natural gas produces ½ the amount of CO2 per KW/Hr as coal. So to reduce CO2 emissions by 30% by converting from coal to natural gas you would need to convert 60% of the Coal Plants to natural Gas. Without any supply and demand fluctuations in the price of Natural Gas The overall energy price increase for the formerly coal fired power is
"In the three years to September 2010, Chinese companies spent $20.96 billion on overseas coal-sector acquisitions, according to Dealogic." "Even if no official limits are introduced, China can't keep growing coal output much beyond another decade, analysts say. The mining sector is constrained by chronic infrastructure bottlenecks, especially road and rail, and those coal deposits that are easiest to mine have already been tapped. Experts are starting to predict when China's coal reserves will run out -- a nightmare scenario in a country where 70% of its energy is derived from coal."While it may on the surface be a travesty of monumental proportions for the current administration to pardon the "Taliban Dream Team" in favor of an army deserter and now the media spin doctors and propagandists are in overdrive. Perhaps there is a telling note in this article on The Hill :
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said White House advisers wanted Bergdahl's release to coincide with the timing of Obama's announcement to end combat operations in Iraq.I firmly believe that the timing and magnitude of the travesty of the Bergdahl trade was scripted by the same White House advisers to provide cover for the June 2, 2014 EPA final assault on coal fired power plants in the USA. The real question is Cui Bono? Clearly the destruction of the American Coal Industry and the continued stalling of the Keystone XL pipeline, have several benefactors. China who is rapaciously hungry for the energy resources to keep fueling its economy plus Saudi Arabia and Qatar who are eager to keep oil prices high! Is it any wonder that Saudi Arabia funds "Grass Roots" environmentalists? Read Why would OPEC give money to the American environmental left? Walter E. Williams In final analysis releasing 5 leaders of misogynistic, Buddha Bombing, adepts of socioeconomic Neanderthalism back to the task of reverting Afghanistan and the rest of the world into a stone age existence will have less effect at achieving those same goals than releasing the EPA Eco-Gestapo on America in general and in fact provides great cover for the latter to wreak their havoc below decks while media ship of fools fight for Bergdahl sound bites and revisit the Barbary Wars. It is becoming increasingly obvious that the current administration is at war with America, her people and her founding documents and principles and is more likely to be receiving their higher moral authority from whomever was ultimately behind the Georgia guide stones, or foreign interests in London, Doha, Riyadh or Beijing, than America's Divinely inspired Constitution. © Desmond McGrath
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J Desmond McGrath is a Canadian Engineer (BSc Petroleum Engineering-Honors Montana Tech) who has been living and working in Louisiana since 2002.