Sunday, February 4, 2018

IT TAKES AGES TO ROW PAPERS FROM LONDON TO HOUSTON

Former  Rick  Perry  aide  Bill Peacock,  now Vice  President  of  Research  at  the  Texas Public Policy  Foundation  should  try  to read The London Times  more  often  than  once every  150 years:

We have such short memories.
Relating to today’s debate about fossil fuels versus renewable fuels, here is what The Times of London said about a similar debate over coal versus renewables:
Coal is everything to us. Without coal, our factories will become idle, our foundries and workshops be still as the grave; the locomotive will rust in the shed, and the rail be buried in the weeds. Our streets will be dark, our houses uninhabitable. Our rivers will forget the paddlewheel, and we shall again be separated by days from France, by months for the United States. The post will lengthen its periods and protract its dates. A thousand special arts and manufacturers, one by one, then in a crowd, will fly the empty soil, as boon companions are said to disappear when the cask is dry.
 People forget that... The truth is that today’s attacks on fossil fuels and the push for subsidies for renewable fuels are tantamount to asking for a return to the days described by The Times.

First coal-free day in Britain since 1880s