{"id":237349,"date":"2017-06-16T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=237349"},"modified":"2017-06-19T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T20:34:14","slug":"did-green-energy-rules-cause-london-inferno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/06\/16\/did-green-energy-rules-cause-london-inferno\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Green Energy Rules Fuel the London Inferno?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This story I just saw, and I wanted to bring it to your attention. It\u2019s from The Daily Caller. The headline: “Deadly London Tower Fire Fueled By ‘Green Energy\u2019 Rules — London\u2019s Grenfell Tower was made worse by government ‘green energy requirements\u2019 that allowed fire to rapidly engulf the building Wednesday, leaving at least 17 people dead and scores more wounded or missing.<\/p>\n

\"\"“While it\u2019s unknown what sparked the fire, experts say that the cladding, or exterior insulation, created a chimney effect through which the fire rapidly spread upwards. The cladding was added to Grenfell\u2019s exterior in 2015 as part of a $12.8 million retrofit. ‘I have never seen a fire that has engulfed an entire building like this in a career of more than 30 years,\u2019 Matt Wrack, who heads the Fire Brigades Union, told The Telegraph. ‘It could be that this is the quest for sustainability trumping other concerns,\u2019 echoed Dr. Jim Glockling of the Fire Protection Association. ‘There has been an emerging body of evidence surrounding some of the materials being used and now we have an appalling demonstration of what can happen,\u2019 Glockling said.”<\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t that be — what, ironic — that the green crowd got in there and demanded a retrofit of this building to enforce sustainable green energy requirements, and the requirements ended up turning the whole building into a tinderbox? Green energy rules might have led to it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m surprised this story even got out. Normally the Drive-Bys in the U.K. would want to suppress anything anybody out there happens to be saying about something like this. But, you know, it\u2019s true, if you look in many areas where green, sustainable energy is being employed, like windmills are killing birds left and right and causing havoc in communities, and they\u2019re not generating much power, and it\u2019s a disaster.<\/p>\n

The solar industry is an absolute disaster. The number of panels that you need to create so little electricity that you can\u2019t really effectively run anything on them. If you have a cloudy day you\u2019re sunk. And every one of these industries is wildly subsidized. They couldn\u2019t make it on their own. There simply isn\u2019t a market for these new sustainable green energy things, wind and solar. By that, I mean there\u2019s no way to make a profit.<\/p>\n

Even Elon Musk. Elon Musk has been subsidized to over $4 billion. I don\u2019t know if the young tech crowd even knows it, but Elon Musk did not even found Tesla. Did you know that? You didn\u2019t know that? No. He bought Tesla from its original founders. No, it\u2019s not a big deal. I\u2019m just pointing it out. It\u2019s just a little known fact. But the point is even Musk has gotten over $4 billion in subsidies in order to make this electric car.<\/p>\n

I hear people raving — Tim Cook at Apple the other day was somewhere and he was raving. Oh, Apple\u2019s new product. Apple is trying to design software for an autonomous car, self-driving car. Cook announced that in an interview at Bloomberg. And let me tell you something as an aside. If Apple is developing the software and the mechanisms for a self-driving car, then you can bet Apple is also developing a car.<\/p>\n

The one thing Apple does not do is build software for other people\u2019s stuff. And this is an edict going all the way back to Steve Jobs. They\u2019re gonna do an iPhone, they\u2019re gonna own it all. They\u2019re gonna own the hardware. They\u2019re gonna own the software and they\u2019re gonna eventually own as much in it as they can, and they are in the process of having their own chip division. The thing is Apple never writes software for somebody else\u2019s hardware.<\/p>\n

So if they\u2019re building a system for a self-driving car then, by definition, Apple\u2019s developing their own car as well. Where are they gonna test it? But, anyway, when he was doing this, he was talking about (paraphrasing), “Isn\u2019t it such a pleasure to get in your electric car and never have to stop at a gas station. Never have to stop at a filling station. You get in your electric car and you drive down the road and every time you pass a gas station, you just wave at \u2019em knowing you never have to stop.”<\/p>\n

\"\"Well, I mean, I guess that\u2019s cool. But you do have to find some place to park your car for a number of hours to charge it up. The thing that I don\u2019t get about the electric car — I actually get it. I just think it\u2019s interesting to point out. Where do they think the batteries in these cars get their juice? When they plug those cars in to recharge the batteries, where\u2019s the juice coming from? Ninety-nine out of a hundred places it\u2019s coming from a coal-fired power plant.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re all opposed to coal. They\u2019re opposed to coal because it\u2019s dirty and it\u2019s filthy and it pollutes and it\u2019s a dark color. You don\u2019t want it on your clothes, it\u2019s icky. We don\u2019t like coal, it\u2019s horrible. And yet they couldn\u2019t drive their electric cars without coal-fired power plants. They tell themselves they are somehow saving energy and they are developing renewable, clean energy, and yet it requires coal, clean coal or otherwise, in order to fire up the batteries in their cars so they can drive past gas stations and wave when they go by.<\/p>\n

How do you rationalize that? How do you on one hand talk of how coal is yesterday\u2019s news, you hate it, you despise it, it\u2019s dirty, it\u2019s filthy, and then you go out and design a revolutionary product that cannot operate without it? And then you never mention coal and you never mention conventional electricity. You just talk about your brand-new battery tech, which is basically charging in capacity, but there is no alternative way to get juice onto a battery that does not use a massive supply of electricity, which still in this country is created mostly by coal-fired power plants. I think it is gigantic hypocrisy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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