“You’ve heard of warning labels on things like beer and cigarettes, but how about automobiles? Well believe it or not, a British Parliament member, Collin Challen, recently proposed placing warning labels on cars to inform consumers of their impact on, you guessed it, global warming. According to the UK Guardian, such warnings might include highlighting the auto’s contribution to sea level rise, increasing deaths, species extinctions, food and water shortages, and heightened regional conflicts and wars. These warnings would vary depending on the emissions from each vehicle, according to the British MP, with the worst gas-guzzlers carrying the most severe warnings…
“Marc Morano, editor of CFACT’s Climate Depot website, appeared on Fox News with Neil Cavuto yesterday to discuss the recent spike in oil and gas prices in the wake of instability in the Middle East.
“Cavuto asked why, instead of getting oil from Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi and other Middle East countries, America doesn’t drill for more oil domestically. Morano replied, ‘The Congressional Research Service just did a study of natural gas, coal, and oil. We have more than the entire world, we have more than China, Canada, and Saudi Arabia combined, but 83 percent of our lands are inaccessible for oil drilling. And we have the Interior Department held in contempt of court for not allowing more permitting out in the Gulf Coast.’
“Marc pointed out that many environmentalists view high gas prices as a good thing: ‘Many people, including the environmentalists, are getting exactly what they want right now, and it is a situation they helped create by locking up 83 percent of our oil…'”
“What would life be like without cars? Well for residents of Vauban, Germany, living without cars is a reality – as the town has now become a showcase for the latest utopian vision of suburban planners. In Vauban, there is no more parallel parking or squeezing your car into a garage bursting with lawn equipment and bicycles. That’s because over 80 percent of those living in Vauban have no cars. Now city officials do give people the option of car ownership – if they don’t mind paying a $40,000 dollar permit fee…”
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More about Vauban:
http://www.vauban.de/info/abstract.html
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
So here we have a perfect example of why we should not vote for independents, or indeed minor parties. Of course the going on in our national government with our independents should be enough determent, but perhaps it’s not.
How do such nut cases get to be elected? Do they keep quiet about this rubbish until elected, or is the media so slack it’s not reported during elections?
The type of stupidity displayed by Mr Challen would be well buried before it could possibly get to be policy in major parties. It could get through however in some smaller parties, with a tendency to nuttiness in their make up.
Come to think of it, the nuttiness of Global Warming is alive & well in one of our majors, & has infected some members of the other lot. Add to that the crazies who want to close down vast areas of our country, so “the rivers can run free & natural”, & it’s hard to find much difference.
I guess this is the cross we have to bear when we are a member of a civilisation in decline as is ours.
Wouldn’t it be nice if all these nut cases, & their fellow traveling academics, were too busy working for their living, to find the time for these ratbag causes. The way we are going, perhaps that time is coming, & quite soon.
If the number of SUV’s I see entering and leaving schoo; areas before and after school is anything to go by I don’t think we will be giving them up just yet.
Anyone living in the Sydney area would be aware of the vandalism of Lord Mare Clover Moore. She is adding bike paths that nobody uses. One such path left a road with insufficient width to accommodate buses leaving many people virtually stranded. She also had vandalised some of Hyde Park for a bike path.
“Wouldn’t it be nice if all these nut cases, & their fellow traveling academics, were too busy working for their living, to find the time for these ratbag causes.” She is also a state MP.
Sorry Jennifer, I didnt realise that you were acting as a repeater station for Mark Morano.
Seriously,who does Morano think he ‘s fooling? If the US had anywhere near the amount of oil he implies in his mischievous comparisons with Saudi Arabia,we’d know about it because they would be extracting it. Please,the man is a menace to the communication of meaningful information.
I agree with Luke.
Jen doesn’t have a car – does she? When she lived in Brisbane she rode a push bike. Like Rog she only buys free range eggs.
Including Alaska, how much oil is there in the US? Anyone? Biotic and abiotic available for extraction?
Vauban, Germany.
That’s like ermm… Bell Park, Australia…. you know; a suburb of Geelong, Victoria. Well; almost. Vauban has a similar population but only one fifth of the area, for a population density of nearly 12,000 per km² (area 0.47 km² according to German Wonkypedia).
For comparison: Hong Kong has a population density of about 6400 per km²; about the same a central Sydney.
Increasing population density doesn’t make any sense in terms of a stable, sustainable society, but it is certainly one of the aims of those who think that they know better (vis Agenda 21). At what point of populations density would the thus-condemned folk be called “battery people”?
The English Wonkypedia entry starts: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauban,_Freiburg)
“Vauban is a new neighborhood of 5000 inhabitants and 600 jobs 4 km to the south of the town center in Freiburg, Germany. ”
Spot the lack of sustainability.
Some background: (http://streetswiki.wikispaces.com/Quartier+Vauban,+Freiburg,+Germany)
“The Planning Process
In 1993, an architecture student and a public transportation advocate met in a bar behind the university in Freiburg’s OldTown”