Although electric cars are in greater use today, it's because the government is subsidizing it (with out tax money). The owner of Chevy, I believe, said he was losing money by selling the Volt at the price it sells it at, but the government makes up the difference. It's not a surge of electric cars, it's forced green technology.
The US subsidies for conventional energy (oil, gas & coal) are among the highest in the OECD. The US protection of property rights is among the lowest in the OECD.
There is also the simple truth that matters of national security can not simply be reduced to the price per kWh or gallon of gas.
The US is a nation of slaves indoctrinated to be unable to declare individual & local energy independence. Just follow the corporate & political leaders like lemmings and don't give a shit about liberty.
THIS VIDEO IS ENGRAGING. HOW CAN THEY NOT MENTION NUCLEAR ENERGY IN THIS ENTIRE VIDEO. LONG TERM INVESTMENTS IN NUCLEAR ENERGY COULD RESULT IN MASSIVE ENERGY SURPLUSES.
Through green technology is not near where it needs to be to replace oil I heard no statement on this program that addressed the REAL issue. I have scanned the comments and have seen alot of anti-liberal comments and defenses, yet the underlying problem never was addressed. Oil is finite. There are plenty of math saying we are near peak of attainable oil or even past it already. No matter how much drilling improves, fossil fuels are on the decline, or will be soon. We need alternative sourcesnow
We will get an alternative source once the market demands it.
As soon as oil resources run low hundreds of thousands of scientists, companies, inventors, and even average people, will start looking for a new source of energy. Not because Al Gore frightened them into it, or the government forced them into it, but out the profit motive.
Don't worry about it. Humans can do truly amazing things when given the space and the freedom they need. Finding a replacement to oil won't be hard.
@Romeowasbleeding1 Oil is nearly at $5 a gallon now. The minimum wage is 7.50 I believe. What will it take to curb the market in the direction of an alternative. Oil resources HAVE RUN LOW. We are proceeding into the era where oil is scarce. With the current infrastructure, it will take drastic changes NOW to curb the ensuing crisis.
Don't worry about it? Humans do truly amazing things given the space and freedom they need Guess what? We are constantly losing space and freedom.
@Romeowasbleeding1 People also have the tendency to eat each other when they are really hungry (see 'the starving time' in the colony of Jamestown). These high oil prices effect more than the cost of driving. It effects the price of everything. Plastic, Food, Electronics, Everything. If you were to draw a trend line of population growth and a trend line of oil consumption, you will see them almost matching. What do you think will happen when it declines? It is something to worry about.
Green fantasies survive on the sucker born every minute principle. It's a religion among the do-gooder crowd. And there is no doubt that do-gooders are as scientifically ignorant as they are horrifically dangerous.
The cost of stopping fossil fuel use is high. The economy could fall back into the dark ages. Fossil fuels are limited. We will run out sooner or later. If we don't stop using them up very soon, If we don't leave most of the remainder where it is in the ground, then we will shortly lose the only intelligent life in the universe forever.
@Megabyxos Exactly correct. Prez Jimmy Carter created an energy crisis by trying tactics similar to the one's being pursued today (ex. Cap & Trade). He is also responsible for the 55mph speed limit nuisance because it was thought to be a more "fuel efficient" speed. Thirty years later, and with other countries consuming high levels of fuel (ex. China and India), and we are still in good shape. The market will adjust to scarcity when it comes. The government never adjusts well to ANYTHING.
@totustuus11 You and Megabyxos are correct. Yes they say now we have 30 years of oil left? That is the single biggest lie ever stated by the left. I know oil. I work with people who own oil companies. When you say that to them? They laugh. Their response to that is, if the world used twice the amount of oil that is being consumed now? The oil will flow til the sun burns the Earth. It is a lie the left uses. Nothing new there tho as we all well know
Yep, Mathematicians, Physicists, Engineers, etc. can solve these problems (nuclear energy), but they're all moving to Asia where the economy isn't being bled dry!
All this is a huge scam, and evidence points to it, not ecofreak nonsense believed by starry-eyed leftist bozos.
This is all about making Al Gore and his friends hyper rich. If the Cap n' Trade charade is implemented, what the consumer's sky high energy prices would fund is carbon credit offsets traded through Al Gore's own company, Generation Investment Management, incorporated in a tax heaven (Isle of Mann), and carbon credits would become the most profitable tradable good on the planet.
This is where i actually diverge from the rest of the Classical liberals. Paying a little bit more to preserve the environment is OK by me. I would put it at the same level of importance as Security/Defense.
@Runesocesius Well you dont diverge that much from the center. Most parties across europe with classical liberal roots have also adopted an enviromentalist programs.
Personally I accept what seems to be the scientific consensus, but I'm quite sympathetic to the copenhagen consensus arguments.
@Sondre7 The center? The European Center? What Europe do you live in. Classical Liberal parties in Europe are scarce and are far more off center than the Libertarian party regarding the US.
@Runesocesius That is fine as long as you want to pay more for your own energy. It may even be laudable. Just don't force your fellow man to do the same. That would be contemptible.
I would applaud replacing all of the power hungry, carbon exhaling politicians with environmentally friendly free choice.
Denmark uses massive amounts of natural gas. All home heating is natural gas. Cities generate their own electricity using NG, the excess heat is used in government buildings and farms, excess CO2 is used to boost green house crop out put by 30%. Total efficiency is effectively 110%. In Denmark the decisions on these things are made a a local level with out much interference.
@espada9 Spain does not have a 20% unemployment rate because of its green economy. Look at Sweden. They have the most green economy in the world and they have handled the crisis more efficiently than any other country. And by the way, the fact that so many Americans are opposed to green technologies is only a further sign that the US has seen its best days and will decline as a superpower in the near future.
@espada9 You seemed to think that Spain's high unemployment rate has some kind of connection to the fact that its economy is green. That simply is wrong.
@dudz40: Green energy is 120 percent more expensive, simply due to the extra costs of solar and wind, and the evolution of the market is not going to bring down those costs any time soon.
Each "green job" comes at the expense of 2.2 traditional jobs.
@dudz40 We aren't opposed to green tech. We are opposed to fail tech.
We are a country of 300 million + people. Green tech doesn't produce nearly enough energy to sustain us. When green tech starts working we'll start using it.
@lockdown260 Yep, you guys should stop failing all the time. Seriously, what are you doing to your country? You're failing in Iraq, your population is so fucking obese, and you haven't even managed to provide healthcare for all your citizens? Pathetic.
@dudz40 Since when is it the government's job to take care of people in a free country? Its bad enough we have food stamps, welfare, medicare, medicaid, social security, etc. and now there are Euro-fags lecturing us about giving "free" insurance to people who aren't poor enough to be covered by medicare. America is not Sweden - we would rather live our own lives than suck off our wealthy neighbors via gov't theft (well, some of us at least). And as for Iraq we are doing better than you would.
@dudz40 Assuming that anything you said is true, what does that have to do with green tech supposedly being better than what we are using now? Haven't you any logic behind your position or perhaps you are just regurgitating worthless rhetoric?
If you watched the news you would know that we won Iraq (unless saddam came back from the dead and into power again), Socialized heath BS passed and that only part of our population is obese. But you aren't interested with the truth are you?
@dudz40 "so many Americans are opposed to green technologies" - That's an over-generalization, and a bit of a stupid thing to say. Sorry. As an American - as a human being - I am not opposed to any technology per se. What I am opposed to is being forced to use a more expensive technology over a cheaper technology (which will benefit politically connected and fashionable businesses); in fact, I oppose being forced to use anything at all by the force of government.
@dudz40 Spain's forced switch to so-called "green" jobs was an economic disaster. Just because Sweden is able to support it with a much smaller population, more efficient government, better educated society, and better natural resources is irrelevant.
@strongbadXCP - Sweden is collapsing. That's a lie perpetrated by the Left. The Swedes, like the rest of Europe, is using Muslim Immigrants to keep their socialist programs running. The Muslim Immigrants don't get an option for citizenship or are they allowed to get access to the programs, until recently...
Leftist Politicians are granting immigrants (illegal or otherwise) access to social programs. They're collapsing the system and bringing in violent immigrants.
@Thill029: I think you missed the sarcasm; I’m in favor of a FREE MARKET deciding what energy we use.
Because we are (or were) a constitutional Republic, a nation of laws there should be some basic environmental laws but not at the expense of business or personal liberty.
Although electric cars are in greater use today, it's because the government is subsidizing it (with out tax money). The owner of Chevy, I believe, said he was losing money by selling the Volt at the price it sells it at, but the government makes up the difference. It's not a surge of electric cars, it's forced green technology.
ElJefer 2 months ago
Solyndra
ElJefer 2 months ago
The US subsidies for conventional energy (oil, gas & coal) are among the highest in the OECD. The US protection of property rights is among the lowest in the OECD.
There is also the simple truth that matters of national security can not simply be reduced to the price per kWh or gallon of gas.
The US is a nation of slaves indoctrinated to be unable to declare individual & local energy independence. Just follow the corporate & political leaders like lemmings and don't give a shit about liberty.
Zoidode 3 months ago
Well, they could start by removing every single subsidy for everything. For all oil and coal companies.
But dont giver any subsidiez for any other energy source.
Terje1337 4 months ago
One name - Nikola Tesla
Lisztman88 6 months ago
Jim Henson hit the nail on the head way back when.
darth375 6 months ago
trees and plants use CO2 for food
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slanderousndgs 1 year ago
THIS VIDEO IS ENGRAGING. HOW CAN THEY NOT MENTION NUCLEAR ENERGY IN THIS ENTIRE VIDEO. LONG TERM INVESTMENTS IN NUCLEAR ENERGY COULD RESULT IN MASSIVE ENERGY SURPLUSES.
Kelmanza 1 year ago
@Kelmanza cuz there talking about green jobs and green energy, not the benefits of nuclear energy
Freedom21stCenturi 1 year ago
@Kelmanza he did mention nuclear energy.
mixmastermeeks 1 year ago
John Stossel is a fucking idiot...
bluemunlight 1 year ago
@bluemunlight Brilliant rebuttal for a moron. It must suck to be so mentally disabled.
fzqlcs 1 year ago
@fzqlcs If you are really want to know than you should ask your mama. I'm sure she can tell you, since is obvious she gave birth to one.
bluemunlight 1 year ago
Through green technology is not near where it needs to be to replace oil I heard no statement on this program that addressed the REAL issue. I have scanned the comments and have seen alot of anti-liberal comments and defenses, yet the underlying problem never was addressed. Oil is finite. There are plenty of math saying we are near peak of attainable oil or even past it already. No matter how much drilling improves, fossil fuels are on the decline, or will be soon. We need alternative sourcesnow
vipeream 1 year ago
@vipeream
We will get an alternative source once the market demands it.
As soon as oil resources run low hundreds of thousands of scientists, companies, inventors, and even average people, will start looking for a new source of energy. Not because Al Gore frightened them into it, or the government forced them into it, but out the profit motive.
Don't worry about it. Humans can do truly amazing things when given the space and the freedom they need. Finding a replacement to oil won't be hard.
Romeowasbleeding1 8 months ago in playlist John Stossel - On Liberty
@Romeowasbleeding1 Oil is nearly at $5 a gallon now. The minimum wage is 7.50 I believe. What will it take to curb the market in the direction of an alternative. Oil resources HAVE RUN LOW. We are proceeding into the era where oil is scarce. With the current infrastructure, it will take drastic changes NOW to curb the ensuing crisis.
Don't worry about it? Humans do truly amazing things given the space and freedom they need Guess what? We are constantly losing space and freedom.
stewscum 8 months ago
@Romeowasbleeding1 People also have the tendency to eat each other when they are really hungry (see 'the starving time' in the colony of Jamestown). These high oil prices effect more than the cost of driving. It effects the price of everything. Plastic, Food, Electronics, Everything. If you were to draw a trend line of population growth and a trend line of oil consumption, you will see them almost matching. What do you think will happen when it declines? It is something to worry about.
stewscum 8 months ago
I want to be Stossel when I grow up.
darkwhitedirewolf 1 year ago
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Uranium is carbon-free. So is plutonium and thorium.
BeefotronX 1 year ago
Uranium is carbon-free. So is plutonium and thorium.
BeefotronX 1 year ago
Liberty Pen is one of the best YT channels out there thx!
BlackFencePatriot 1 year ago
Green fantasies survive on the sucker born every minute principle. It's a religion among the do-gooder crowd. And there is no doubt that do-gooders are as scientifically ignorant as they are horrifically dangerous.
RatkoUSA 1 year ago 15
@RatkoUSA Check out a vid from machosauceproductions about how environmentalism is the new pagan religion.
darth375 6 months ago
@RatkoUSA Nailed it
Onmetube 5 months ago
Gore is a fraud, he'll never debate.
RatkoUSA 1 year ago 11
The cost of stopping fossil fuel use is high. The economy could fall back into the dark ages. Fossil fuels are limited. We will run out sooner or later. If we don't stop using them up very soon, If we don't leave most of the remainder where it is in the ground, then we will shortly lose the only intelligent life in the universe forever.
jffryh 1 year ago
@jffryh We've been on our last 20 years of oil for the last 70 years.
Megabyxos 1 year ago
@Megabyxos
And we will be for the next 200 years (at least) as well. ;-)
(barring a big tech leap)
.
kmg501 1 year ago
@Megabyxos Exactly correct. Prez Jimmy Carter created an energy crisis by trying tactics similar to the one's being pursued today (ex. Cap & Trade). He is also responsible for the 55mph speed limit nuisance because it was thought to be a more "fuel efficient" speed. Thirty years later, and with other countries consuming high levels of fuel (ex. China and India), and we are still in good shape. The market will adjust to scarcity when it comes. The government never adjusts well to ANYTHING.
totustuus11 1 year ago
@totustuus11 You and Megabyxos are correct. Yes they say now we have 30 years of oil left? That is the single biggest lie ever stated by the left. I know oil. I work with people who own oil companies. When you say that to them? They laugh. Their response to that is, if the world used twice the amount of oil that is being consumed now? The oil will flow til the sun burns the Earth. It is a lie the left uses. Nothing new there tho as we all well know
SuperGuitarman69 1 year ago
Yep, Mathematicians, Physicists, Engineers, etc. can solve these problems (nuclear energy), but they're all moving to Asia where the economy isn't being bled dry!
selfrealizedexile 1 year ago
All this is a huge scam, and evidence points to it, not ecofreak nonsense believed by starry-eyed leftist bozos.
This is all about making Al Gore and his friends hyper rich. If the Cap n' Trade charade is implemented, what the consumer's sky high energy prices would fund is carbon credit offsets traded through Al Gore's own company, Generation Investment Management, incorporated in a tax heaven (Isle of Mann), and carbon credits would become the most profitable tradable good on the planet.
USA4July1776 1 year ago
I realize fox business is still a startup channel and dont got a big viewerbase, but how many viewers does stossel have?
Sondre7 1 year ago
This is where i actually diverge from the rest of the Classical liberals. Paying a little bit more to preserve the environment is OK by me. I would put it at the same level of importance as Security/Defense.
Runesocesius 1 year ago
@Runesocesius Well you dont diverge that much from the center. Most parties across europe with classical liberal roots have also adopted an enviromentalist programs.
Personally I accept what seems to be the scientific consensus, but I'm quite sympathetic to the copenhagen consensus arguments.
Sondre7 1 year ago
@Sondre7 The center? The European Center? What Europe do you live in. Classical Liberal parties in Europe are scarce and are far more off center than the Libertarian party regarding the US.
Runesocesius 1 year ago
@Runesocesius That is fine as long as you want to pay more for your own energy. It may even be laudable. Just don't force your fellow man to do the same. That would be contemptible.
fzqlcs 1 year ago
@fzqlcs I know this argument. I use it all the time. It's easy to reply to, and it's easy get into a circular argument.
Would could argue it's comtemtible to force others to pay for others security.
Runesocesius 1 year ago
Thomas Edison was a crackpot. Nikola Tesla could have given us real power., but Edison and J.P. Morgan ruined his life.
Cstrife234 1 year ago
When financially comfortable people applaud when they don't really know why, poor and productive people, watch your pocket books and your freedom.
AshillaBeige 1 year ago
I would applaud replacing all of the power hungry, carbon exhaling politicians with environmentally friendly free choice.
Denmark uses massive amounts of natural gas. All home heating is natural gas. Cities generate their own electricity using NG, the excess heat is used in government buildings and farms, excess CO2 is used to boost green house crop out put by 30%. Total efficiency is effectively 110%. In Denmark the decisions on these things are made a a local level with out much interference.
XCritonX 1 year ago
John Stossel wakes the ignorant masses up from ignorance once more.
TheBrotherMouzone 1 year ago
A "green economy" has worked out so well for Spain, they have 20 unemployment!
Come on people we're halfway there! We can do it!
espada9 1 year ago 2
@espada9 Spain does not have a 20% unemployment rate because of its green economy. Look at Sweden. They have the most green economy in the world and they have handled the crisis more efficiently than any other country. And by the way, the fact that so many Americans are opposed to green technologies is only a further sign that the US has seen its best days and will decline as a superpower in the near future.
dudz40 1 year ago
@dudz40: So one size fits all? What works for Sweden will work for Spain, the USA, etc the same way? There are NO differences? No variables?
Yawn....................
espada9 1 year ago
@espada9 You seemed to think that Spain's high unemployment rate has some kind of connection to the fact that its economy is green. That simply is wrong.
dudz40 1 year ago
@dudz40: Green energy is 120 percent more expensive, simply due to the extra costs of solar and wind, and the evolution of the market is not going to bring down those costs any time soon.
Each "green job" comes at the expense of 2.2 traditional jobs.
espada9 1 year ago 2
@dudz40 We aren't opposed to green tech. We are opposed to fail tech.
We are a country of 300 million + people. Green tech doesn't produce nearly enough energy to sustain us. When green tech starts working we'll start using it.
lockdown260 1 year ago
@lockdown260 Yep, you guys should stop failing all the time. Seriously, what are you doing to your country? You're failing in Iraq, your population is so fucking obese, and you haven't even managed to provide healthcare for all your citizens? Pathetic.
dudz40 1 year ago
@dudz40 Since when is it the government's job to take care of people in a free country? Its bad enough we have food stamps, welfare, medicare, medicaid, social security, etc. and now there are Euro-fags lecturing us about giving "free" insurance to people who aren't poor enough to be covered by medicare. America is not Sweden - we would rather live our own lives than suck off our wealthy neighbors via gov't theft (well, some of us at least). And as for Iraq we are doing better than you would.
strongbadXCP 1 year ago
@dudz40 Assuming that anything you said is true, what does that have to do with green tech supposedly being better than what we are using now? Haven't you any logic behind your position or perhaps you are just regurgitating worthless rhetoric?
If you watched the news you would know that we won Iraq (unless saddam came back from the dead and into power again), Socialized heath BS passed and that only part of our population is obese. But you aren't interested with the truth are you?
lockdown260 1 year ago
@dudz40 "Look at Sweden. They have the most green economy in the world" - The most green economy in the world by what measure?
TheLegalImmigrant05 1 year ago
@dudz40 "so many Americans are opposed to green technologies" - That's an over-generalization, and a bit of a stupid thing to say. Sorry. As an American - as a human being - I am not opposed to any technology per se. What I am opposed to is being forced to use a more expensive technology over a cheaper technology (which will benefit politically connected and fashionable businesses); in fact, I oppose being forced to use anything at all by the force of government.
TheLegalImmigrant05 1 year ago 3
@dudz40 Spain's forced switch to so-called "green" jobs was an economic disaster. Just because Sweden is able to support it with a much smaller population, more efficient government, better educated society, and better natural resources is irrelevant.
strongbadXCP 1 year ago
@strongbadXCP - Sweden is collapsing. That's a lie perpetrated by the Left. The Swedes, like the rest of Europe, is using Muslim Immigrants to keep their socialist programs running. The Muslim Immigrants don't get an option for citizenship or are they allowed to get access to the programs, until recently...
Leftist Politicians are granting immigrants (illegal or otherwise) access to social programs. They're collapsing the system and bringing in violent immigrants.
Search on Malmo Sweden
thomaserossi 1 year ago
@espada9
It's not the responsibility of government to decide what sort of energy we use. End of story.
Thill029 1 year ago
@Thill029 I agree. We shoud be able to have nuclear reactors in our backyard if that's the kind of energy we want to use.
dudz40 1 year ago
@dudz40
Very witty... obviously if it poses a threat to the people around, the government has the right ot step in. But that's not the issue.
Thill029 1 year ago
@Thill029: I think you missed the sarcasm; I’m in favor of a FREE MARKET deciding what energy we use.
Because we are (or were) a constitutional Republic, a nation of laws there should be some basic environmental laws but not at the expense of business or personal liberty.
Where are the nuke plants????
espada9 1 year ago
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Anniversary of cheating on your wife?
bajoverga 1 year ago
Happy Anniversary??? Guess he's not busy with that anymore...
1OriginalQueen 1 year ago