Of Blushing Pharoahs

clipped from planetgore.nationalreview.com This is the thinking of a child — or the rhetoric of a demagogue, take your pick. Electric supply systems have to meet market tests — consumer satisfaction and investor confidence. There was no market test for the Apollo Project, because its goal was not commercial but geopolitical — to beat the Soviets in the Cold War space race. Gore might as well say that if we can put a man on the moon, then we can also cure cancer, eradicate poverty, and end war — all in ten years. Planet Gore readers owe Al Gore a big thank you. The scale of Gore’s project would make even the Pharoahs blush, and executing his plan would require a literal Energy Czar. Never before has the global warming movement’s ambition to control and dictate and commander been so prominently on display. Never before has the movement’s flight from reality been more open to public view.