Harry Reid Watch: Killing Las Vegas
Nevada’s own Harry Reid has become a YouTube sensation for continually combining his gloomy disposition with rhetoric that makes even his most partisan supporters cringe.
His latest hilarious monologue came a few days ago on the Fox Business channel when, in trying to defend the exorbitant costs (and federal subsidies) of renewable power, he asserted that money is overrated in debating the country’s energy policy.
“Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world,” Sen. Reid blurted out between pregnant pauses. “We’ve got to stop using fossil fuels.”
Yes, the resources that not only drive the world’s economy and rising standard of living, but make life and prosperity possible in his political base of Las Vegas, are “ruining our country” and “ruining our world.”
And, the Journal points out the hypocrisy of Reid whose political base of support in Nevada is dependent upon fossil fuel to transport visitors to “Sin City” and to fuel the electricity generators for air conditioning systems that keep Las Vegas bearable in 115 degree summers.
Last year the U.S. Senate Majority Leader said the Iraq War was lost. He was wrong then as he is now – unless he proposes giving Las Vegas back to the desert?
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8 Comments
warming lubricant
While it is true about his political base being dependant upon fossil fuels, I still think he has a larger point. I eman who’s not dependant on fossil fuels? I think the main point is to end the dependancy so we dont have to rely upon it.
Christian
Yes yes, everybody is thinking of stop using fossil energy and politicians are nothing better than talking.
Until the industry people would stop producing car, machine that use fossil energy, nothing could be changed. Engineer should be having enough technology to have fossil energy replace with other kind of energy. The matter now is the money. Nobody is willing to throw the first buck to start the era without fossil energy.
Macy
Yeah no one will take that big risk I assume.
Lighting Fixtures
We are far to dependent on oil to make a change.
~Jeff
male enhancers
You said it though. Until we get off gas cars and such, no energy improvements are going to happen. We are just going to keep on moving and let the people of the future deal with it when it gets here. Sound fair?
Tattoos
I agree, no energy improvements are going to happen over night, it is going to take at least a generation or 10 before we see any changes made.
Julie Montero
Yeah no one will take that big risk I assume.
J Teo
If I were you I will not 🙂