Modern discourse is based upon the feminization of American society. We
don't argue the logic of global warming, we decide based upon how the
subject makes us feel. So we drive to the mall in our Expeditions to
protest Big Oil and the lack of wind turbines. Oh, wind turbines -- they
will interfere with our view when we go sailing. The turbines might kill
birds, and that makes us feel sad. Nuclear power is out because we don't
understand it and that little symbol makes us feel scared. No matter that
Ontario Hydro should really be called Ontario Nuclear, and the French -- the
French! -- derive the bulk of their electricty from nuclear power.

Hard, cold reason has all but disappeared as a controlling factor in
American life. As I see it, there is no practical replacement for oil.
Even if we stop burning it, we will still need it (or its cousin, natural
gas) for plastics, pharmaceuticals and everything else the petrochemical
industry provides us. We won't be able to stop burning oil for at least 3
or 4 decades.

To me, the global warming argument is entirely immaterial. We need to
reduce our carbon emissions not because we are making the earth warmer
(which we're not) but as a matter of national security. We must develop our
own oil as quickly and as thoroughly as possible, and at the same time
develop a replacement for burning oil for personal transportation. We must
reduce the insane outflow of our national wealth to the same people who have
sworn to kill us.

And I mean things that are real, not "switch to solar power" or "build
more wind mills" -- which are nice, warm-fuzzy things to do that
(unfortunately) have a negligible impact on our energy production needs.
No matter how much everyone wishes for it, we're not going to escape our
need for big-box power plants that run on fossil or nuclear fuels -- at
least not unless we're willing to largely dismantle modern society.