{"id":895,"date":"2009-11-07T08:20:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T16:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=895"},"modified":"2009-11-07T08:20:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T16:20:32","slug":"trojans-or-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/07\/trojans-or-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Trojans or bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wonder what &#8220;cap and trade&#8221; is all about? Or if it will actually spare us from our species&#8217; dogged attempt to blow up the planet? One way to figure it is this &#8211; 7 billion techno-monkeys ain&#8217;t going to solve climate shift with a scheme that allows industrial bozos to buy a few carbon credits. The net result will always tend towards the old paradigm with a new price tag.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the recent squabble over a pair of EPA wonks who had this to say in the <em>Washington Post<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/10\/30\/AR2009103002988.html\">&#8220;The biggest obstacle to this revolution is that uncontrolled fossil fuel energy remains much cheaper than clean energy. Cap-and-trade alone will not create confidence that clean energy will become profitable within a known time frame and so will not ignite the huge shift in investment needed to begin the clean-energy revolution.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So far, the dynamic duo has made a bunch of noise, including to your representatives. They favor carbon fees and other assorted fun tactics to reverse global warming. But, like 99.99% of the carbon freaks wandering the halls of punditry, the argument remains mired in techno-mojo.<\/p>\n<p>The best technology ever invented (after the hot shower) is made of latex and retards overpopulation.<\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wonder what &#8220;cap and trade&#8221; is all about? Or if it will actually spare us from our species&#8217; dogged attempt to blow up the planet? One way to figure it is this &#8211; 7 billion techno-monkeys ain&#8217;t going to solve climate shift with a scheme that allows industrial bozos to buy a few carbon credits. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}