High gas prices hurt. So. . . . A starving man goes to a liberal for help. “I can see that you are suffering. You need food. I do not have anything for you to eat now, but we are working on a new, better kind of food. We may have some for you next year. If not then, we will surely have some a year or two after that, unless we run into unanticipated problems. It is almost certain that our new kind of food will be ready for you in ten years. Just be patient.”
Then, he whispers to another liberal, “He’s too fat, anyway.”
For fifty years, we have had nuclear reactors, the best source of cheap, clean energy that have ever been produced. They produce endless amounts of electricity for less than five cents/kwh. None are now under construction in the United States, even though energy shortages are making us all poorer.
We are fobbed off by fancies of windmills (cost of power generation, over $1.00/kwh), solar power (no one knows how much that will cost to build and maintain, but far more than nuclear), and the usual peripheral nonsense about tidal power, bio-fuels, and cold fusion.
The process of denying our neighbors’ basic needs by saying there’s something wrong with the current ways to take care of them is the high point of selfishness. Vast lies are necessary, and they must believed. The same people who would deny bread to the hungry deny power to those who are desperate for it. There is an evil spirit at work in their minds. It will destroy their own souls, as well, taking them to a punishment far greater than the pain their selfishness causes their neighbors.
