Why eco-leftists are suddenly
turning on Michael Moore
by
Steven W. Mosher
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
5/3/2020 11:45:54 AM
I pay as little attention to Michael Moore as humanly possible. But when his latest documentary opened on Earth Day to attacks from fellow leftists, including calls for censorship, it got my attention.
After all, one of my favorite scenes in “Lord of the Rings” is watching the orcs fight among themselves.
So I grabbed a bowl of popcorn and sat down to watch “Planet of the Humans.”
Director Moore’s latest documentary starts with electric cars, the vehicle of choice for the environmentally conscious. As GM proudly unveils its battery-powered Volt, his narrator innocently asks the executive in charge where the electricity to recharge it comes from.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
EQKimball 5/3/2020 12:00:20 PM (No. 399417)
The "green" in the Green New Deal has always been about the same thing: Green as in greenbacks for the elite and their comrades. Buy stock in a solar farm company and then demand taxpayer subsidies for it because the company could not possibly make it on its own. Such a deal. Enough to make ordinary crooks green with envy.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 5/3/2020 12:07:10 PM (No. 399423)
The usual response from the left.....censorship. Never, never let anyone disagree with them. Their answer is to censor and/or financially ruin anyone who disagrees with them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
hershey 5/3/2020 12:16:47 PM (No. 399443)
Ah, liberals eating their own...loving it..and there is plenty to feast on for them....ha
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 5/3/2020 12:30:15 PM (No. 399463)
Those who hang around here have heard these truths for years. Windmills and solar panels are expensive, heavily subsidized, entirely uneconomic jokes which are enriching a few companies who build them, but solving exactly nothing in the long term.
Because of improved extraction methods, the cost of producing natural gas has dropped, and because NG is difficult and very expensive (monetarily and energy-wise) to ship overseas, the price here is lower than coal, so it is replacing coal in many power plants. That has little or nothing to do with anything other than lower costs. At some point, unless we manage to get away from the lunatics who prevent us from properly using nuclear power due to irrational fear, we'll be back to using our coal to power things, it's going nowhere and is an abundant energy source in this country.
Until we get a "Mr. Fusion" like on the movie "Back to the Future, Part II" (although it won't use banana skins and beer cans for fuel), we'll be using conventional oil, coal and natural gas for most of our energy needs. "Alternate energy" is unaffordable, and will eventually be abandoned due to cost and ineffectiveness.
Electric cars have been a silly techno side show for over a century, and will remain so. Short range, expensive, slow to recharge - and powered mostly by conventional fuels. Electric cars are a stunt, a carnival act. Yes, you can do it, by why would you?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/3/2020 1:14:01 PM (No. 399516)
Finally. Mr. Moore has been asking for it and is now finally getting the disrespect he deserves. The talking money blimp is on the loose.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 5/3/2020 1:24:14 PM (No. 399528)
May he reap the whirlwind.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/3/2020 1:40:21 PM (No. 399545)
Because they grew up picking on the fat kid with the dumb glasses.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 5/3/2020 2:10:39 PM (No. 399583)
We repeat this with the Left over and over again with different topics. It always comes out the same because the same deeply flawed people are involved. They take a mostly functional system and claim that 5% deficiency requires we scrap the whole thing and do something that they champion that bring them power and money. They launch personal attacks on anyone who resists them. When it is implemented, it fails, as was predicted by the people that opposed it. They then said it WILL work if we spend more money and let them tighten their grip on our throats. It still fails. They start to slowly back away from it so what when it completely collapses they are shocked, SHOCKED I tell you that "someone" screwed things up so badly. Then it is on to the next scheme.
WHEN will we demand that these people PROVE themselves before buying into their plans? WHEN will we label them as the LIARS and FOOLS they really are? WHEN are we going to FIGHT BACK when they attack us unjustly? WHEN are we going to totally reject their fake science that throws out theories without supporting proof and peer reviewed tests? WHEN are we going to shut down the idiot assembly line?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DrOstrow 5/3/2020 2:32:42 PM (No. 399614)
Solar and wind power have NEVER measured up to the hype used to 'sell' them. Tell some solar enthusiast(s) that 'solar doesn't work half the time' and watch how long it takes for the 'gears to engage' and they understand WHAT you are saying ! It's almost humorous to watch !
In addition, the ignorance of the many products we get from petroleum is stunning. We get FAR more than just gasoline. Try running industry in general without grease ( it's even used in wind mills !! - no they are not turbines, turbine just sound better ! ). All types of oil from light to heavy, paints, plastics of every type, on and on, all use petroleum in their production but you never hear a peep about it.
IF petroleum becomes more rare ( 'IF' because there is a whole 'nother story / theory for another time about how petroleum just may NOT be made up of
'plants and animal carcasses' mashed & squeezed under high temperatures for a long period of time' ! ) it's cost will go up and it will become more and more valuable as a lubricant rather than as a fuel.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
seamusm 5/3/2020 2:47:28 PM (No. 399635)
Bravo, Mr. Moore. I rarely agree with you but just as only Nixon could have gone to China, perhaps only you could say this and be heard.
I am reminded of visiting Amish Eastern Pennsylvania and seeing a buckboard pulled by horses in turn pulling a diesel combine. We are all often just slaves to our illusions.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 5/3/2020 3:19:01 PM (No. 399663)
#10, I bought a propane refrigerator from a mail order source. I called to order it, this is 25 years ago. I got a nice man, Amish, and after the order, I asked about his other business, which was custom furniture. I asked how it was powered. He said it was powered by compressed air running basically "engines" which use the air to drive their pistons, not burning fuel. I asked where the compressed air came from - he bought it as a utility from his 'neighbor' on the other side of a wall in his building. A diesel compressor ran over there to compress the air. All that stupid monkey motion and wasted energy to avoid using electric motors to drive his woodworking shop tools, because it is against their religion.
Not much different than the fools who drive Teslas because their religion tells them that they must.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 5/3/2020 3:23:00 PM (No. 399671)
#10, and I asked about the phone we were conversing on.....he said that he had an agreement with his neighbor on the other side of the wall to use his phone for business. 🙄
A nice Amish gentleman, making a living as best he could, avoiding the silly obstacles raised by his funny religion.
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