Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Foreign Policy nominates Barack Obama's "ten worst ideas"
Foreign Policy magazine has a list of Barack Obama's "ten worst ideas." In such a target-rich environment the selection process must have been arduous.
Never fear, FP processes a list of John McCain's lame proposals next week.
1 Comments:
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Tue Sep 02, 03:29:00 PM:
A few are silly and populist, but frankly, I have to disagree with "coal to liquid fuels".
The general linkage to "Nazi Germany" (Godwin's Law invoked?) and "apartheid South Africa" (double PC points!), plus "increased Greenhouse gas emissions", appears to me, in a facile sense, to be a strawman argument.
The technology has progressed quite a bit since the '70's. Plans could fly off the drawing boards tomorrow if the Fed. government gave the encouragement (think tax breaks). If we are going to pay $3.50/gallon for gas, I would rather it went to the coal mines and refineries in the US than to the Middle East, or points elsewhere.
And as much as I think CO2 'sequestration' is a boondoggle, sequestration would be straightforward with a properly designed coal-gasifcation plant, with the captured CO2 from the process pumped into old oil fields to enhance recovery, ala sequestration.
-David
