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The battle is joined

August 6th, 2008

The moonbats get involved in Pelosi’s attempt to circumvent the will of the people. They did not go unchallenged:

A protest planned by MoveOn.org against the ongoing House GOP floor protest became a surreal scene Tuesday when right-wing activists showed up outside the Capitol to protest the protest protest.

The conservative activists, numbering about 20 and affiliated with Free Republic, stood behind the MoveOn speakers waving signs along the lines of “Pump Rage? Thank MoveOn” and “It’s the Supply, Stupid.” The MoveOn crowd countered with their own pithy “Drill and Spill, or Surf and Swim?” and “Just Say No to False Solutions.”

Every good Commiecrat knows you can’t possibly alleviate a supply problem by increasing the supply. WE MUST MAKE DO WITH LESS! AMERICA NEEDS ITS WELL-EARNED COMEUPPANCE NOW! AND DON’T QUESTION OUR PATRIOTISM! But here’s the bit I really liked:

Walker, a retired auditor, said the response had been “fairly positive…Obviously, we need gas for our cars right now, but we need a plan for conservation and alternative energy,” she said. “If we can get on the moon, we can have renewable energy.”

Yeah, right. Except if we had adopted your restrictions on fossil fuels a long time ago, we’d never have gotten to the moon in the first place*. And if we had placed the restrictions on human existence you think we ought to — and were content merely to exist in the kind of mush-brained concept of “harmony” with Nature that you neo-Luddite liberals insist on, we’d never have gotten off the ground in the first place.

*Yes, I know the Apollo rockets didn’t use petroleum-based fuels. But Goddard’s first rockets did, and so did the piston-engined planes and the jets which taught us so much of what we know about the possibilities of flight, and without which etc. So there.

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  1. Orestes
    August 6th, 2008 at 09:57 | #1
    Actually, the big first stage of the Saturn V did use RP-1, which is highly refined kerosene, and burned it with liquid oxygen. The second and third stages burned hydrogen and oxygen, which are not petroleum themselves. But, since the primary methods of obtaining hydrogen are by either catalyzing natural gas or fuel oil, or by hydrolysis of water which requires electricity created by burning gas or oil, one can say that the second and third stages were also, albeit indirectly, fueled by fossil fuels.
  2. Mikey NTH
    August 9th, 2008 at 14:53 | #2
    If it was electricity, it was likely a coal fired plant.

    Punitive Liberalism - Higher, faster, better? You will sit around your dung fires on your ecologically sustainable farms and Like It!

    Now, I'm off to Geneva, so make sure you don't actually try anything funny!

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