He we are facing the biggest crisis in our history since the Civil War and still we are arguing about things that, if left alone, would take care of themselves.  For example, in Los Angeles there is a fight brewing over a proposed utility rate increase to fund a change to "Green" power sources, like wind as opposed to fossil fuels.  Look gang, I know that it is accepted science that green power is better than fossil power, but that is just a lot of junk nonsense.

The truth is that so-called green sources of energy are in fact a weird throw-back to 12^th Century technologies as opposed to 21st Century solutions.  We have been using windmills in one form or another for a long, long time and the reason that we converted to oil, coal, and natural gas over the past 100 years or so is because it is a LOT more efficient.  Simply, we can get a lot more power cheaper if we use fossil fuels as opposed to wind or sun or any other ancient thing that doesn't really work.  That is why it costs so much more.  It is just supply and demand.  Since we have to work much harder to get less power, the power will cost more.

Now, lest you think I am some sort of Neanderthal who defends only the interests of big business, I think that nuclear power is just as dumb.  The president, not to be left behind in the race to introduce more stupid government solutions to problems that are not really problems at all, has proudly announced the building of new nuclear plants for the first time in decades.  This is hailed by even republicans as a great thing.  It's not.  Nuclear power plants need heavy government subsidies just like wind and solar to run.  If this power was such a great thing, why does it cost more?  Simple, it sucks.

Look, free markets tell us everything we have to know about just about everything we have to do in just about every area of our lives.  The cheapest power is the best power and that means fossil fuel?  What about foreign oil and our dependence upon it?  It's no big deal; we need to buy it, they want to sell it, and it is a lot cheaper than any other alternative.  What if we drill more in places like ANWR or offshore?  Well, we pick up a little but nowhere near enough to offset foreign purchases, but so what?  What is really the problem with that?  Oh, they get "our" money?

Here is the truth, after you pay a vendor for a product or service it is no longer your money; it is theirs!  How we get lost in simple answers to problems that don't really exist.  The world is swimming in oil and natural gas.  When it really starts to run out a century from now, private industry will have long since developed alternatives that make sense meaning that they don't need government subsidies to run day to day.

Somehow as a culture, we have gotten into a mindset that if the government does something, their intention is somehow more noble than private enterprise - which is only motivated by greed.  How did we get that way?  Since when is profit anything other than a good thing because it means that the product or service is being delivered as efficiently as possible?  I just don't get the mindset that government is good and business is bad.  It is absolutely the other way around.