Warm winter drops electric bills...

[King of the Americas]

...at least that's how worldnetdaily.com reported the warmest year on record.

That's right, forget about melting ice caps, 70 degree days in the middle of winter for New Yorkers with no snow to date...WE ARE SAVING MONEY ON OUR ELECTRIC BILL!

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/09/D8MHUMVO0.html

I must admit, my electic bill is markedly lower than it was this time last year, but I still think it is a tad intellectually dishonest to make people think everything is great with this whole global warming trend and the only thing we have to worry about is lower electric bills...until the summer that is...

 

[Darth Rotor]

...at least that's how worldnetdaily.com reported the warmest year on record.

That's right, forget about melting ice caps, 70 degree days in the middle of winter for New Yorkers with no snow to date...WE ARE SAVING MONEY ON OUR ELECTRIC BILL!

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/09/D8MHUMVO0.html

I must admit, my electic bill is markedly lower than it was this time last year, but I still think it is a tad disintellectually dishonest to make people think everything is great with this whole global warming trend and the only thing we have to worry about is lower electric bills...until the summer that is...

Well, that may be good news for some, but given last summer's bills here in Texas, I am not tossing the confetti just yet.

DR

 

[BPSCG]

That's right, forget about melting ice caps, 70 degree days in the middle of winter for New Yorkers with no snow to date...WE ARE SAVING MONEY ON OUR ELECTRIC BILL!

And thereby reducing the CO2 emissions you would otherwise be spewing into the air.

Huzzah! The cure for global warming is... more global warming!

(*** tosses confetti, blows noisemaker ***)
(*** remembers he's going skiing in New England tomorrow, sweeps up confetti, throws away noisemaker, slashes wrists ***)

 

[Overman]

In IL here we are about to take a HUGE spike in our electric bills...finally paying for those shut down plants a couple of years ago....

 

[King of the Americas]

Actually, I wish the whole gloabal warming thing would happen, already.

The suspense is killing me. Will it happen, won't it, will it bring an ice age, or just bigger plants and bugs? Will it cause the ocean's currents to come to a halt, or will it just mean new beach front property in Central Texas?

I understand that New York is about to get an end to their 'warm' trend, so maybe they'll get all their winter at once?

 

[marksman]

I suspect that if it were a harsh winter, the news would be about soaring oil prices and how money is lining the pockets of Venezuela and Iran.... Won't someone think of poor Hugo Chavez and Mahmud Ahmedinejad?!

 

[BPSCG]

I suspect that if it were a harsh winter, the news would be about soaring oil prices and how money is lining the pockets of Venezuela and Iran.... Won't someone think of poor Hugo Chavez and Mahmud Ahmedinejad?!

You forgot about how the harsh weather is hurting the poor and the homeless and it's BusHitlerCheneyHalliburton's fault because they won't raise the minimum wage.

There's an old joke about a New York Times headline:

World Ends
Poor, Minorities Hard Hit
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[steverino]

(Rosanna Rosana Dana) "George doesn't seem warmer to me. I saw him on Hollywood Squares and he was not that hot."

 

[steverino]

(Rosanna Rosana Dana) "George doesn't seem warmer to me. I saw him on Hollywood Squares and he was not that hot."

woops, I meant to add this photo for added comedy effect.

 

[BPSCG]

So I'm hearing on the radio this am that oil is now around $53 a barrel (remember when it was $70 not so long ago?) because of the warm weather in the east. People aren't using as much heating oil, and refiners are having to cut back their production to accommodate the reduced demand.

Of course, this means less money in the pockets of the Arab and Persian terrorist financiers, which is also a good thing.

So here's to global warming: the cause of, and the solution to, all our problems!

 

[davefoc]

Well we in California just got through with a pretty cold December.

I know because the gas bill for the apartment I own almost doubled from the month before.

 

[Grammatron]

Well we in California just got through with a pretty cold December.

I know because the gas bill for the apartment I own almost doubled from the month before.

Why don't you tell them how cold it was.

 

[King of the Americas]

Warm, hot, cool, cold, it all happens in a single day here in Texas.

We have saying, "If you don't like the weather, wait 4 hours and it will change."

My grandfather would tells us stories about "the old'en days", wherein on the day of the first freeze, they would slaughter a hog, gut it, leave it to hang in the shed/barn, and then the next day butcher it. Then they'd make a HUGE pot of pork and veggie stew, now I am talking about a 30 gallon pot of stew... After having their day's alotment, they'd leave the stew outside or in the barn to freeze, so that throughout the winter, if they wanted stew for supper, they'd just go out and lop off a chunk.

This story was told of days that happen 50-60 years ago. Today, one couldn't repeat this tradition. Firstly, the first freeze would come too late, this year it was just after Thanksgiving. Secondly, the hog would have been thawed or warm, the next day, because it doesn't STAY cold long, here anymore. And lastly, we don't have a 'frozen' winter here anymore. These days, we lose a lot of fruit trees that blossom too soon, and end up getting their buds frozen off.

Long story short, it is hotter here, than it used to be even a half a century ago. Frozen winters are no more...

All that said, I am sincerely tired of waiting. I wanna see some fireworks, you know oceans consuming coastal cities, due to ice caps melting, then I'd like to see the ice caps come back and reclaim their land, and then some as another mini-ice age sits in.

Sadly, I'll probably be an old man, barely able to flee the incoming tide, when the event happens. But at least I'll be poor enough not to live next to an ocean when it happens...

I think the above headline joke is wrong. If and when the 'fit' hits the 'shan', I think the rich will suffer, right along with the poor. Bye Bye ocean front property, hello Dallas as a bay port.