Title: Ed Begley, Jr. Loses Control Over ClimateGate Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Nov 25, 2009 Author:Ed Begley Post Date:2009-11-25 09:39:36 by Jethro Tull Ping List:*Leftwing Loon Alert*Subscribe to *Leftwing Loon Alert* Keywords:None Views:1508 Comments:59
It has to hurt a psychotic like Begley when all he believes in has been exposed to be a lie.
Here are five things Begley suggests you start doing this holiday season:
– Replace every conventional light bulb in your house or apartment with an energy-efficient LED bulb. “That includes your Christmas lights,” Begley notes. “They’re definitely cost-effective and use a whole lot less power.”
– Weather-strip your doors and windows. “You can go to Home Depot and get this done in less than a day,” Begley says. “You’ll start saving money on your first energy billing cycle.”
– Get yourself an energy-saving digital thermostat. “And don’t forget to program it,” Begley says. “Set it to your home habits, so it knows when you wake up and when you sleep. And don’t waste money heating your home when you’re not there.”
– Keep the car in the garage, especially for short trips for whip cream and eggnog. “Ride a bike when weather and fitness permit,” Begley explains. “Or use public transportation.”
– Stay grounded. “I think we fly too much,” Begley states. “There are a lot of emissions that go along with flying at 31,000 feet. I know I fly too much. I just recently drove up to Portland, Oregon and back in a hybrid car. That’s the way to do it.”
– Replace every conventional light bulb in your house or apartment with an energy-efficient LED bulb. “That includes your Christmas lights,” Begley notes. “They’re definitely cost-effective and use a whole lot less power.”
– Weather-strip your doors and windows. “You can go to Home Depot and get this done in less than a day,” Begley says. “You’ll start saving money on your first energy billing cycle.”
– Get yourself an energy-saving digital thermostat. “And don’t forget to program it,” Begley says. “Set it to your home habits, so it knows when you wake up and when you sleep. And don’t waste money heating your home when you’re not there.”
Actually, those are sound pieces of advice (the ones quoted). LED Christmas lights are gorgeous, no real heat and use like 10% of the energy. Nothing wrong with that. Normal house lighting still needs some work though, the LED bulbs are just now starting to give out reasonable light compared to normal bulbs, I suspect that we'll need a year or two to have them up to 60W bulb lumen output. That said, at 7W compared to 60W, the cost savings is huge, especially given the like 100,000 hour lifespan of LED lights.
The other two items are just common sense, and they help out on your utility bills as well.
You don't have to be an eco-religionist to see the cost benefits of those basic items I'd think.
Begely, fwiw, at least practices what he preaches. More than can be said of most eco-religionists whose sole goal is to change how *you* live. But yes, he is a nutbar. :)
The other two items are just common sense, and they help out on your utility bills as well.
You don't have to be an eco-religionist to see the cost benefits of those basic items I'd think.
Agree.
The largest energy saver that we've done was to have Radiant Barrier paint sprayed on the roof decking (in the attic). The last electric bill was $68 and change. Low-flow toilets, and timely rains, brought our water bill down to $18 and change.
Turning the computer off in the evening saves 350 watts of juice. A bunch of little things will add up the savings.
#12. To: Lod, Jethro Tull, SonOfLiberty, all (#10)
There's no shortage of energy here where I live. It's all hydro-powered. I buy fluorescents because they they last longer and save on the hydro bills. Feel kinda bad wondering what all that mercury will do to the environment, though. I get LED flashlights because the batteries last longer.
What's curious is getting a flyer in the mail that comes with the hydro bill saying we should use less hydro.
So I'm thinking, wouldn't they want us to use more?
So they get more money?
Then within a year after getting the flyer, we're getting charged extra for using TOO MUCH hydro.
They substantiate with some sort of a 'green tax' or some ridiculous mind ****.
They're charging us for using more of something there's absolutely no shortage of here.
What makes it more maddening is that most people don't even question it. They lap it up like it's a good thing.
Because the TV tells them it is.
And I get accosted by a pseudo-hippy at the grocery store handing out free tickets to a rally for 'climate change' wearing a snorkle to protest how the ocean's gonna rise twenty feet soon.
One day Austin Energy is congratulating us on saving so much energy that a new 500M generating plant is not needed, and the next day they say that we can expect a rate increase due to loss of revenue.
One day Austin Energy is congratulating us on saving so much energy that a new 500M generating plant is not needed, and the next day they say that we can expect a rate increase due to loss of revenue.
So we get hosed whatever we do.
I should have read down before I made my last reply. What you state is exactly what they do in many places. It's an utter and complete scam.
I'm highly encouraged by the progress of LED's and high energy efficiency appliances. At the rate it's going it's becoming almost feasible to go off grid without having to live like a granola munching smelly hippy. Then they can shove those bills up their fat monopoly asses.