Bob Hayes Online

Because it’s not like we need alternative energy sources, or anything.

Idiots.

I’m not much of a green, but even I can see how this enormous floating plastic dump is problematic. I don’t see why they say we can’t do anything about it, though. 3.5 million tons of plastic has an enormous market value, and the nature of the currents are such that more feedstock comes in every day. It must be worth someone’s time to set up a retrieval and recycling operation.

(H/T You Guessed It)

It’s a bit early for that, but this is interesting.

(H/T Althouse.)

Bob Zubrin has an absolutely brilliant idea: require new vehicles to be equipped to run flex-fuel, i.e., from either alcohol fuels or regular gasoline. The technology seems to be proven and the cars are a small segment of the market today - so small, unfortunately, that most gas station owners don’t want to put in pumps for alcohol fuels that almost nobody can use. If new cars can use either pump, drivers can choose ethanol or methanol or other biofuels - making them instantly economically viable across the country. But never mind my blathering - go read the whole piece, it’s excellent.

Normally I am opposed to direct government mandates on technology. But this is one that I think the car companies would like. And if the car companies don’t like it, in this case I’m willing to put pure capitalism behind economic nationalism. And, it f**** OPEC, and I’m pretty much in favor of anything that does that.