Here I was hoping to tie in the recent power supply troubles in Spain and Portugal to those mean ol’ dinosaurs, who had the good karma to die and leave us fossil fuels. As it turns out, however, what they taught me in grammar school is all wrong. Fossil fuels actually come from small plants and animals living way back when and then dying to give us oil and natural gas.
Anyway, that’s all beside the point. The point is that Spain and Portugal, who hitched their energy bandwagons to the sun and wind — solar cells and windmills — recently found themselves plunged into two days of darkness despite their making the climate change fanatics of the world happy with their fossil fuel aversion.
It seems that Spain’s nuclear plants are truly the life-force of the energy grid, and evidently the nuclear plants were inoperable, enabling their non-fossil cousins to play a trick on the clean-energy freaks.
I stand with Donald J. Trump on this whole issue: “Drill, baby, drill,” and we ain’t referring to the foundations for solar cells or windmills.
No sirree, Bob. We’re talkin’ about drillin’ for good ol’ oil and natural gas. so that America can have a steady and reliable source of energy for decades to come. Building more nuclear power plants wouldn’t be a bad idea either.
Anyway, does it all matter? According to Bartender Sandy, the world will end in 2031. She forgot to add that civilization will perish when everyone freezes to death due to recalcitrant windmills and solar cells.
Revenge of the dinosaurs — for our miscasting them in the energy wars.