I Love Saying ‘I Told You So’

I’m not a Colbert fan.  Usually I avoid whatever he is saying due to the fact that he is a left-wing asshat.  But even broken clock is right twice a day.

This video helps me do to things:

1. Say “I Told You So”
2. Use the same source against those who love it most

In here, Johnny Boy basically says something I’ve been saying here for over five years. 

Alternatives are great.  They are.  The free market makes them all the time.  A person sees a profit (oooh, so evil) to be made because of a need, and goes at it with all they’ve got.  

However, this “Let’s get off of oil” because “They are inventing new technologies” thing is simply crap.  You don’t stop eating just because there is talk of an alternative to food.

Every time you hear someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about bring up our dependence on oil as something we need to break, they usually cite vague ’alternatives’ or ‘new technologies’.  They have been doing so for the last 30 years.  Let’s see them last through a 30 year hunger strike waiting for that new alternative technology for food.

But as you know, if we simply reduce our dependence on oil without government intervention, then environMental lobbyist groups won’t be able to rape us for money.

Part of the reason these “new technologies” are nowhere to be found in a form that will do any good is blindingly obvious.  What do all of these “Fixes” have in common?  Government.

So, to sum up this rant:  I Told You So.  I said many times that just because there are pipe dreams for “new technologies” doesn’t mean we should get off of oil right now.