Planet Gore on National Review Online: Little Green Book

re: Chris Horner writes: "Russell Roberts notes how Al Gore wants to do for US energy production what Mao did for Chinese steel production...[...snip...] ...It is worth noting that BP, which donated $100 fuel cards to attendees of Gore’s pre-Oscar party, is pushing this peasant-production idea hard, particularly in the form of a mandate in the UK that every home be a net contributor to “the grid” through microwind and the like. As I note in my book, although hailed by academia and the media for its “soft” persuasion, BP is no stranger to larding out money for its massive lobbying, er, public affairs efforts. /One of BP’s in-house PR gurus in London was kind enough to enthusiastically walk me through this a couple of years ago, responding to my disbelief with patient explanation about the need for a mandate to overcome societal stigma on microwind turbines, traceable to their association with government housing where it is mandated (frankly I've never personally witnessed the product of such mandates and this growing obsession in the UK, though my visits are generally to urban London where such turbines would be even more futile). Eyesores to be sure, he told me, but that’s a temporary reaction; after all, people were up in arms over the blight of satellite dishes, only to then get used to them, and once they're made to get used to this the same comfort will accrue. /And if they don’t? Well, Mao had answers for that, too."...