“Ok, We Can Agree to a Maximum Temperature of 68 Degrees In Our Homes and Apartments…”
Imagining the Negotiation
By blackhedd
By now you’ve all heard the widely-quoted line that Obama gave to 75,000 of his closest friends in Portland yesterday. Roughly, “You can’t drive your SUVs, eat what you want, and heat your homes to 72 degrees and expect other countries to just say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.”
Think every word of that through very carefully. If it’s not going to happen that we’re going to be heating our homes and apartments to the temperature we choose, then why not?
Obama isn’t even President, but he’s already negotiating with other countries on our behalf.
Perhaps we shouldn’t be as concerned that the Messiah has signaled his intention to negotiate with people who have sworn to destroy our country and Israel. What he just told us is that he intends to negotiate how we drive, eat, and heat our homes with other countries. Something tells me that it’s going to be a really big winner with those bitter voters in swing states, to tell them that they’ll have to dial their thermostats down, because it’s not fair to other countries if we set them as we see fit.
One wonders what Obama hopes to get in return. To China, perhaps: “We agree to a maximum temperature of 68 degrees in our homes. You have to agree to stop buying so many automobiles from General Motors.” China’s response: “Ok, as long as we’re allowed to nationalize the factories GM is already running in our country.” Obama: “Done. Next point…”
If nothing else, he’s now made completely clear his view that the answer to the global energy problem is for Americans to net-reduce our usage of energy, even before more efficient technologies become available. To Obama, this is leadership. He may suppose that everyone else will say “if you do that, we’ll do it too.” Their actual response is more likely to be: ”Thanks for the cheaper energy, suckers.
-Francis Cianfrocca
