The Cost of "Clean" Profits

I think I speak for the majority of rational people when I say; the Energy Department, GE, FutureGen, and any similarly mission-misguided companies have lost their FREAKING, money-grubbing minds if they think they can inject into our earth, carbon dioxide from coal-burning power plants and think it can be contained with no prospect for spewing into OUR atmosphere, drinking water, or other possible disastrously unknown shit-for-brains recommend natural resource options. According to today's NYT Article called Mounting Costs Slow the Push for Clean Coal engages in an asinine conversation with its share-holders about "cost" as if that should be the focus of the article. I think we should inject the newly developed technology underneath the homes of the share-holders since it's so cost-effective, and then they can tell us how that works for them.

Let me be clear...air trumps coal burning, water trumps coal burning, our forests trump coal burning, the ground stability trumps coal burning, our kids trump coal burning, (common, shout out the ones you can think of and insert here because we all have brains), etc. Think about anything you, your family, your children do and let's put them over the top of one of these "pumped" areas, and lift our hands with gratitude that it was low-cost. That's what would be on my mind as a family values person.

Our first clue to the de-tarded government plan is that "Bush is for it.." The only smart thing this article has to say is that, "Yet, simple as the idea may sound, considerable research is still needed to be certain the technique would be safe, effective and affordable." They really go the order messed up, but this way you might buy into it that they put "safe" first. Let me tell you what that really means: They're going to run a bunch of tests to see how much damage it does and then they will weight that out against the number of people it will kill. They will then take the cost associated with those numbers and try to get to the cost to kill ratio to the level where the number of people they kill and what it will cost to defend themselves in court will still allow them to make a profit. That's what these MF'rs really mean!

This really leads us into the way corporations generally run, which is based on the cost to kill model I outlined above. Whether it's pharmaceuticals, medical insurance, energy companies, car companies, food industry, etc. this is the model they follow. It's all very scientific. They can actually figure out exactly what percentage of people will die by using or living around their product, what the litigation costs will be and how much harm their product is allowed to cause by law. Then, on the cheap, they try to push the litigation ratio as far as they can to maximize profits against the death of individuals and families. The Legislators mostly are bought through "campaing contributions" that ammount to buy-offs, and the same corporations often own the media who's going to inform you of the risks. This is how we get BS like all the toxic toys from China, the ecoli-infestation of our food supply, denials of treatment for medical conditions, mercury poisioning in our water from processing plants, etc. See, it's all calculated.

Then, on the litigation side, these same corporations are pretty successful at convincing at least half of the cognitively-challenged in America that the cost of your services and items will go up begause of litigation, or that as a share-holder, you will lose your profits. So, they get people to vote against their own interests, the very litigation that would make it cost-ineffective for them to continue to kill you, your family and your children. Doesn't it make sense that you can't love life and money at the same time. Hopefully you love life so much, that any money that comes alog will just be a bonus.

As I've pointed out in previous bloggs, life requires systems thinking. When you hear about the government or a company pushing an idea, you have to think about, what if that were done on my land, in my drinking water, in my air, under my home, in my home, around my children, to my loved ones. You have to be clear minded about "clean coal" and recognize what they're selling YOU and why.