I assume this at least means corn-based ethanol would also be forbidden:
“It’s time to stop getting our energy from the ground… we are here to work toward the day and envision the day when we will get our energy from heaven,” a Unitarian-Universalist preacher told the ground at the interfaith event to kick off today’s rally, a service that also featured a rabbi singing about how “farmers turn on the spigot in their kitchens and the water turns to flame.”
Before the speakers began, the organizers led the crowd of hundreds in a chorus of “This Little Light of Mine.”
Ah, science!
It's funny that a burning bush was once considered a sign of God's presence. Had Moses been surrounded by today's eco-freaks he'd have wet his pants, declared making bricks without straw "sustainable," and encouraged the Israelites to continue with their low-carbon footprint lifestyle in Egypt.
I suggest the protesters sing the Prattle Hymn of the Republic the next time they gather to speak in tongues and handle fakes.
I fear interpretive dance is getting closer by the moment.
UPDATE: The green faithful are upset that we can get more energy from the ground:
Back in those salad days of green arrogance, there was plenty of scoffing at the ‘peak oil deniers’ and shortage skeptics who disagreed with what greens told us all was settled, Malthusian science. “Reality based” green thinkers sighed and rolled their eyes at the illusions of those benighted techno-enthusiasts who said that unconventional sources like shale oil and gas and the oil sands of Canada would one day become available.
Environmentalists, you see, are science based, unlike those clueless, Gaia-defying technophiles with their infantile faith in the power of human creativity. Greens, with their awesome powers of Gaia-assisted intuition, know what the future holds.
Their green jobs are nowhere to be seen as government-favored solar companies go bust and oil companies bring up more and more gas and oil.
These are truly hard days to be a Green. Faith is shaken by events in the real world unsupported by even a single computer model of what must be.
But the faithful will not be swayed by these trials. They have only to remain faithful and they will be rewarded.
Who knew that Green Jobs are people and not ways to earn money?
