Simply Brilliant, or Brilliantly Simple Department
Senator Harry Reid (Dimwit, NV) says, and I quote: “We’ve got to stop using fossil fuel.”
James Lileks, in a beautifully trenchant bit of reasoning, has a terrific first step for stopping fossil fuel use:
There’s only one sensible response: we have to shut down Las Vegas. Yes, I know, they get their power from hydro, but juice is fungible; the power that goes to light up Vegas could be used to take oil-fired plants off the grid. Closing down Vegas would reduce Nevada’s carbon footprint in other ways: a quarter of all tourists come from California, and I’d wager they drive. (Or drive to wager.) Thirty-six million visit Vegas each year – at least three million people a month arrive and depart from the airport on pollution-spewing fossil-fuel consuming planes.
There is no practical reason for Vegas to exist. Surely this is a luxury we can do without; surely Nevada can find other sources of revenue to fund the government. If Las Vegas does not voluntarily cease operations, I call upon the Senate to either ban flights entirely, or impose a luxury surcharge equal to 110% of the ticket price, because Las Vegas and the waste it represents is ruining the world.
Surely, Senator Reid can get behind that proposal, if fossil fuels are the evil he seems to think they are.
Roy M. Jacobsen
in Modern Life, Better Living Through..., Just Plain Silly
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