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Lewis Black on Alternative Energy (Stark Raving Black)
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- Lewis discusses alternative energy from this clip from 2009's Stark Raving Black.
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Man what a master of using silence and cadence to really get the biggest impact possible out of his word economy in his writing. Its just so impressive to watch
I had one of those "car phones" with the giant battery packs. It was $.50 a minute and $1.00 for roaming. The Goddamn thing went into roaming every other fucking mile!!!
Well done sir!
We love you Lewis!! Good shit!!
Louis I need moments of clarity and brevity and you provide that. Thank you
Absolutely adore this man!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Do you know how much fuel it took to raise that corn so it could be turned into fuel? Make that make sense
Yes I do. It took more fuel and just as important, fertilizer to grow that corn than the fuel the corn could make. BUT. The farmers LOVED the higher prices that we the tax payer subsidized for certain companies to buy the corn. What a giant pile of BS that was.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around 3 million vaginas in a minute 😆
Thanks to sane people.🎉🎉🎉🎉
Notice the Solar panels you see now around your towns. The Wind Turbines. Alternative Energy is happening now.
Solar panels degrade each year, plus dont work when its cloudy. Wind turbines are seizing and falling down, plus leak incredible amounts of oil. They kill millions of birds. Plus turbine parts are being thrown in forests because they are too expensive to recycle.
Thanks Lew alternatives ARE essential
Sure work for me- gas disposal unit (furnace) is cold-iron for 16 yrs. Methane has bad (okay, terrible) juju besides, as greenhouse gas.
Can we make Lewis a national treasure? 😂
When in college, one of my profs took used cooking oil and used it in his VW.
If ya ever need to laugh ..Lewis Black is the one to listen to
Yep no one ever includes energy to make things not just it's materials.
Lewis is a tremendous comic
Love this shit!!!
When you talk.....I hear my thoughts.
🖤The Black Man.....
Actually the cellphone is a radio.
Analog cell phones were radio's. Digital is a computer.
@@dougm2681 it has no wires connecting it to the phone lines, so it is a radio.
Shades of Soylent Green! 🤣
This guy just makes me laugh 😂
I don't mean to disagree but Corn has been used to make ethanol for 200 yrs the first 3 oz.. of a gallon of methanol is ethanol which until recently was just discarded now we can drive on it.
The amount of damage ethanol is doing to engines that are not built for it is crazy. Most don't get fixed and then the engine/car/truck/whatever goes to junkyard/scrapyard.
@@markae0 not to mention the hangovers it's caused.
You are being disingenuous here. That is absolutely not the process presently being used for industrial production of corn ethanol.
Actually distillation is exactly how the ethanol is removed from the corn.
@@johnhosley5468 Yes and you aren't working a rhetorical trick to make it seem old timey and like a dream come true. The industrial process is entirely different: Ethanol is not a free byproduct of methane production.
Does Mr. Black fly to his gigs? Still funny stuff.
No. there are two main types of corn. The corn that people eat is sweet corn. The other type is field corn. Field corn is fed to animals. Or you can make alcohol from it. No one turned people food into fuel.
Brilliant!!!
How much fuel does it take to grow food to turn to fuel??
I did stand-up. I did many things. My motive was to get a pay check. Things I did otherwise were auditions for big money work, and I worked out primarily at the Comic Strip in Fort Lauderdale. My experiences were the same as if I was being paid in that for a few times and enough otherwise I got the entire room to laugh. I want to do a pro set again before I die. Mr. Lewis Black is an inspiration for me. My general, biggest hero is Ulysses S. Grant. There must be some other heroes that I have besides Mr. Lewis Black. I was once searching for heroes like William Faulkner was for me in the category of writer. Mr. Black said he loved his audience because he got to write as they were his audience. When you have in front of you an audience that you can tell did not experience life on Earth as you know it, What is left to do but just do your act. Say that you see them and improvise for the next 45 minutes what the hell but insulting each and every one of them you see, are you to do. You want them to love you so you'll get booked somewhere in the future. Whatever is the wrong answer is funny. Whatever is the right answer is funny. I'm sorry, it is the questions that make the matter.
U get it
Using corn for fuel if far safer for people than consuming it.
If they was to use the methane that comes off of hot garbage or even the methane that comes off of a sewer plant it could be used for cooking or other. They might have to scrub it to make it smell better but you could use it.
Problem with methane is preventing leaks. It's an extremely powerful greenhouse gas, way beyond carbon dioxide. Permian basin is one huge source of leaks.
I know in Vietnam, many peasants used it to cook with. they use plastic type garbage bags to store it and then vent to a stove,,,
Our local landfill collects the venting methane to run a generator for lighting.
“It’s in green beans for fuck sakes”
I was raised on green beans and corn.
The people get it but the people in charge don't give a fudge
Oh man
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Yes, our country has advanced so much but we have also gone down the drain when we have a choice of Trump and Biden to run our country. We deserve better but our political parties have let us down, we have a choice between a too old man and an old conman, thank you Republicans and Democrats.
Good smart people don’t go into politics. They run companies.
That's why we got to do away with the two party system
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I voted for Bernie Sanders
We should all vote for Lewis Black
It’s not hard. Use all means to power the country. Wind, Solar, Natural Gas, Cleaner Coal plants, Hydro. For cars and trucks. Electric, Gas powered. We can create artificial demand for something that is not ready for prime time. Some day we will move to green energy but for now it’s just not there yet. 😊
I love Lewis, but he's seriously wrong about the whole 'Food to Fuel' thing. There are 4 major strains of corn.
1) The stuff we roast and eat.
2) The stuff we feed pigs and which we eat as Popcorn.
3) The crap that is used for High Fructose Corn Syrup.
4) The stuff used for Ethanol.
Number 2 is barely edible. I mean it's essentially Pig Food that we consume because we don't know any better. There's only one way to eat it and that's as popcorn.
Numbers 3 & 4 are not edible and serve to other purpose (well I guess you could make an argument for High Fructose Corn Syrup being edible. But not in my world).
Of course, there used to be over 200 strains of corn but that's another story.
Point is that the same property and labor can be used for growing edible food.
@@craigb8228 I guess, but I used to work for Whole Foods and we sold corn at 10 ears for $1 and it only sold on the 4th of July. Nobody buys corn because it's ALL GMO (Genetically Modified Organism). Corn has been so heavily modified that it, literally, produces it's own pesticides 'naturally'. Mind you, pesticides are basically the substances used for chemical warfare during the first world war. Pesticides are the chemicals that 'didn't kill people fast enough' to be used in a war. Bottom line is, people don't buy corn on a regular basis. We sold more tortillas made from Yucca in a day than we sold corn tortillas in a year. Corn is suicide. I know, most of the world depends on corn to survive, but that doesn't mean we aren't killing them in the process. If you think America is above killing for the bottom line, then you need to go back and read your history.
Price of corn tortillas rose greatly when we started with ethanol, causing much hardship in Mexico.
@ 6:45 the female laughter that’s sooooooo enjoying the shit outta that joke lmfao
Another shot of Black. Food for fuel was 1 billion a year gov't subsidy. They were paying back the doners. Arthur Daniel Midland midland paid about 3 million in tax deductible contribution. Bet you didn't even feel it. Hundreds of Thousands of GREEN ENERGY Amp hours due to the inability of our wonderful grid can't connect to them. like a whole town.
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dang... WHO is that young man...?
I hope by now someone has explained to Lewis that 99% (not joking) of the corn grown in the USA is completely, utterly unfit for human consumption because it's grown to feed livestock. And I can guarantee Lewis from here in the heart of Illinois - corn is kind of a thing here y'know - that not one single edible-by-humans bit of corn EVER gets used in the production of ethanol. I love Lewis, but no food is being used to make fuel here. Maybe in the countries where they use sugar cane?? 🤔
I’m from Kansas, and I approve this post.
Then there is Brasil were the ethanol is made from sugar cane. I hardly consider sugar an important food.
He is making a point. The point is corn is grown for food in one way or another human or live stock. So let's say farmer grows both but does little more than he uses for his livestock so he won't sell to fuel or he cuts his human edible corn crop so now it's less for us so price raises cuz there is less. But then you argue there are farmers who grow only for fuel yes that use to be livestock corn and ours so that means less for livestock and for all you that feed deer and others. So that's why those prices have gone up and price of corn has so yea he is right think about it it is using our corn we eat away. So actually think about it he right it's our corn used cuz the fields have changed to our food crop is now smaller think about it hard how much corn is needed to meet our ethanol needs in America 10 acres no it'll be million acres of corn and that was food for humans and livestock so don't talk unless you think hard
Also don't forget I'm in farming area we have lost 10 small farmers do to trying to complete with large farms or the kids don't want the farm so they are sold and most the time it's bought by investors to sell for housing or businesses so the land is gone we have lost 500 acres in my area in last 10 years or so that will not be farm land so farm crops are shrinking meaning less crops planted which also makes lewis statement true cuz 100 acres or so of that lost land was always corn we ate so that's gone. So the fields we would grab a few cobs from once in while is now not for us to eat. He makes his point in ways to make you laugh and think he is smart but the point I made which is true can you make my real points and truth funny no cuz it would be boring and no one will pay and they will walk out so there goes his shows. Have you also every seen some people that can't understand simple facts or they can't understand how you can drive an electric car in the rain cuz water ruins electronics. So try to read deeper for ones that can't get the true I gave they understand the just with his comical comments he knows and what makes him great comic his he knows is fan base and ones that love his show and think for a second knows the truth he is laying ground work for. So would you pay 50 a ticket to go to a someone fighting a point in congress bet you would never pay and if you think you would would you wouldn't pay attention the same way. Same there have been very few who comics that try and get real points out even if they gotta word it differently so people laugh and think those are robin Williams george carlin red fox Richard P Christopher titus they try to bring out real concerns in comical ways so you will listen
Well it maybe not be human food but still animal food. Less corn available for animal feed will drive up the cost of animal feed. Not a very smart idea either
2009 they were saying electric cars would only have a range of 40 miles. This was when the Tesla roadster was getting 220 miles. Num nuts!
I'm a baby boomer... born because my beautiful, good looking mother finished high school at the end of WWII in Pontiac Michigan...the car factory city of the same name... my father was a "randy Navy man" back home after 3 years in the pacific war... they both turned into breeding hamsters (!), like many Americans did.
I was born right off, so my parents moved to a small country village that was over a 100 years of age. Tiny place and mostly farms.... A town with a tiny bank branch and a 10 lane bowling ally.... plus a Log cabin style American Legion Hall.
Our first phone was what they called back then; a party line, so if you were on it, someone would break into your conversation and sat; they wanted to use it??? Then they changed it to just a dial phone direct and it would be on a small table in the middle of the house so anyone closest to it could run and answer.
Then the new magic, they started adding more than one phone including a "wall phone" near the kitchen hall wall and one in the bedroom. And the world was a perfect place...
I ran a procurement division for the US Army (DOD) with such phones into the late 70's ... we could call the WORLD from my desk or call a bunker complex with NUKES direct! Then in the late 80's or early 90's a contractor I knew got a mobile phone in Australia (Where I moved to be a teacher) ... it looked like a field phone we used in combat in Vietnam... then came the flip mobile phone, and then, finally one like Lewis is holding.
Has the world become a better place? Only God knows... my grand kids love them??? Me? ... it sits in my pickup (Australian Ute) so if I break down or one of the kids needs me... no games or even apps, I still use cash to buy things and my home computer for any internet solutions. I still use my "land line" to call friends in the USA.... I remember the days of sign writers, pin stripes, gold leaf lettering on glass. Hand made cabinets.
The doctors tell me that I've been poison with Dioxin (Agent Orange) from Vietnam and I'm dying at 74 years of age as most Australian VN Vets (average life of 57 years) (American VN Vets, over 400,000 have died because of Dioxin poisoning after they got home). My parents lived till their mid 90's and both died because of accidents, not old age.
BUT NOW..... Now any fool can spill a line of "BS" onto that technical wonder; mobile phone and there is someone, somewhere who will buy that Bull Sh*t as a fact of life.... Please think...how are we better off?
Love seeing this in historical context. In 2023, the state of Ohio has classified natural gas as green energy. Welcome to the future, FML!
Compared to wind turbines, it is green energy...
C'mon. It was St. Patty's Day... you f*ker!
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we don't need their permission we can just do it. wanna get started?
Way too much money in oil .It ain't going anywhere soon .
Food as fuel.
Alternative energy is crap by the numbers. Wind gobbles up farm land and requires strip mining. Solar strip mining. Lithium batteries for EV strip mining and 10 times the half life of uranium wate.
Corn hes actual wrong on. Ethanol is produced with corn specially raised hybrids for Ethanol production.
Alternative energy isn't going to work because because there isn't enough, it's inefficient, and it's too expensive.
Sorry, but none of that is true. Enough energy from sunlight enters the atmosphere *in one hour* to meet the power needs of every person on Earth for one year, according to National Geographic Encyclopedia on solar energy. That is so much that we don't need high efficiency collectors. The technology continues to advance year by year. Cost of solar panels had dropped by 70% just in the last few years.
I suspect you get your information from sources funded by the oil and gas industry, as well as private power companies, all of which has fought this for decades. Try other sources, like my favorite channel Just have a Think.
Look up the efficiency of the internal combustion/car engine 30 to 40 %. People also have a need to drive faster than 45 and when you drive past the speed of 45 MPH the friction with air gets far to high for fuel economy. "If you double your speed, air resistance increases fourfold. At speeds of 40mph or less, its impact is negligible, but it becomes crucial at speeds of 40mph and faster."
Conflict Gaming, You don’t actually know anything about this, do you?
Er….food is fuel.
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Good thing Lewis Black is not on the science team. Nothing would've got invented!
Just had my solar turned on today. It’s happening just really slowly
Maybe why they gmo'd it.... probably
So true it is a joke
corn does not belong in my fuel tank .......................... period
USAF: go-to moon an get H3 ,helium three , clean abundant efficient cheap safe form of nuclear power . C'mon man .
"I'm sure this is not gonna happen".
Statement has not aged well. It *is* happening.
wow so insightful! its almost like he thinks we live in a tiny country with no landmass to grow corn in..
in England this would be HILARIOUS
in the USA..
well
we have Nebraska...
lewis black has made a career out of being mad at the wrong things
he a poor mans bill hicks..
AT&T
Sorry Lewis, they were right about lighter cars. Horrific crashes, many deaths.
Wrong! Lighter cars don't cause accidents, bad drivers do. You must drive a tank.
Automobiles made from lighter and *less protective* materials in order to meet MPG standards based on spurious rumors about carbon emissions or even petroleum shortages (both of which are blatant lies promulgated in order to promote the sociopolitical and economic interests of those promoting them) ARE more dangerous. Old-style, steel-framed cars were heavy and often ugly but also extremely protective in the event of collision. The puny, little plastic toys on the roads nowadays, while perfect expressions of adherence to the Church of Enviro-Fablism, will not protect you nearly so well against collision with other objects which you may discover suddenly and unavoidably in your way. Particularly evocative of equal measures of amusement and pity are the oversized roller skates fashionable among young urbanites, whose sense of value for money inspires immediate recollection of a favored commentary of my dearly departed father-in-law, "Did you feel your change hit you in the back of the head when you bought that thing?" Imagine one of those sporty, li'l motorcars, with as many as TWO whole seats, and cargo space for a purse puppy, or a hundred dollars of groceries at today's prices, hitting a highway guardrail stanchion at 55 MPH. Now imagine a big, black ('cause that was the color it came in) '55 Chevy "shoe box" coupe taking that same impact. The hamster wheel in the former would be inextricably merged with the mortal remains of driver and passenger, all the way to the rear bumper. The '55's 288 cubic inch V8 wouldn't even budge under impact, assuming that the front bumper and battleship grade steel hood gave any way at all, never mind allowing any trauma to reach you through the firewall. And before you start yapping about seatbelts and airbags being poorly designed and nonexistent in that era, respectively, shoulder harnesses and boom bags did get added in later years, and would have as well in road tanks of the sort, had those designs persisted. ='[.]'=
Ethanol fuel was a boondoggle for agricultural interests from the jump. A completely lame and stupid idea-apparent to anyone who thinks about it foe a short minute.
It won't be long before you can marry your phone📱 or laptop. The divorce rates would skyrocket though.
Meh. IMHO, he's just not that funny anymore. Funny the first time you see him, but once you've seen his schtik, you've seen it.
we've created a generation of people who hate their parents because British Petroleum told them Mom and Dad shouldn't have been so needy 🌎🤠👍🤣❤️
wow, so not funny
Never was. Get on Board.
We only had two jobs folks as humans to become human beings. Take care of each other and take care of the garden that takes care of us. That's it. That simple. We failed so now the world collapses around your children and you can forget any grandchildren having any type of future