Friday's Absurdity: Shipper's Solution to Climate Change: Giant Sails?

I swear to you I do not make this stuff up, folks. Bloomberg Business ran a story yesterday detailing plans by one shipping company to use…wait for it…GIANT SAILS to conserve fuel and and fight the all-powerful, all-knowing “climate change.”

Here, I swear to you, is an actual excerpt from that actual story:

Add ships being dragged along by giant kites to the list of things the industry is exploring in its quest to decarbonize.

At the start of next year, the Ville de Bordeaux, a 154-meter-long ship that moves aircraft components for Airbus SE, will unfurl a 500 square meter kite on journeys across the Atlantic Ocean. It will undergo six months of trials and tests before full deployment.

While the industry has come up with multiple decarbonization initiatives, it is struggling to keep pace with goals set out under the Paris Agreement on climate. There’s also pressure on shipping lines from large customers who are pressing to make their own supply chains less polluting.

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Ah, yes, rest assured this and so much more insanity is taking place in the name of meeting “goals” set under the Paris Climate Accords. What you haven’t been told by our utterly dishonest, corrupt news media and our utterly corrupt, dishonest political class is that the shipping industry has also moved to a new, cleaner and - of course - more costly diesel fuel over the past two years, and some shippers have even moved to using more costly bio-diesel and other artificial fuels to power their ships, all in the name of “climate change.”

Your media and political class don’t want you to be overly aware of these things for one simple reason: Inflation. See, higher fuel costs in the shipping industry invariably lead to higher costs for all manner of consumer goods, given that most of them are imported into the U.S. on these container ships.

Everything you purchase that is imported from China or Korea or Indonesia or the Philippines or Thailand or Europe or South America or anywhere else has already gone up in price because of the frenzy to meet these “goals” set in the Paris accords.

Hey, sails are cheap - maybe going back to sailing vessels is the real answer to all of this. Right?

Holy crap.

That is all.