Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Innumeracy on the Factor

I'm watching Bill O'Reilly on the Factor last night.  He has some blonde Hollywood woman on who is selling "Alternate Energy".  O'Reilly allows that he has a house on Long Island that needs to be heated.  The Alternate Energy Blonde then launched into a long spiel about how to heat with alcohol.  She is sincere, makes you want to run out and pour a fifth of Old Crow into the furnace. 
  But,  O'Reilly never asks her how much alcohol costs.  Furnace oil costs me $4 a gallon.  Whiskey costs  me $20 a gallon at the State Store.  Granted industrial alcohol for fuel is probably less, but is it cheaper than furnace oil? 
  Alternate energy is like alternate medicine.  Quackery.

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