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David
Karki
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March 11, 2009
Oppose the Green
Agenda, or Surrender Your Freedom
Nowhere is the Obama
Administration's hubris more apparent than energy policy. They
apparently think they can wave a magic wand and change the laws of
physics and economics. From corporate average fuel economy (CAFE)
standards on vehicles to solar and wind power, they honestly believe
they can just order new, efficient and profitable technologies into
existence, as easily as flipping a switch.
The cold, hard reality
will hit home in several different forms:
We will see much
higher energy prices, which will serve as a massive tax increase on
everyone and everything, dwarfing anything being contemplated within the
context of budget negotiations. The idea that we can simply be forced
away from the oil and coal, which provide cheap, plentiful energy and
onto unproven, less effective, more expensive technologies for which
there isn't yet infrastructure much less do so without significant
economic impact and hardship is sheer lunacy.
The cost of energy is a
factor in everything, from raw materials to manufacturing to
distribution to sales to consumption. Anything that raises it will
result in a ripple effect that will exponentially multiply the cost of
business and living.
Expect the effective
outlawing of entire vehicle classes that can't possibly hope to reach
the CAFE fuel-efficiency standards that Obama and his EPA will order,
the unchangeable truths of science notwithstanding. Kiss those SUVs
goodbye and get ready to drive nothing but mini-Coopers around. (Though
without bigger vehicles to compare against, we may just have to call
them Coopers from now on.) Oh, they won't be prohibited per se, thus
allowing phony deniability on Obama's part, but when it won't be
possible to manufacture anything else thanks to their ridiculous mileage
regulations, they'll be gone.
And get ready to see
more people be killed in crashes, as the tiny, lightweight cars forced
upon us will crush like so many soda cans upon impact.
We will
experience the lowering of standards of living and a direct assault on
suburbia, as it will be much harder to live in a larger single-family
home in a more outlying development when the combined cost of heat,
electricity and fuel for vehicles will be totally unaffordable.
But hey, at least we'll
have a clean, green environment. So what if we have to sacrifice
personal liberty, lower our standards of living and pay tons more for
everything?
The Obama
Administration and the radical greenies whose bidding they're doing
don't care at all about the impact of this lunacy they call an energy
policy. Actually, their policy is simple they're against energy. We
have more oil under our land and seas, from ANWR to off-shore to shale
oil in the Rockies, than we know. And America is the Saudi Arabia of
coal. We're positively lousy with the stuff. Both substances are
inexpensive and make a modern lifestyle possible for even those of
limited means.
And don't even start
with nuclear power plants. Even though California is already at the
point of rolling blackouts when it gets hot in the summer and demand for
air conditioning spikes electricity use, you can't get any more of the
cleanest form of power plant built at all. So just where are we supposed
to get sufficient power to serve a growing population?
Naturally, Obama and
environmental activists want to outlaw via regulatory fiat all three
oil, coal and nuclear. We'd be the only nation on Earth that would put
its domestic energy supplies completely off-limits. And then put all our
faith, hope and without question money into millions of acres of
windmills, solar panels and corn for ethanol. God help us if it's cloudy
and still a lot of the time . . .
The time for passive
neutrality has passed. If you want to keep your standard of living at
the level it has been and not be effectively sent back to the 18th
Century, if you want to be able to choose to buy an SUV so you won't get
squished in something fit only for parading Shriners, if you want to
live in a suburban home and drive instead of an inner-city high-rise
next to a billion-dollar train, if you want to retain any element of
freedom and control over your existence and not be reduced to a level
where animals and plants are considered higher forms of life, then you
need to actively oppose the environmentalist agenda.
Make no mistake they
are determined to remake society in their totalitarian, tree-hugging
image, consequences to humanity be damned. (Even as they hypocritically
keep these vestiges for themselves, from Speaker Pelosi's jet to Obama's
limousine fleet.) And for whatever they can't get past a Senate
filibuster, Obama will issue an executive order or his EPA will write a
new regulation in essence, a green dictatorship.
Simply to force a
stalemate, we must get up and fight, matching their effort and ferocity.
To keep the life of
freedom we've come to know and love, and to make it available to many
more by accessing all of the plentiful, inexpensive energy that lies
waiting for us, we will have to exceed the determination of those who
honestly think we're all going to die from global warming should they
not get their way.
The only thing that
would be so lethal is allowing these lunatics to realize their twisted
goals. They are the real danger here, not the fraudulent crisis that
exists only in their human and freedom-hating minds.
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