THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XII, Issue # 23, February 3, 2010
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
CRAZY NANCY, CUNNING BARACK
By Alan Caruba
THE ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AGENDA OF THE ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT, THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION, & THE U.S. CONGRESS UNDER THE LEADERSHIP & CONTROL OF LIBERAL LEFTIST DEMOCRATS:
A POLICY AGENDA CALCULATED BY THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS & POLITICAL LEFT TO DENY THE U.S.A. ACCESS TO THE
ENERGY REQUIRED FOR PRESENT & FUTURE GENERATIONS OF AMERICANS -- AN AGENDA INTENDED TO UNDERMINE THE
AMERICAN ECONOMY & U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY
FULL STORY:
When President Obama announced he would commit the nation to reduce “greenhouse gas emissions” in accordance with
the failed UN Copenhagen Climate Change Conference goals, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, issued yet another utterly
crazed statement on January 29th.
“President Obama’s announcement marks a critical step
forward in our effort to reduce the carbon footprint of
the federal government — the largest consumer of
energy in the U.S. economy.”
For the record, the Capitol building’s electric power is provided by a coal-fired plant. And, for the record, the Speaker’s use
of an executive jet to travel back and forth from her home in California every week has burned through $2.1 million, while
producing tons of greenhouse gases.
“With the President’s renewed call to complete work
on a clean energy bill this year, we look forward to
putting people to work building up the industries of
tomorrow, reducing our dangerous dependence on
foreign oil, and preserving our natural resources for
generations to come.”
Allowing large and small oil companies to explore and extract our national reserves of oil would reduce our dependency, but,
from the late 1970s onward, it has been U.S. government policy to prohibit this, despite the role it plays in our national
security and, of course, the cost of a gallon of gas at the pump. There’s a reason much of our military power is deployed to
protect Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States in the Middle East. We get 40% of our oil from there.
The socalled clean energy bill is “Cap-and-Trade,” a piece of legislation that would tax the use of energy by all Americans,
thus raising their energy bills and reducing their ability to spend their money on consumer goods and services. The alleged
“industries of tomorrow” include wind and solar energy companies, along with biofuel companies, all of which are totally
dependent on government subsidies and mandates for their use. Remove the subsidies and they would go out of business.
A February 2nd letter from the National Biodiesel Board to leaders in Congress says that the expiration of the biodiesel tax
incentive that expired on December 31, 2009, “has essentially caused the production and use of biodiesel in the U.S. to
cease....” No kidding!
Speaker Pelosi’s idea of “preserving our natural resources” is to restrict access to the billions of barrels of oil locked up in
the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and to continue the ban on all off-shore exploration and extraction of
countless billions of barrels of oil and cubic feet of natural gas estimated to exist in the 85% of the continental shelf that
remain off limits.
While Congress continues on its wild borrowing and spending spree, Speaker Pelosi brags that the Congressional
Record will be printed on “100 percent recycled paper” and that Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulbs will be
replaced with “energy-efficient alternatives” -- light bulbs that contain mercury.
What justification can be made for denying consumers the right to purchase incandescent light bulbs? None!
President Obama has announced that, as soon as “Cap-and-Trade” is enacted, the U.S. will begin to “cut carbon emissions
by 17% from 2005 levels by 2020.” To achieve this, we will all return to the practice of riding horses and using oxen to plow
the fields for the planting of crops.
The fact that global warming theory is being discredited daily with new revelations about the bogus “science” used to
justify it by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).seems to have escaped the notice of Speaker
Pelosi, the President, and others in Congress.
What Americans are witnessing is a calculated agenda to undermine access to the energy the nation requires for present
and future generations and thus undermines the nation's economy, an econpmy that is totally dependent on the sufficient
provision of electrical energy and the ability to utilize the nation’s vast oil, coal, and natural gas reserves. This calculated
agenda of the environmwntalist movement and political Left has been around as U.S. energy and environmental policy
since the 1970s.
In his State of the Union speech, the President did call for more nuclear plants, but the government has stalled the building
of all but two new nuclear plants since the 1970s and, thanks to Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, is unable to utilize the
multi-billion dollar Yukka Mountain facility in Nevada for the storage of nuclear waste.
This and other proposals are a direct threat to the economy of the American nation, diverting billions (of borrowed money)
to phony “green jobs” and “clean energy.” It is bad news for America.
In September of last year, nearly a million Americans showed up in Washington, D.C., to protest healthcare reform, and it is
a wonder of civility that they and others have not returned to the nation’s capitol with pitchforks and torches to drive out
the likes of Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
The Earth's Natural History, Global Climate Changes,
& the Future of Human Life & Civilization on the Planet:
Science, Ideology, & Public Policy
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, commentator and business and science writer,
he is the Founder of The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about "scare campaigns" designed to influence
public opinion and policy.
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