A Country At Mercy Of Environmentalists By WALTER E. WILLIAMS
The Bear on Jul 31 2008 at 8:28 am | Filed under: Energy Policy
Let’s face it. The average individual American has little or no clout with Congress and can be safely ignored. But it’s a different story with groups such as the Environmental Defense Fund, Sierra Club and Nature Conservancy.
When they speak, Congress listens. Unlike the average American, they are well organized, loaded with cash and well positioned to be a disobedient congressman’s worse nightmare. Their political and economic success has been a near disaster for our nation.
For several decades, environmentalists have managed to get Congress to keep most of our oil resources off-limits to exploration and drilling.
They’ve managed to have the Congress enact onerous regulations that have made refinery construction impossible.
Similarly, they’ve used the courts and Congress to completely stymie the construction of nuclear power plants. As a result, energy prices are at historical highs and threaten our economy and national security.
What’s the political response to our energy problems? It’s more congressional and White House kowtowing to environmentalists, farmers and multibillion-dollar corporations such as Archer Daniels Midland.
Their “solution,” rather than to solve our oil supply problem by permitting drilling for the billions upon billions of barrels of oil beneath the surface of our country, is to enact the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. That mandates that oil companies increase the amount of ethanol mixed with gasoline.
Anyone with an ounce of brains would have realized that diverting crops from food to fuel use would raise the prices…
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In this game of politics there are SWORDS (taxes, regulations,hearings,smear campaigns), SHIELDS (Regulations, media distortions, tax shelters) and SPELLS(manipulating facts to fool the public,wild and broken promises).
The time to stand up and fight is now! Americans have the power to crush this tyranny by both their wallets and their votes!
The in-balance that has been created by these environmental groups threatens to collapse our economy and is hurting us all, dooming our children’s futures, and this cannot be allowed by the American people.
Nancy Pelosi is powerless against the will of the people and we will not relent! Support candidates this November that realize what is needed and will return to representing the people!