The Law of Unintended Consequences
The Bear on Apr 30 2008 at 8:31 am | Filed under: Energy Policy
I have always maintained that the basic differences between Liberals and Conservatives are living in the world of reality and La La Land. A Liberal starts out every sentence and idea with these words, ”Wouldn’t it be nice if….” This prefix explains how all entitlement programs are born.
Wouldn’t it be nice if…
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We all had the best Health Care that money could buy and the government paid for it
We all lived in mansion with a ten car garage and had a car for every occasion.
And we all had our own private Bud Lite beer truck.
Sounds good to me except when you return to the world of reality and start thinking about it, question will start to arise.
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How can we do this and can we afford it? And if we do this will our children inherit a country that is bankrupt? What will be the consequences and long range ramifications from the actions we take today?
Thus explains the difference between the Loose Cannons and conservatives.
In April 2006 Nancy Pelosi (who has the I.Q. of a peanut incapable of anything other than partisanship politics) said if the Democrats get control of Congress in the upcoming election they will do something about oil and gas prices. Well, she was sure right about doing something… because we have seen prices rise some 40 to 50% under her leadership.
The next brilliant idea under her leadership was the 2007 Energy Bill which mandated the use of more ethanol. Milton Friedman once said,…
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“One of the great mistakes is to judge (LIBERAL) policies and programs by their intentions rather than their (Unintended Consequences) results.” - (Emphasis added)
In this linked article Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson admits that Congress has made a terrible mistake and is calling for Undoing America’s Ethanol Mistake.
She Said, …
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When Congress passed legislation to greatly expand America’s commitment to biofuels, it intended to create energy independence and protect the environment.
But the results have been quite different. America remains equally dependent on foreign sources of energy, and new evidence suggests that ethanol is causing great harm to the environment.
The Bottom Line – Undoubtedly the Liberal Congress headed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has created a two-headed monster with this legislation. We burn 1/3 of our corn supplies in fuel tanks at a cost greater than gasoline but in addition there is a gold rush by farmers throughout the world to create new farm lands from forest because corn has tripled in price from (round numbers) $2 /bushel to $6 /bushel.
But to call it a mistake, I am not so sure.
Has it not been part of the Democratic Liberal Playbook to put surtax on gas to force reductions in consumption? Haven’t they always been against drilling for oil, nuclear energy and literally tied the hands of those who develop fossil fuel? Is this not an agenda to bring the masses to their knees to empower the almighty government with more power to look for a solution?
And as far as looking for this bill/mandate to be repelled in the near future, don’t bet on it. Politicians don’t admit to making mistakes, they will pass a patch or two to the bill and celebrate their energy foresight. But this will only happen after they find a straw man to blame, anyone but thou.
Anyone for Term Limits?
SideBear: Nancy P. and her cohorts in Congress reminds me of Dorothy in the Wizard of OZ as she traveled down the Yellow Brick Road with her friend the Scarecrow and they sang……”IF I Only Had A Brain.”
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The Biofuels Disaster Must End By Phil Kerpen & James Valvo
Big-government, command-and-control technocrats believe that when central planning fails, the solution is a better plan and smarter planners. They never step back and look at whether planning makes sense in the first place. This was true of the Soviet Union, with tragic five-year plan after five-year plan. It was true of Communist China, with Mao’s revolutionary upheavals. And today, here in the United States, it is true of government energy policy.
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