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<\/a>By Alan Caruba<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nWhen President Obama announced he would commit the nation to reduce \u201cgreenhouse gas emissions\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident Obama\u2019s announcement marks a critical step forward in our effort to reduce the carbon footprint of the federal government\u2014the largest consumer of energy in the U.S. economy.\u201d For the record, the Capitol building\u2019s electric power is provided by a coal-fired plant. And, for the record, the Speaker\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the President\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
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 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\u2019s 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. In 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 \u201chas essentially caused the production and use of biodiesel in the U.S. to cease\u2026\u201d No kidding!<\/p>\n Speaker Pelosi\u2019s idea of \u201cpreserving our natural resources\u201d is to restrict access to the billions of barrels of oil locked up in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve 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.<\/p>\n While Congress continues on its wild borrowing and spending spree, Speaker Pelosi brags that the Congressional Record will be printed on \u201c100 percent recycled paper\u201d and that Thomas Edison\u2019s incandescent light bulbs will be replaced with \u201cenergy-efficient alternatives\u201d; light bulbs that all contain mercury.<\/p>\n What justification can be made for denying consumers the right to purchase incandescent light bulbs? None!<\/p>\n President Obama has announced that, as soon as \u201cCap-and-Trade\u201d is enacted, the U.S. will begin to \u201ccut carbon emissions by 17% from 2005 levels by 2020.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n The fact that global warming is being discredited daily with new revelations about the bogus \u201cscience\u201d used to justify it by the UN\u2019s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).seems to have escaped the notice of Speaker Pelosi, the President, and others in Congress.<\/p>\n 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 economy of the nation that is totally dependent on the sufficient provision of electrical energy and the ability to utilize the nation\u2019s vast oil, coal, and natural gas reserves, a policy that has been in place since the 1970s.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n This and other proposals are a direct threat to the economy of the nation, diverting billions (of borrowed money) to phony \u201cgreen jobs\u201d and \u201cclean energy.\u201d It is bad news for America.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s capitol with pitchforks and torches to drive out the likes of Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress.<\/p>\n Alan Caruba<\/a> writes a daily post at Warning Signs<\/a>. A business and science writer, he is the founder of The National Anxiety Center<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n Read more thought provoking articles at Warning Signs<\/a><\/p>\n Filed under: 111th Congress<\/a>, America (USA)<\/a>, Barry Soetoro (aka Barack Hussein Obama)<\/a>, Blundering Bureaucrats<\/a>, Climate Alarmists<\/a>, Climate Change<\/a>, Conniving Politicians<\/a>, Democrats<\/a>, Environment<\/a>, Environmental activists<\/a>, Fanatics<\/a>, Fear-mongering<\/a>, Fraud\/Waste<\/a>, Global Warming<\/a>, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a>, Liberals<\/a>, Lily-Livered Liberals<\/a>, Limp-Wrist Liberals<\/a>, Political Prostitutes<\/a>, Politics<\/a>, Power Hungry<\/a>, Propaganda<\/a>, Public Opinion<\/a>, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid<\/a>, Spine Donor Politicians<\/a> Tagged: Alan Caruba<\/a>, Alaska Oil<\/a>, Carbon Cap And Trade Tax<\/a>, Greenhouse Gas Emissions<\/a>, President Obama<\/a>, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)<\/a>, Tony<\/a>, Warning Signs<\/a> By Alan Caruba When President Obama announced he would commit the nation to reduce \u201cgreenhouse gas emissions\u201d 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. \u201cPresident Obama\u2019s announcement marks a critical step forward in our effort to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe so-called clean energy bill is \u201cCap-and-Trade\u201d, 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 \u201cindustries of tomorrow\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"