Just yesterday I mentioned the continuing mass of evidence that “global warming” doesn’t exist and that any efforts to affect the patterns of nature are wastes of time, effort and especially, money.
Then yesterday afternoon, I caught a few minutes of Forbes on Fox TV when the topic happened to be, Regina "Gina" McCarthy, new head of the EPA. And whereas the panel is made up of business experts, the general consensus was that climate change is not only a politically motivated ploy, but its costs are astronomical while economic growth is significantly stifled if not completely curtailed.
Since I agree completely with the panel’s conclusions, I looked up Ms. McCarthy’s CV today on Wikipedia and found that she is, “an American public administrator and an environmental health and air quality expert, currently administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She is known for her dedication to "common-sense strategies to protect public health and the environment".
There was also a comment from Daniel Fiorino, director of the Center for Environmental Policy at American University, who said that ‘Her nomination signals that the president really wants to deliver on his State of the Union objectives to take serious action on climate change." He then went on to state that, “Despite speculation that this will affect Obama's decision on the Keystone XL Pipeline, he believes that this doesn't affect the dynamics of the decision significantly as other considerations are paramount, but adds: "she knows air and climate issues very well and she's a very strong environmentalist."
As for myself, having written often about the incumbent’s continually stalling the pipeline for no real reason at all, and coupling that belief with the comments made by the panel on Fox about how much the inanities of the global warming farce costs, I did some further research and found that, according to Steve HargreavesIn of CNN Money: In a report earlier this year, the Brookings Institution put green stimulus spending at $51 billion. From 2009 to 2014, Brookings estimates the federal government will spend over $150 billion from both stimulus and non-stimulus funds on green initiatives.
So, on top of the strangulation of the economy, stifled fiscal growth and the loss of thousands of job opportunities, energy experts also say that “Subsidies for renewable power are particularly problematic, as electricity from wind and solar is still generally more expensive than that from coal or natural gas.”
Furthermore, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and former chief economist at the Labor Department under George W. Bush adds that "It makes companies not want to move here and leaves consumers with less money to spend. It's actually de-stimulative as opposed to stimulative."
And that brings me to the fact that it’s the government that’s supplemented the role of private industry in clean energy funding, which concerns many stimulus critics as well. Because using Solyndra as an example, that Department of Energy Program debacle, expanded under the stimulus package, cost taxpayers over half a billion dollars.
However, although Ms. Furchtgott-Roth believes this “demonstrates that the government doesn't have the expertise to pick winning companies in the fast-moving alternative energy space, especially at the commercialization level," her final thought made the most sense to me of all: “If conservation efforts like home weatherizations made sense, people would do it themselves." She said the same is true for high speed rail and electric cars: "More businesses would invest in these areas if there was greater demand.”
And there we have the crux of the entire matter, because she’s absolutely right. This nation was built by a self-sufficient, free thinking, extremely intelligent population that continually created products, services and solutions to whatever was required at the time. The things that worked well and filled the needs became successful and the rest fell by the wayside as they should.
Government's role was to provide public services, keep the peace and protect the borders.
And for over two hundred years, except for a major depression and a few wars, things went extremely well because the population was left alone to expand and grow. And then this inexperienced, unqualified, misguided zealot came along and turned the entire picture upside down. Personal freedoms shrank, government grew and free enterprise got buried under regulations and taxes.
But the worst part of it all is, that while the nation and its economy are going backward the remedies are glaringly obvious. However, since that would mean reducing the government's power, any kind of real recovery won’t happen at all. Because this administration has no interest in the nation whatsoever, self-serviance and feathering the nests of co-conspirators are all that count.
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
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