The Great U.S. Kool-Aid Energy Plan
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
There is daily proof that the global warming crowd has much in common with the Jim Jones commune. They both drank the kool-aid and they both faithfully and blindly followed the edicts of their father figure (the warmers have more than one).
The latest example which got my attention came from Henry Waxman, U.S. House Energy and Commerce committee chairman. He was recently heard fulminating over a proposed TransCanada Corp. pipeline project which would transport oil sands crude directly to Gulf coast refineries. He said, “This pipeline is a multi-billion dollar investment to expand our reliance on the dirtiest source of transportation fuel available…” and that, it did not support moves to combat climate change.
Now there are two schools of thought on the urgency of reducing U.S. oil consumption. One is the notion that increasing dependency on hostile supplier states is strategically dangerous. Amen to that, and a logically pursued reduction of that dependency makes all the sense in the world. It will help avoid the credible future scenario that sees the U.S. having to abandon an ally to the dogs of jihad, simply because to do otherwise would result in economic chaos.
The other school of thought is the climate change blather being emitted by Waxman. But, even if Waxman believed both scenarios to be true, the position he preaches increases the suspicion that he has been drinking somebody’s spiked kool-aid. If the dependency issue is valid, then the last thing this wacko should be doing is agitating against the secure resources of a steadfast ally like Canada. If you won’t use an ally’s crude reserves to diminish your guzzling of middle eastern oil, and your father figure is giving speeches against off-shore drilling, then the only way you might reduce dependency is by freezing (or sweating like Toronto) in the dark.
But if you really believe in the climate change lunacy, then I would suggest a clear-headed appraisal of you current consumption; the rate at which it is being replaced by non-carbon-based energy; and, the point in the distant future at which you will be safe to cast stones in your feeble glass house. Until then, the sort of political grandstanding done by assholes like Waxman, shows them to be dangerously unclear on the concept, and unqualified to chair a knitting committee.