Beating a Horse I Wish Was Dead

Dear Readers,

Guess what I’m gonna talk about?

Global warming again! Ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!

I don’t care that you’re tired of the topic, readers! I don’t care. I’m tired of the topic, too, we all are, but it’s just not going away! This cap and trade thing, you see, in the United States Senate right now, it could really really do really really bad things for America (not to mention the WORLD!).

Of course I don’t have anything new to add to the conversation, really… what do I know about the way the climate works? What do I know about how the government works? I’m not a global warming scientist- I majored in English and drama at college, and I’m just an AMERICAN PATRIOT WHO LOVES AMERICA!!!

Why can’t we power more of our country with nuclear energy?

Nuclear power works and it does not create CO2 at all, and 80% of France uses nuclear power, so this climate change bill should be focused on getting more nuclear power up and running in the USA, but there must be some money-making conspiracy preventing nuclear power from being created. I don’t buy the reasons the proponents have given for why nuclear power isn’t that great.

Obama put in his FY2010 budget that recently passed that the federal government would make about 640 billion dollars from this cap and trade thing, with an asterisk that says, “It will probably make more.” So, essentially this cap and trade bill is a tax, it’s a way to generate money for the federal government. (here’s a good article about it: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123655590609066021.html ) But they don’t call it a tax because people don’t like the sound of “new taxes,” but they call the cap and trade legislation “a bipartisan innovative solution for making polluters pay for polluting, while encouraging the dawn of a new green economy.” That’s rhetoric, don’t you see? That’s rhetoric used well.

It’s frustrating that this whole cap and trade bill is founded on stopping human-caused global warming, which is not real. Is there any other justification for this type of legislation? I’ve heard it said, “Well, even if global warming isn’t real, which it absolutely is real, but just to humor the wacko skeptics, let’s just say that even if global warming weren’t real, this bill would still 1) help to develop alternative energy, 2) create new jobs, and 3) reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

I refute all three of those claims.

Point 1- it will help develop alternative energy. First, inventors have more often than not come from the private sector. Technological innovations and great works of art usually come from private individuals and companies, not from people receiving a government grant. (Of course there are things like going to the moon realistically that require government sponsorship, but think about the toilet, the flashlight, the computer, the cell phone, the automobile, the train, the airplane- were those things invented by government workers? No. They were they invented by curious men working in their tool sheds and basements and garages and large back yards. Or they were invented and refined by the research and development departments of private businesses. Then private businessmen and businesswomen and investors got the inventions manufactured and distributed.

So, we don’t need government funding to help us develop new forms of alternative energy. All we need government to do is uphold the rule of law and enforce laws that keep the free market working.

Point 2- they say that even if global warming isn’t real, the cap and trade bill will create new jobs. It may create a few green jobs building windmills and solar panels and such, but it will destroy more jobs than it will create. Get this: there’s even a provision in the bill to give unemployment compensation for 3 years to people who lose their jobs because of this bill. So the bill itself recognizes that lots of people are going to be put out of work. Economists have agreed that if this bill passes, many blue-collar manufacturing jobs will be shipped overseas. Small farms and small sawmills and such will either have to increase the price of their products and pass off their new costs to consumers, or they’ll just go out of business.

Point 3- they say that even if global warming isn’t real, the cap and trade bill will reduce our dependence on foreign oil. No, I don’t think it will do that. Even though the price of oil and gas and coal will increase, all that “dirty energy” will still be cheaper, more reliable and more readily available than solar and wind power.

I’m upset about the cap and trade bill, officially titled American Clean Energy and Security act of 2009, if you can’t tell. It makes me even madder than the stimulus bill that recently passed, because at least the stimulus bill was based on a real problem. The cap and trade bill makes me even madder than the bailout of Detroit that George W. Bush recently did. (See, I’m not just blaming Obama and the Democrats. George W. Bush did plenty to grow the size of the federal government, and I don’t like that. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081216215816.8g97981o&show_article=1 Oh, except I agree with more military spending.)

For those of you who are still human-caused global warming believers, here’s a good website: http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html and here’s another good website www.wattsupwiththat.com

And remember those genetically modified insects that excrete crude oil? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece Why do all the legions of scientists who study global warming get grant after grant after grant, while there’s bugs that excrete crude oil that we could be breeding and harnessing? Why aren’t people making synthetic oil from those bugs?

Honestly, I’m a little afraid that even if a new kind of energy were discovered that was cheaper and more efficient and environmentally friendly than anything we’ve ever come up with before, it would be shut down by the government, or maybe by big business, or maybe by the powerful environmental lobbyist groups.

I remember when I was in high school, I learned about the scientist Nikola Tesla, and supposedly he invented a machine that could give free energy to the whole earth, and supposedly either the government or the energy companies shut him down. I don’t know if that’s real or not, but it seems believable. More believable than global warming.

Write or call your senators and tell them to vote no on the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009.

Sincerely,
Telemoonfa