THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume X, Issue # 330, December 15, 2008
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
THE LIAR-ELECT & THE DEATH OF AMERICA
By Alan Caruba
ENVIRONMENTALISM, STATISM, & THE COMING OBAMA PRESIDENCY: ECONOMIC CHAOS & DISASTER -- THE
"CHANGE" THAT PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA WILL BRING TO THE U.S.A. -- THE SLOW DEATH OF THE
WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL NATION, ECONOMICALLY & MILITARILY
FULL STORY:
Let’s understand something fundamental to everyone’s life in America and to the entire economy. We are not “addicted” to
oil. Like all developed, modern nations, we use oil as a valuable resource for transportation, as the basis of plastics, and for
a thousand uses from asphalt to Vaseline. We are not “addicted” to oil because it is essential to modern civilization
everywhere.
Just because President George W. Bush, whose family fortune was built on the oil industry, and now Barack Hussein Obama,
President-elect, says we are addicted does not make that true, but Obama goes way beyond that statement to claim, as he did
in naming his energy and environmental team, that the world is running out of oil. That, too, is a lie.
The reason America must import oil is that, starting with President James Earl "Jimmy" Carter and in league with the U.S.
Congress, access to our own billions of barrels of oil have been forbidden by our lawmakers. We have the oil. Our oil industry
is not allowed to explore for it or extract it.
Similarly, to suggest that, somehow, a nation that depends on its own abundant resources of coal for half of all the electricity
generated should abandon that source of power in favor of solar or wind borders on either madness or deliberate duplicity or
both.
In all of the world, solar and wind accounts, as it does in the U.S.A., for barely one percent of all the electricity generated.
Together, solar and wind energy represents the single most inefficient, unpredictable, and unaffordable “energy alternative”
that exists today. Solar and wind rank with ethanol as yet another bogus solution to “sustainability.”
As President-Elect Obama introduced his energy and environmental team, all I saw was a lethal combination of ideologues
and academics, all dedicated to a program of national suicide based on decades of lies about the actual science of climate
change and energy use.
The notion that the United States should sign onto and accept the limitations on energy use incorporated in the Kyoto
Protocol is yet another lie. On July 25, 1997, the U.S. Senate passed a unanimous resolution refusing to accept the treaty,
and even the Clinton-Gore team, when in office, never offered it to the Senate for consideration.
But the Obama administration will send the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate, which, currently dominated by environmentalist
loonies such as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the utterly deluded Senator John McCain and others, will ratify the
treaty.
The United Nations Kyoto Protocol is based on the global warming hoax. The fate of the United States will be tied to
something that is not happening!
There is no need to limit “greenhouse gas emissions” because carbon dioxide plays virtually no role whatever in climate
change. Fully 98% of CO2 is absorbed by the Earth.
The cost of our use of every form of energy will rise, based on climate claims that are lies. A nation that is already
wounded by the collapse of our financial system will be pushed further into the grave by such a measure. And Obama must
surely know this.
That the President-Elect could stand before Americans and claim that we are seeing increased famines, face rising oceans,
and fiercer storms -- and not be challenged -- is obscene.
And he will not be challenged by what has formerly been the bulwark of our constitutional democratic republic, the nation’s
press. It is the nation’s press that has spread the lies of the environmentalist movement since the days of Rachel Carson’s
screed against the use of any and all chemicals.
Those who witnessed the introduction of the Obama energy and environmental team witnessed the beginning of the most
aggressive attack on the nation’s coal industry, oil and natural gas industry, and nuclear industry. When you control energy use,
you control every other aspect of life in the nation.
As the oppression gains, and as restriction upon restriction piles up, there will be fewer trucks on the nation’s highways to
deliver goods. It has already begun in California, with literally insane restrictions on trucks using diesel. As goods become
difficult to deliver, the nation’s economy will suffer further.
Life in America is going to become very grim.
The nation’s financial troubles will begin to pale as the U.S. central government enacts more and more restrictions, even as
the government presently demands authority to decide what kind of cars Detroit auto manufacturers must make to receive
an ill-conceived bailout. New industries and those seeking to expand will encounter obstacles. Already, multinational
industries such as Foster-Wheeler, Tyco and Transocean International, formerly with headquarters in America, have left.
Others will follow.
That is the “change” the Liar-Elect will bring. It is the slow death of the most powerful nation, economically and militarily, on
Earth -- and only our enemies will cheer on the death of America.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
The Earth's Natural History, Global Climate Changes,
& the Future of Human Life & Civilization on the Planet:
Science, Ideology, & Public Policy
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba has a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
Caruba’s most recent book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press. Books
previously authored by Caruba include A Pocket Guide to Militant Islam, The United Nations Versus the United States: The
UN's Plan to Control Planet Earth, and America: A Nation Without Borders -- A Pocket Guide to Immigration Issues.
© Alan Caruba 2008
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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