THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XI, Issue # 107, April 19, 2009
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
"CLEAN ENERGY" IS A DIRTY LIE
By Alan Caruba
ENVIRONMENTALISTS, LIBERAL LEFTIST DEMOCRATS, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, & DESTRUCTION OF THE
AMERICAN NATION & ITS ECONOMY: ENVIRONMENTALISM & "DOUBLE THINK" -- THE LIBERAL LEFTIST DEOMOCRATIC
CONGRESS, THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY, & THE ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT COMPLETELY OUT OF TOUCH WITH
REALITY -- "GREEN JOBS," OUTRIGHT LIES, & PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST BELIEFS & POLICIES --
WORKING TO DESTROY AMERICA'S ABILITY TO HAVE & USE THE ENERGY ITS NEEDS FOR NATIONAL SECURITY & SURVIVAL
& FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH & PROSPERITY -- THE DRIVE TO BRING AN END TO AMERICA AS A FREE & SOVEREIGN NATION
FULL STORY:
What does it take to be a dedicated environmentalist — a Green — these days?
“The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” An example
would be a belief in “global warming,” despite the fact that the planet has been cooling for a decade.
“To tell deliberate, lies while genuinely believing in them; to forget any fact that has become inconvenient; and, then,
when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed.” This describes anyone
who says that carbon dioxide (CO2) is responsible for a warming that is not occurring or that this gas could cause it.
“To deny objective reality and, all the while, to take account of the reality which one denies.” This is how Congress can
restrict access to national energy sources — oil, natural gas, and coal — while claiming it wants the USA to be “energy
independent.”
The definition above comes from George Orwell’s 1984 and describes “double think” in his allegory of
Communism.
President Barack Hussein Obama’s environmentalist beliefs and policies are a composite of outright lies, and high on the
list is his promise of “Green jobs.” This is based on his intention to radically transform our society from one in which
energy jobs in areas such as oil production and mining are replaced by those providing wind and solar energy.
The auto industry is getting a makeover as General Motors brands that sell well are forced by government fiat to be
abandoned for those that few people want or can afford.
Regarding socalled Green jobs, Thomas J. Pyle, President of the Institute for Energy Research, recently pointed out that
a study in Spain, which was released in late March, 2009, made clear: “Spain has spent billions in taxpayer resources to
subsidize renewable energy programs in an effort to jumpstart its ailing economy, and what they have gotten in return
are fewer jobs, skyrocketing debt, and some of the highest and most regressive energy prices in the developed world.”
The lies Greens are telling, whether in Spain are here in the U.S.A., always produce the same results. For every “Green
job” created by the Spanish government over the past decade, 2.2 other jobs were destroyed as a result. To not expect
the same result here in America is to be willfully ignorant.
All the talk of “clean energy,” wind and solar, is now shifting into high gear with the introduction of the
Waxman-Markey legislation on March 31, 2009. It is touted as “a new direction for America’s clean energy future and
fighting global warming.” At the risk of being repetitive, there is NO global warming. The Earth is now ten years into a
cooling cycle.
This is possibly the most dreadful piece of legislation to be put before Congress in the history of the nation. It is the
deliberate reordering of American society because, without adequate energy, the economy will implode and the
lifestyles that Americans take for granted, all based on affordable electricity and fuel for transportation, will cease to
exist.
It is based entirely on the “global warming” lie. It is based entirely on the lie that carbon dioxide (CO2) is the driving
force behind “climate change.”
Clean jobs are just one more of the endless lies that Greens tell in order to put an end to America’s capacity to compete
in the global marketplace.
Clean energy is the term applied to wind and solar energy, deemed “renewable,” amidst more lies about the oil and coal
which most surely will neither be renewable nor even available if Congress and the White House continue to put the
national lands under which they exist off limits to all exploration and extraction.
Totally supported by government subsidies and mandates for their use, wind and solar energy represents barely one
percent of the electricity Americans use every day.
In countless ways, the Greens are working to destroy America’s ability to have the energy it needs to survive and grow.
Our economy, already suffering from government mandates that destroyed the nation’s housing market, will utterly
collapse when it can no longer access the energy required for the future.
Clean energy is a dirty lie.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
The Earth's Natural History, Global Climate Changes,
& the Future of Human Life & Civilization on the Planet:
Science, Ideology, & Public Policy
Alan Caruba is a veteran business, science and political 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 2009
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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