Is it moral to cause
people to starve in Africa, because you prefer to burn corn for fuel here in
America?
Is it moral to have as a
goal to create regulations that drive energy and electricity costs up with the
poor being disproportionately harmed?
Or, is it moral to
invest and produce domestic energy that lowers energy costs for all, which
obviates the need for burning food for fuel?
If you answered the
latter, welcome to supporting the free enterprise approach to wealth creation
that lifts all boats rather than the green agenda designed to exacerbate energy
poverty around the world.
Over the course of the
past five to seven years, America has been on the precipice of an unprecedented
energy revolution that would drive costs for electricity down, creating a
virtuous economic cycle fueled by increased manufacturing sector growth and the
resulting high paying jobs.
The sticking point has
been President Obama’s radical environmental regulatory agenda. An agenda
that is less about climate change, and more about fundamental economic
transformation. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, stated as much when at a recent
conference in Brussels she said, “This is the first time in the history of
mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a
defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been
reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.”
When viewed through the
rubric of this admission that climate regulations are really about displacing
capitalism as the dominant economic system, then it is understandable why
President Obama persists in pursuing limited value regulations that destroy
America’s opportunity to maintain our position as the dominant economic power
in the world.
Whether it be an oil
pipeline running across the Canadian border, or the oil and natural gas miracle
produced by ingenuity, private investment and hard work that has led to an
abundance beyond any futurists imagination, to Obama and the radical greens,
they are threats that must be stopped.
The immorality of
choosing transformation to an economic system that thrives on the theft of both
intellectual and personal property in order to give it to someone who is more
politically favored over one that breeds good jobs and hope for people of all
economic classes is obvious.
Yet, these greenies who
worship at the altar of the goddess Gaia and justify spiking trees and
jeopardizing lives to stop timbering, have somehow become perceived as the
idealistically moral, while those who fight to preserve a system that has made
America the greatest nation to ever exist on the earth are vilified.
It is Harold Hamm of
Continental Resources, and others like him who have risked, cried and fought to
find a way to extract oil and natural gas from shale at an affordable cost,
bringing it to market and driving prices of energy down who are the heroes.
They have been the ones
whose actions based upon a desire to make a profit, have stimulated the economy
through less expensive gasoline and lower costs for natural gas fueled
electricity generation. The prime beneficiaries of these cost savings are
millions of families who have not seen their wages go up for years, but now pay
less for the gasoline in their car.
Unfortunately, it is
these same families who have not benefitted from lower electricity bills, as
Obama’s climate cops have forced more than 72
gigawatts of electricity to be
taken off line, negating the energy supply advantage by destroying the
electricity suppliers.
When a family needs to
heat their home and wants to buy a wood burning stove, Obama’s EPA jihadists
will have removed all but the most expensive alternatives from the marketplace
due to a wood burning regulation.
And Obama’s power plant
rule is expected to increase electricity costs by 16 percent in spite of our
nation’s energy abundance with the poorest consumers bearing the brunt of the
cost burden both in personal home heating and the lack of job opportunities as
the manufacturing boom is stymied.
The green agenda is
nothing more or less than an attack on America’s poorest citizens by those who
envy our nation’s wealth and want to transfer it overseas, no matter who gets
hurt.
This is the green
immorality, and it is time that people recognize it as just that.
The author is the
president of Americans for Limited Government.
http://netrightdaily.com/2015/09/big-greens-immorality/
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