McCain’s Energy Plan: Correct Diagnosis, Killer Prescription
let me see if I have this straight.
1. We should be the only country on the planet to not use existing natural resources to fuel our energy needs because it might diminish our quest for some alternatives.
2. Cap and trade is for some reason a good thing – presumably because it raises the cost of everything, making us less competitive and thus gives us an incentive to search for alternatives.We should ignore the fact that this puts billions in the hands of our political elite to “invest” wisely as they have done with ethanol – creating no energy but facilitating global hunger.
3. We should substantially reduce our standard of living because it will save some fraction of a degree in warming some 50 years out. I guess that we should ignore the fact that there has been no warming this decade.The fact that this negatively impacts most the poor and those in rural America is irrelevant versus the greater good.
4. We should ignore the positive impacts of national energy exploitation on the economy,employment and security as this is clearly not in the common good.
In spite of your reasoned article, I remain very substantially unconvinced. In fact I believe this approach to be an excellent recipe for economic suicide.
By the way, glossing over the informed opposition or questioning of the global warming theology is just plain dishonest.
