Maria Cantwell and the rest of the dems are in the pockets of the Sierra Club. Don’t hold your breath. The dems want high gas prices.
The role of money in environmentalism is something many forget as they slam "corporations" for making a profit producing energy and assume the enviros are "not about money." On FOX News, I learned about a business that gets paid money to let trees grow taller (carbon offsets), because bigger trees absorb more greenhouse gases. Its money growing on trees, easy cash.
I bet businesses firms, as they grow larger in the future, will form a large industry that will donate big bucks to Sierra Club and lobby, and the cycle will go on. This cycle is fueled by guilt and ignorance, heartily provided by the MSM. The result? More land in the hands of governments and offset companies, more power to environmnentalist dems, creeping new "earth-centered" pseudo-religion, more power to UN, more grants, more taxes, more resrtrictions. What a system! The gift that keeps on giving.
If we apply the rule ‘follow-the-money’ to environmentalist groups blocking oil development in America, we might think there is a conspiracy going on.
Who benefits monetarily from hindering development of oil in ANWR, and off the American coasts ? Who benefits monetarily from restricting the supply of oil while maintaining control of that supply ? Certainly not American oil companies. Their profit is the difference between what the crude costs and what their products sell for. Their cost for domestic crude is under $20 barrel, and foreign crude is $98 today. Domestic oil is the more profitable oil for them, so they would naturally prefer more domestic production and less having to buy it on the open market.
I would be very surprised if the Sierra Club, Green Peace, et al, did not receive significant money from shell organizations funded by OPEC countries.
Of course, every time oil maintains a high market price for a while, domestic oil companies sink a bunch of money and effort into more domestic production. Capital investment that is very risky because OPEC countries can add capacity and still sell their crude at a profit even if oil was $10 a barrel. OPEC producers do not even need to take an actual loss to kill off American producers.
Yeah, but when folks start FREEZING TO DEATH because the cost of heating oil has outstripped their ability to pay, the Dems won't want the corpses piled on their doorstep. They'll react by saying, "Americans have a RIGHT to heat!" Then they'll tax the hell outta the rest of us so the Dems can buy heating oil for folks that can't afford it, because the same damnable Dems acted to MAKE it so expensive in the FIRST place.
Mark my words: This is nothing less that a never-ending push to gain universal control of EVERY LAST LITTLE THING.
One fine day we might wake up and realize that the only way to stop this is by force of arms. Hopefully, we'll still have some around.