Put The Blame Where It Belongs ( Environmentalists! )

humanevents.com ^ | 05/02/2008 | Michael Reagan

[kellynla]

In case you haven't noticed, gas prices are soaring, hiking the cost of food and just about everything else. If you believe Hillary Clinton, the blame for all this lies on the shoulders of those greedy oil companies and their bloated profit margins, a notion that like just about every other snake-oil remedy she tries to peddle is simply not the case.

We're in the mess in which we find ourselves because of a small handful of people with the money and the power to inflict grievous harm on their fellow humans, whom they just happen to despise.

It's about time for you and your fellow Americans to know just who they are and wh at they are doing to all of us in the name of saving the planet that for millions of years has shown to be perfectly capable of saving itself without their help.

If you are really sick and tired of $4.00 gasoline, really sick of being dependent on foreign oil, and equally as sick of seeing your food bills go up, the conventional wisdom would lead you to blame the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. But that's a waste of time, as is blaming George Bush or the oil companies.

None of them make environmental policy. That policy is set by three individuals two who are located in New York City. If you want to drill in Alaska or the Gulf of Mexico or in the continental U.S. -- where billions of gallons of petroleum are just waiting to be tapped -- or build refineries, these three people stand in your way.

They are John Flicker of the National Audubon Society, Frances Beinecke of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Trip Van Noppen of the organizat ion Earthjustice.

Flicker and Beinecke both live and work in New York City where they probably don't own cars, and they are happy that you have to spend more and more of your budget on food and fuel. You are being punished for being Americans.

Van Noppen runs Earthjustice from Oakland, California. None of these three is in touch with America. They hate America, they hate you. And they want your gas to cost $8.00 a gallon.

Earlier this year they filed a lawsuit to prevent drilling for oil and natural gas in Alaska. This is just a leading tactic in their arsenal. All of you need to call these three and demand that they get out of the way and stop impeding our rights to find and drill for petroleum here in North America. After all, if the Chinese are drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, shouldn't we be allowed to do so too?

They must be made to feel pressure -- the pressure you feel every day when you juggle your budget to cope with ri sing prices. These three people set energy policy in this country. They order Reid and Pelosi to do their bidding, and thanks to them and their allies in the radical environmental movement we are getting economically weaker.

Call John Flicker at the Audubon Society at (212) 979-3000.

Call Frances Beinecke at the NRDC at (212) 727-2700.

Call Trip Van Noppen at Earthjustice at (510) 550-6700.

One more thing. I wrote earlier that the environmental extremists hate humanity, they think there are too many of us, and they won't be happy until an awful lot of us are gone.

Most won't say it, but here's what two of them are quoted as saying in Johah Goldberg's book "Liberal Fascism." "When Charles Wurster, chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund was told that banning DDT would probably result in millions of deaths he replied 'This is as good a way to get rid of them as any." And a million did die.

Finnish environmental guru Pentti Linkola "argues that the earth is a sinking ship, and a chosen remnant must head for the lifeboats. Said Linkola, 'Those who hate life try to pull more people on board and drown everybody. Those who love and respect life use axes to chops off extra hands hanging on the gunwale.'"

Beware of environmentalists bearing axes.

[dalebert]

good read

[MCCRon58]

Calling and talking to these fools will do little or no good. It is not until their neighbors refuse to serve them at the local Star-bucks. Refuse to associate with them, or their families. Scorn and ridicule them whenever they appear in public. Basically refuse to acknowledge them as a useful or desirable member of the human family.

There is a reason “shunning” and its threat was such a powerful governor on behavior in past times. A person who condones harmful behavior in a community hazards their right to be considered an upstanding member of that community.

[littlehouse36]

Environmentalists are just mutated communists. They are after our souls and our dignity, and most of them don’t even know it.

[sono]

I blame Jackson Browne.

[Piquaboy]

And the only thing we can do about it is bitch. We have billions barrels of oil in North Dakota and cannot drill for it because of the big Rat collection of a-holes,

[Dick Bachert]

Back during the Carter MALadministration — when old peanut brain was doing TV spots suggesting that we put paper bags over our heads to stay warm (I suggested he use a PLASTIC bag but he never did ) — a gallows humor joke circulated that the environazis would be pleased for the rest of us to “shiver in the dark.” (They, like Algore, would, of course, be exempt from all of that.)

I guess their new mantra is that we ought to “shiver and STARVE in the dark.”

[Let's Roll]

Yes, but I mean they could be right and it's just too important to take a chance on not doing something ... yada, yada.

I've even heard that line parroted in a tv drama when kids were talking to their parents about what they were learning in school. That was the last time I watched and the show is history now.

[Thebaddog]

Trip's wife is a trip in her own right. Rivka Gordon will handle your reproductive rights while her husband fights new coal mining operations for you. They are the classic moonbeam family.

[The Great RJ]

These idiots are just the heads of the hydra. Without a sympathetic press, politicians willing to use their ideas for their own political purposes and a public almost totally ignorant of science and basic economics they could not wield the political clout they have in this country.

[jonrick46]

These environweenies are con men on the same level as Jerimiah “the Bullfrog” Wright. Their only concern is how many they can dupe to live the Fat Rat lifestyle.

[rockinqsranch]

I’ll post it again for those that missed the first two times I posted this.

Following link is to an article posted by NeverDem awhile ago, and then following that I post a response I received from an extreme Liberal Elementary School teacher whom happens to be a member of the Audubon Society.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998290/posts

My post to Neverdem: “I forwarded this article the evening it was posted to many. Yesterday I was too busy to look at my email, but tonight I found the following response dated yesterday to the forwarded article from a babbling Leftist relative I had no intention of sending the article to, but inadvertantly did. The response should be enough to illustrate as to why I normally don’t bother.”

The response from Leftist School Teacher, Bird Watcher: “I find it hard to believe that 90 plus percent of the scientists in our country and the rest of the world are a bunch on ninnys that haven’t considered everything this man is saying before coming to the conclusion that we humans are contributing way more of our share of greenhouse gasses and creating a situation that is moving faster than Mother Nature can remedy in a manner that won’t be very uncomfortable for quite a few folks. In our own studies over the years, John and I have seen many bird species totally wiped out because of human disregard. Yes, in hundreds or thousands of years “Mother” will be able to fix everything, but we humans will most likely not enjoy the fixes.....but, frankly, that’s ok by me. There are too many of us already.

Should anyone disbelieve the Leftist’s radical attitude towards humanity vs. their cause of saving “Mother Earth”, this response should leave no doubt as to their loyalty.

[SERKIT]

My Energy Manifesto:

* Cease all ethanol production. It requires more energy to make than it yields and the unintended consequence is higher food costs. Corn production shifted from feed-corn to subsidized corn for ethanol. Just say "no" to ethanol!

* Immediately create only ONE "blend" of gasoline and cease regional blends which are stupid, costly, and meaningless. Even if this is the "cleanest" blend, just make it ONE and be done with it. Trucking custom blends around the country is wasteful.

* Drill for oil in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and other sites in the CONUS as a matter of national security.

* Construct state-of-the-art refineries and/or retrofit current and dormant ones and crank up production.

* Make all “carbon credit” scams unlawful.

* Construct SEVERAL, regional Pebble-Bed Reactors (or other similar designs) that are not considered "breeders", are rechargeable, and cleaner than any current nuclear generator design.

* Use the residual heat from the reactor above to process motor fuel from coal and/or shale. Even though Clinton "stole" some of the best coal reserves, we still have a lot to use.

* Have Iraq pay for its freedom, and maybe even pay us back for their freedom. We'll still need their oil.

* Bust up the cartels or at least be independent enough to make the cartels inconsequential.

* Convince local taxing bodies to lift or fix the sales tax on gasoline so that as gas prices go up, the local tax collectors don’t see a windfall revenue jump at the expense of the consumer.

[Carry_Okie]

Michael Reagan is clueless. The enviro-racketeering scam is funded primarily by the OWNERS of oil company stock and always has been.

[aruanan]

Leftist School Teacher, Bird Watcher, is a loon.

[enviros_kill]

Read The Greenie Watch each day for the latest on the imploding global warming scam. Retired PhD in Australia does a great job collecting articles and reposting that NEVER make it to the BS same-stream media in the U.S.

http://antigreen.blogspot.com/

[Publius6961]

Put The Blame Where It Belongs ( Environmentalists! )

NO!

Politicians. Brain-dead judges.
Politicians and the courts enable every flavor of nutcase.

Without successful Rent Seeking (look it up) activists would simply be a bunch of dorky losers without a clue.
The dumb-as-rocks bugs and bunny crowd would just be a laughable bunch of really weird humans.

Just saying...

[HerrBlucher]

“There are too many people” is the single most repeated statement I hear from libs when I discuss environmental issues with them. I have never heard one of them offer to volunteer to remove themselves from the planet to help out, they want others do die off en masse. Modern day liberals have the mindset of Nazi’s, and that is NOT hypberbole, as this article points out.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

People REALLY need to get realistic about the ability of domestic production to reduce our need for imported oil for example, here's the input from full exploitation of ANWR:

the reason ANWR and other domestic sources of liquid petroleum make so little difference is that under any realistic scenario imports account for an increasing majority of US oil production:

This is coupled with a situation is which world oil demand is rising in excess of realistic production estimates, both mid and long term:

The result is rising prices, and to blame those who wish to limit domestic production may feel very satisfyingly but has very little to do with solution to the problem: that in a world where US demand is a increasingly smaller portion of total requirements increasing prices are going to significantly curtail the rate at which demand rises irrespective of domestic production.

And that means that means that business as usual is this country – cheap oil and profligate consumption – are over for good, and the sooner that we realize that we cannot “produce our way out” of this situation in anything that looks much like our current energy regimen, the sooner we will start realistic discussion of the alternatives.

[kellynla]

You might want to address your energy concerns with “thackney” since he knows a heck of a lot more about this subject than I.

I do know that if we can put a man on the moon, we sure as heck can become “energy independent!”

[Tzimisce]

Good read.

[henkster]

Your energy manifesto is right on!

I would like to see the new and rebuilt refineries made “convertible” to the hydrogenation of coal into gasoline and other petroleum products. The main obstacles to converting some of our energy needs to gasoline converted from coal are:

1. Enviro whackos, of course (those jerks can go live in the woods and eat grubs if they really care about “mother earth.”
2. Capital costs for the conversion plants (a good reason to build new refineries is that in the process, adding the capability to convert coal into petroleum is less of a cost than building a conversion plant on its own, and will help absorb the capital costs in plants we need already)
3. Coal production currently being used for electrical generation.

So, I think the plan should be:

1. Short term, 5-15 years, drill for every drop of oil we have and use it up. Begin construction of nuclear plants with the goal of converting 80-90% of electrical generation to nuclear power. Construct new refineries with capability of conversion to hydrogenation of coal.

2. Intermediate term 15-25 years: Complete conversion of electrical generation from coal/oil/gas to nuclear power. Implement full strategy of conversion of coal production to hydrogenation for gasoline and other petroleum products.

3. Long term 25-75 years: At some point, we will have to move away from use of fosssil fuels, but the technology isn’t there yet. Some day, it will be. The main things we need are continued development into battery and superconductor materials technologies, and an eventual shift from fission to fusion reactors.

Well, those are the only points I’d add to your excellent Manifesto. We need a clear goal (end energy dependence on terrorist states), a plan to get there, and the consistent commitment to get it done. My fear is that our government is so broken and society so fractured by the left that the commitment is can’t be made consistently.

[IYAS9YAS]

There are too many of us already.

My boiler-plate response to anyone who says anything like this to me is: "Why don't you be pro-active about it and off yourself? Put your money where your mouth is, or shut up."

[rockinqsranch]

“Why don’t you be pro-active about it and off yourself? Put your money where your mouth is, or shut up.”

Agreed, but then the person, or “they” open their pie holes and say something else just as stupid. I don’t want to hear it’ cause I’m sick and tired of hearing the same ol’, same ol’ out of them, so usually I avoid the dumb b—tards.

[Publius6961]

Anyone who uses the word "never" and "always", strikes me as an ignorant twit.
Right up there with Al Gore.

Some people still haven't heard of the Black Swan; or the effect of the Black Swans on civilized cultures...

[goldstategop]

They don't want you to have the life you deserve. But they won't change theirs for you, just to set an example.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[SierraWasp]

Absolutely, incontrovertably and irrefutably CORRECT!!! There is nothing stupider than GovernMentalistic EnvironMentalists when you get right down to it... NOTHING!!!

Great posting, kellynla... GREAT!!!

[kellynla]

Tanx...

I’m only surprised that the thread/article didn’t get any more response than it did today...

[kenth]

“There are too many of us already.”

But they never offer up that ultimate personal sacrifice to better the world. It’s always someone else who makes up the “too many”.

[SierraWasp]

Well, ya know, I'm not too surprised. With no real exciting conservative candidate for President, and so much discourageing news about how the Dems are gonna win it all and that the whole nation is going the way of CA... I just don't think there's much enthusiasm around here and a whole lot of disgust and contempt for "the powers that be!"

I know I've just about run out of contemptuous things to say about all the contemptuous developments like those this article re-interates.

I've just about iterated everything disgusting about government being infested with GANG-GREEN, then re-interated it ad nauseum!!! I've gotten too old and lazy to actually do anything about all this crappola except shoot off my mouth through this cold and impersonal keyboard!!!