Obama is driving a green dagger into the
heart of the American dream
When it comes to pinpointing the nadir of the Obama
administration, future historians are going to suffer
a serious case of option paralysis. Was it Benghazi? The NSA? His use of the
IRS to harass the Tea party? The various scandals involving his black ops
department, the EPA? Obamacare?
Personally,
though, I think the one they will eventually plump for is Obama's Climate Action Plan of
June 25 2013. The economy, after all, is everything.
Without an economy you can't afford a domestic policy, let alone a foreign
policy. So you'd think the very last thing any president would do as his
country began to show the first vague signs of slow – and quite possibly
illusory – recovery after a long recession would be to jeopardise it with a
whole new raft of utterly pointless regulation and wasteful government
expenditure. Why it would be like seeing a man drowning and, instead of
throwing him a life line tossing him a lead weight.
But that's
just what President Obama has done with today's Climate Action Plan whose gory details you can read
here.
It promises
another $2.7 billion for "Actionable Climate Science" (whatever that
is) – almost all of which, we know from bitter previous experience, is going to
end up in the sweaty palms of junk-science troughers in the tradition of
Michael Mann and NASA's James Hansen rather than seekers-after-truth who
genuinely care about the scientific method.
It promises
to accelerate Clean Energy permitting: so that's going to make it harder for
people to oppose the ruination of their local landscape, their favourite views,
their health and their sleep with all the hideous new wind factories which will
now spring up – at massive taxpayer expense – on federal owned land.
It promises
to "expand and modernise the grid" – as it will have to do in order
to enable it to cope with all that unreliable, erratic, mega-expansive
"renewable" energy being pumped (or more often not pumped) into the
system by all those lovely pointless solar panels and wind turbines.
It will
promote "Clean Coal" using a technology – Carbon Capture and
Sequestration – which has not been tested successfully anywhere in the world,
which is massively expensive, monstrously energy-inefficient and potentially
quite stupendously dangerous.
It will give
still more power to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a hard-left
political organisation swarming with deep-green ideologues fully committed to
reducing living standards, killing consumer freedoms and hamstringing business
with ever-more-stringent, scientifically-ill-founded environmental regulations
based on nothing more than the "precautionary principle."
Oh, and of
course, it will create lots of "green jobs." The kind that so far has
cost the US taxpayer up to $2
million per job in subsidies.
And more
Solyndras. There'll be plenty more of those, too.
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