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Alan Caruba
May 20, 2008
Environmental bad ideas are now beginning to cause food riots around the
world
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3139
There is always a point in time when reality steps up to remind everyone
that bad ideas come with a price to pay. The long history of
environmental bad ideas are now beginning to cause food riots around the
world with its campaign for biofuels and against the energy that powers
great economies and feeds the world.
On May 14, Earthworks, one of the many environmental organizations
zealously trying to leave America and the rest of the world cold and
hungry released the text of a letter its attorney, Bruce Baizel, wrote
to Red Cavaney, the president of the American Petroleum Institute.
It called upon API to "stop its multi-million dollar, multi-year
self-promotion campaign aimed at polishing its image during a time of
record high energy prices." Earthworks told API it should take the money
devoted to its PR campaign and invest it in "clean energy alternatives."
The alternatives are solar and wind energy, industries that exist
primarily because of the subsidies granted to it in the form of a hidden
tax paid by everyone who is dependent on coal, natural gas, and oil.
Take away the subsidies and these alternative forms of energy would fade
away, as much for their inability to significantly contribute to the
nation's energy needs, as for the way they requires vast tracks of land
to exist. Together, they represent barely one percent of our current
energy needs.
Earthworks is about to initiate its own "No Dirty Energy" campaign "to
alert the public to the climate, ecosystem and community risks
associated with mining and burning the world's dirtiest fuel sources."
Labeling coal and oil "dirty" is pure PR and ignores the fact that coal,
a cheap and abundant energy sources, provides just over fifty percent of
America's electricity, an energy without which the entire nation would
cease to function. It ignores the way the Green's campaign against oil
has for four decades thwarted the right of American's to access and use
its national oil and natural gas reserves yet to be found and extracted
from 85% of our coastlines or the well-known fact that billions of
barrels of oil remain untapped in ANWR.
Take away these energy sources and you cripple that nation's
agricultural community that requires power to till the land, fertilizers
to insure greater crop yield, the ability to feed the livestock to feed
a nation, and the means to deliver food from the field to the table.
Even the global warming-obsessed New York Times has recently
editorialized in favor of ending subsidies to the ethanol industry, but
the real answer is to end the massive biofuel-ethanol-industry that is
entirely the creation of a Congress that is just beginning to realize
that its massive mandates for this fuel additive is partially to blame
for the imbalance in the worldwide agricultural marketplace, affecting
grains other than corn.
The American Petroleum Institute is engaged in a costly campaign to
educate the public to the role that oil plays in the maintenance of the
nation's economy. The vast majority of the oil in the world is
controlled by nations, many of whom would love to see America fail so
that they could expand their control over captive populations in Africa,
Asia, Russia, and elsewhere.
Only the United States and a few Western, industrialized nations stand
against the expansion of communism and militant Islam. Europe is almost
entirely dependent on the importation of oil and natural gas. The United
States has restricted access to its own reserves of these energy
sources. We spend billions of dollars to insure that the sea lanes that
deliver these resources to ourselves and the rest of the world remain
open. We have invested blood and treasure to liberate Iraq, a nation
that sits atop one of the world's great reserves of oil. We protect
Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states from the hegemonic ambitions of Iran.
But Earthworks wants API to be silent about these harsh realities while
nations like Venezuela and Russia literally steal the assets and
abrogate agreements with the handful of investor-owned oil companies
that are capable of exploring and discovering these vital sources of
energy.
The Greens who want to reduce the Earth's population and its consumption
of food and energy are silent about the anticipated increase in
worldwide population to an estimated eight billion, up from today's 6.4
billion, by 2050. We will need twice as much food and feed to avoid
massive famines that will make today's food riots seem tame by then.
Instead, they insist on turning corn, soy, and other food crops into
ethanol. They insist on "clean" energy sources that are totally
inadequate to meet our present and future needs.
If we permit Earthworks and the other environmental organizations to
succeed, we will be-as we already are-their victims, guaranteed to
suffer famines and the loss of the energy we need to be the beacon of
freedom to the world.
--
Warmest Regards
Bonzo
". researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar Research in Germany
report the sun has been burning more brightly over the last 60 years,
accounting for the 1 degree Celsius increase in Earth's temperature over
the last 100 years."
http://ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287279412587175 |
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