A diversion from the Civil Rights
The Environmental Protection Agency was once a small operation working out of the Department of Interior. President Richard Nixon elevated it to a single agency and used it as a diversion from the Civil Rights and the Anti – Vietnam War movements. The two movements were joining and he wanted to put an end to it. He kicked it off with Earth Day, which was the beginning of the environmentalist movement. Today, every member of the Obama administration is screaming “Global Warming.” It appears that the EPA is once again being used as a diversion from all of the economic ills and scandals coming out of Washington, D.C.
The EPA is now launching a series of rules and proposals that will greatly limit our commerce activity. It is basing the need for this activity on global warming which has yet to be proven. Former Vice President Al Gore has made more than a billion dollars selling this claim. He blames it basically on the energy industry. That is ironic because his family made its fortune from ownership in Occidental Petroleum. Also, he made his last windfall from selling his television station to Al Jazeera, which is owned by oil producing sheiks. All of Gore’s far-fetched predictions have been proven false.
The current EPA administration has been in office for nearly six years and most of the initiatives they have originated are falling apart or have been stopped in their tracks. With two years remaining, they are under serious pressure from environmentalists to implement some programs. In response to that pressure, they are coming out with extreme programs such as eliminating coal, increasing ethanol use, and other initiatives that will lessen the availability of electricity, gasoline, natural gas and drive up energy prices like never before. They remind me of kamikaze pilots in World War II. They have no thought about the damage they might do even if it kills them. The bad thing is that it may cause serious harm to our economic well-being and do irreparable harm to our nation.
Right now, they are shutting down coal-fired utility plants in states such as West Virginia, Arizona, California, Ohio, Alabama, with many more coming. Thousands of careers are being destroyed and the supply of electricity is being reduced. Energy reduction will definitely spike our utility bills. Many of us will not be able to make the monthly bills.