Cap and Trade Insanity Explained

I was driving down the road when some fellow, couldn’t tell you his name, representing the Obama administration was being interviewed on the radio in regard to Cap and Trade policies which are at the “top of the agenda”. First off I had to wonder, with the challenges the economy is facing, why would Cap and Trade be near the top? Doesn’t Cap and Trade hurt industry by cutting off the energy sources necessary for production? More appropriately this imposition on the free market has been referred to as Cap and Spend since it really is nothing more than a redistribution of wealth directed by government rather than the free market.

Getting back to what I heard on the radio by the “honcho” representing the Obama administration, he broke it down into three parts. There was our growing dependence on foreign oil, the environmental impact of fossil fuels as relates to global warming, and lastly, how to achieve progress within the constraints of our sagging economy; hope I got that right since traffic was really my main concern and the radio talk show was background noise.

Let me see if this makes sense, we have a president of the United States of America who wants to put the coal industry out of business even though nearly half of the energy required for industry depends on coal. We have a stated dependence on oil, foreign or domestic, and yet the war cry from Washington is to deny drilling for new oil and at the same time limit the consumption of foreign oil because burning oil, regardless of its origin will destroy the planet through global warming. The economy is in the toilet and rather than stay out of the way and let industry continue to have the energy and tools that would assist in a general recovery our leadership has decided to starve industry and instead reward slackers; is this the way out?

After I heard this explanation, without the added self adjusted thought process I’ve added, I tried to think of a situation on a smaller scale, one that would make the average person sit up and take notice of what was being done.

I thought about a passenger plane flying through the air, running low on fuel and the flight attendants shooting holes in the wings to make the plane lighter. Never mind that the plane was unable to support itself in the air or that two of the jet engines were now overheating because of the extra strain after the fuel had been cut off on the other engines. Rather than worry about the airplane falling from the sky and the loss every passenger, the pilot was more concerned with the extra heat being generated and the thick black smoke trailing the last working jet engines, adding further to the carbon footprint, global warming and the destruction of the planet.

Let me tell you folks, with leadership like we have now, this “plane” is going down and it won’t be pretty. About the only good thing will be the lack of a huge fireball when it hits because there won’t be any fuel in the tanks to burn once it crashes.

We won’t let our home grown industries use cheap and abundant coal or take the chance on finding new oil; we’d rather let third world nations with start up industries take advantage of our internal meltdown and then sell us what we could have produced ourselves. Our insane leaders want to cripple American production in the name of being environmentally “aware/stupid”. The same fossil fuel our industry would have used will still be used, probably more since without any sort of regulation third world countries are interested in being competitive more than in saving the planet. We’d rather commit financial suicide as a nation, all in the name of a hoax which has been foisted on us by the global warming junk science environmental whacko progressives.

We’d rather destroy the free market system which rewards the industrious, those who supply all the wealth of this nation and instead, reward the least productive in our society, those who couldn’t produce anything except perhaps a good belch after having consumed a six pack of beer while sitting in their taxpayer assisted mortgaged house which they never could have paid for. Those of us who are somehow able to survive in spite of an unfavorable market place are being taxed to help pay for those entitlements which the government has seen fit to pass around; just make sure we don’t use up our carbon footprint credits and don’t forget, the value of each dollar is diminished with each newly created dollar bill being printed, so it’s not enough to take my money through taxes, what’s left isn’t worth as much.

Is that about the way Cap and Trade works; well why didn’t you say so? That’s the kind of America we have now, total insanity and more on the way.