United States Needs an Energy Policy that Makes Common Sense

The United States needs an energy policy that makes common sense, not one in which the U.S. is stampeded to act against its best interests to benefit all sorts of special interests and those nations that have convinced themselves that the U.S. and Europe owe them some sort of "reparations" because we are technologically advanced and they are not. These special interests who are acting for their own economic gain and the "have not" nations have latched onto man-made global warming as the vehicle to get rich or to "redistribute the wealth". The demonstrations and speeches from third world nations at the Copenhagen Conference on Global Warming show that these other nations are more interested in the destruction of capitalism, spreading socialism and filling their personal coffers rather than saving the palnt from man-made global warming.

There are enormous national security and economic motivations for the U.S. to get away from imported petroleum products and all sides of the political spectrum can agree on this goal. The Dept of Energy, formed under Carter, was supposed to do that, but has failed miserably while creating a huge bureaucracy and big budget for itself.

However, the hysteria over global warming/cooling and the role of man-made carbon dioxide is not one to be decided by opinion polls, politicians seeking pork projects for their districts/states or less developed countries seeking a way to "redistribute the wealth" or a president who has great sympathy for "redistributing the wealth" and who has a political debt for political support from environmentalist groups.

The danger to the U.S. is that man-mad global warming seems to be a hoax perpetuated by: (1) dishonest scientists seeking secure research funding, personal consulting contracts and fame for "saving the planet", (2) unscrupulous marketing mouths like Al Gore who are already making hundreds of millions of dollars by carbon trading, and (3) corporations like General Electric that stand to make hundreds of billions of dollars with widespread commercializing of non-carbon producing but excessively expensive green energy technologies .

The environmentalists, greedy politicians and special interests can drive U.S. policy in a direction that damages the economy of the United States in a huge way that will not be recoverable; we will see enormous tax increases directly and hidden in energy costs and the costs of everything we buy.

The goal of energy independence can be accomplished with better use and improved emissions control of the enormous coal, natural gas and even oil resources within the U.S. or off our shores COMBINED with more nuclear power, and localized wind and solar where it makes economic sense and COMBINED with an improved national energy grid. New battery technology is developing where it may be cost competitive in the next decade with gas.

Hopefully, the scam of man-made global warming was sufficiently exposed with the emails among the dishonest climatologists, (who were already getting millions of dollars in funding,) showing how they were going all out to rig the conclusions that man-made global warming was occurring and a disaster was looming for the planet.