Posted by
Dave on Thursday, April 09, 2009 9:22:24 AM
I read an article by John Deans of Greenpeace of North Carolina congratulating Congressman Etheridge 2nd Congressional District North Carolina because he voted to keep important language in a bill addressing the so called Global Warming AKA as the Climate Change. Why have the Global Warming crowd changed the name from Global Warming to Climate Change I ask? Is it because more and more evidence has come out proving them wrong and many scientist and former supporters are now complaining that the studies used by the Global Warming crowd left out about 400 years of world history. The History Channel and the Discovery Channel have both aired documentaries called the “Little Ice Age-Big Chill” which documents how the earth has warmed and cooled over its history. All of this long before we had the big SUVs or coal burning power plants. It also explained how that Greenland when the Vikings first settled there was at one time was actually green.
It never stops amazing me how certain groups such as Greenpeace and other left wing groups always seem to leave out important facts when ever it suits them. Something else Mr. Deans left out was how much more it will cost us to heat our homes and fuel our vehicles if these policies are put into effect. Let us not forget that when the cost of fuel goes up so does the cost of our food. Why, because the cost of transportation and growing the food then increases. Just look at what happened to the price of corn and other food products when our government encouraged the Ethanol industry with large subsidies to use corn instead sugar to produce Ethanol, even though Brazil for over 20 years has proven sugar is more cost effective in producing Ethanol. Now do not get me wrong I believe we need to find other sources of energy and quickly but let us not destroy our economy in the process. I also believe we have a responsibility to protect our environment but again lets not loose sight of the fact that if the cost of fuel and food goes up it will effect the very people we are trying to protect and that is the poor and middle class. Let us not enact laws or regulations that will in the end do more harm then the good we are trying to accomplish. Again Mr. Etheridge voted against the little people and with the money.