Greens are the Enemies of Energy

Canada Free Press ^ | 08/17/14 | Alan Caruba

[Sean_Anthony]

America could literally become energy independent given its vast reserves of energy source

Here in America and elsewhere around the world, Greens continue to war against any energy other than the “renewable” kind, wind and solar, that is more costly and next to useless. Only coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear keeps the modern and developing world functioning and growing.

The most publicized aspect is Obama’s “War on Coal” and, thanks to the Environmental Protection Agency, it has been successful; responsible for shutting down several hundred coal-fired plants by issuing costly regulations based on the utterly false claim that carbon dioxide emissions must be reduced to save the Earth from “global warming.”

The EPA is the government’s ultimate enemy of energy, though the Department of the Interior and other elements of the government participate in limiting access to our vast energy reserves and energy use nationwide. By government edict, the incandescent light bulb has been banned. How insane is that?

[Eva]

Like most everything that Obama does, his war on coal is duplicitous and agenda driven. Obama wages a war on coal in the eastern half of the country, where the bituminous and anthracite mines are mostly on privately owned land. At the same time, with the help of Richard Trumka and Warren Buffet ( and Patty Murray) Obama has been facilitating coal mining in the western sub-bituminous coal regions, where the mines are on federally managed lands, owned by the tribes.

In the fight against new coal terminals and coal trains, the Greens are concerned with property values, quality of life and the threat of land slides from the vibrations of heavy coal trains on unstable hillsides. The possibility of another massive landslide, caused by the train vibrations is very real. No matter what kind of rail improvements are made, they cannot change the geology of the land. These are glacial hillsides and mountains with layers of volcanic soil, clay and sand. Trains are shut down multiple time a year to clear mudslides. Who is going to pay when the increase in heavy trains trigger a massive slide in an urban area?

[yoe]

Green Party:

The party has no current representation in the U.S. House of Representatives nor the Senate and controls no governorships nor other state-wide elected positions. At the state legislature level, until 2014 the party controlled one seat in the Arkansas House of Representatives.[2] A number of Greens around the United States hold positions as city and town council members and mayors.

(the real enemy).....

(Open Secretes).....why the EPA can do as it pleases.....

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

It is intentional.

To reduce US world influence, the global socialists and one world order crowd must first crash the US economy, which means they must starve America of cheap energy.

It is all part of the intentional destruction of America. When we are finished, they will come in and exploit all the coal and hydrocarbon resources we have, transferring it to other nations.

[Erik Latranyi]

Environmentalists are simply paid lobbyists for OPEC who also sue to block domestic energy projects such as power plants, pipelines and extraction, raising the costs for the poor and elderly.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

For the next decade or so, if there is a bad winter in New England, they are going to freeze in the dark, and it is their own fault. They had eliminated coal and oil fuel plants, with the idea that they would get natural gas, but then they neglected to build the pipelines to carry the natural gas.

Even the last ditch effort of getting electricity from Canadian hydroelectric won’t work, because they didn’t want to ruin their views by building high tension lines.

The bottom line is that they have eliminated about 40% of their energy production. So when they have a bad winter, they are going to freeze in the dark.