Posted on 09/06/2014 5:20:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Look, if people really wanted to show by action, that they both believed and were concerned about a global climate change, they...
1) Would push to end subsidization of gasoline, diesel fuel, and petroleum products, why, because a higher price would encourage people to use less gas
2) Would push against heavy subsidization of water. If water prices were allowed to rise much higher, then there would be an immediate incentive to not congregate into arid parts of the country where water is more scarce. If you were in arid places, use less water because of the higher costs, unless you were super rich, but even then, there would be a need to trim the Las Vegas fountains and pools, because the water for said uses would be more expensive. Or possibly put pools and fountains indoors to get less evaporation.
3) Would push for heavy immigration control. Massive foot and vehicular traffic across the border is damaging to the desert vegetation, and loads of undocumented residents must cost resources (think water) as well. And yet the politicians with a straight face say that we should have fewer babies and depopulate. It’s like having a bottle of water with two lids, one pouring and saying that it’s okay, because we one lid on.
Either way, my point is that the way that politicians handle the economy creates incentives against their own preaching, if supply and demand had a more true effect, there would be more reason to conserve one’s resources, or possibly even make neccessary tech reforms to improve the situation. But instead, they subsidize, which creates an illusion of how available certain resources really are.
Same gas bag, same suit (taken in many times over the years).
Jeepers ... thanks for the ping!
And this is why they love this fraud of globull warming.. because anything they dont like “Causes it”
More behavior control.
Wonder when people will wake up to this BS? Hey they believed the second hand smoke myth, so anything is possible lol
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