Cheap fuel is “folly,” part of a “gusher mentality [that] deforms our society and economy,” according to Carl Pope, the longtime Sierra Club executive director. Inexpensive energy is positively un-American, Pope argues:
“It leads the United States to sabotage international efforts to combat global warming, tolerate a huge trade deficit that has destroyed millions of manufacturing jobs, and keep military bases in the Middle East, where they serve as rallying points for terrorists. And it’s why the U.S. auto industry continues to promote size and performance over safety and efficiency.”
Environmentalists have done this very thing by compelling us to buy fuel from overseas. They cause all the impacts they claim.
Let the damned environmentalists pay our energy bills. They’re the ones who are anti-oil. In all seriousness, does anyone know how much their at-present theoretical switch to alternative energy is going to cost? How much is it going to cost to switch automobiles to natural gas, while we sit on known oil reserves?