It’s Not Too Late to Save America from the Deadening Hand of Green Ideology

FoxNews ^ | 02 June 2008 | James P. Pinkerton

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We stand to lose our country, our homes and our very lives since we are too complacent. Complacency has brought us John McCain, a big-spender republican congress and talk show hosts like Mike Savage who insisted we not vote for republicans just to teach 'them' (the bad guy republicans) all lessons. These lessons are bitter pills for everyone else in the electorate to swallow and pay for and suffer through. They include tax increases and surrender to global islamic hegemony.

Support you local candidates like never before or you may never again have the chance to do so.

[MNJohnnie]

It's Not Too Late to Save America from the Deadening Hand of Green Ideology

Fixed it. When all the politicians on both sides are for it, it will take revolution to stop it. The system is dead. Just a question of how long it will take to rot.

[SERKIT]

My Energy Manifesto:

* Cease all ethanol production. It takes away from food production and the unintended consequence is higher food costs. As diesel prices go up, the cost of farming tips the balance of cost to make ethanol a bad idea. Just say "no" to ethanol! Even Jimmy Carter says that diverting farm production from food to fuel is dumb – even HE gets it.

* Immediately create only ONE "blend" of gasoline and cease regional "boutique" blends which are stupid, costly, and meaningless. Even if this is the "cleanest" blend, just make it ONE and be done with it. Trucking custom blends around the country is wasteful.

* Lift the restrictions in order to drill for oil in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and other sites in the CONUS as a matter of national security.

* Encourage the petro industry to construct state-of-the-art refineries and/or retrofit current and dormant ones and crank up production for our newly-accessed oil in the CONUS.

* Make all “carbon credit” scams unlawful. Discrediting Algore should have been a slam-dunk a long time ago. Stop electing Reps who buy into the Global Warming / Global Cooling / Climate Change Hoax. CO2 is not our enemy!

* Construct SEVERAL, regional Pebble-Bed Modular Reactors (or other similar modern designs) that are not considered "breeders", are rechargeable, and cleaner than any current nuclear generator design. Breeders are OK, but PBMR's are better. DO SOMETHING NUCLEAR to resolve energy problems.

* Use the residual heat from the reactors above to process motor fuel from coal and/or shale. Even though Clinton "stole" some of the best coal reserves, we still have a lot to use.

* Become independent enough to make the cartels (i.e. OPEC) inconsequential.

* Convince local taxing bodies to lift or cap the sales tax on gasoline so that as gas prices go up, the local tax collectors don’t see a windfall revenue jump at the expense of the consumer. The Federal government could compel the states (and locals) to cap the fuel taxes.

If you squint real hard, and read between the lines, the ‘manifesto’ will require the dismissal of all RINOs and LibDems and the election of some clear-minded conservatives to even consider any of the above.

[caisson71]

I’ve been looking for a big enough clothespin for my nose on election day so that I will be able to vote for McLame. I really don’t think a big enough pin has been made.

[MNJohnnie]

Intresting to note Mike Savage is a Democrat campaign contributor. He will go down in history as the greatest political mole ever. Pretty obvious he was sent out to use Talk Radio against itself.

[MNJohnnie]

If you run for office, I will vote for you, campaign for you, donate to you. So will millions of others.

[caisson71]

I’ve been looking for a big enough clothespin for my nose on election day so that I will be able to vote for McLame. I really don’t think a big enough pin has been made.

[BloodOrFreedom]

I’ve been looking for a big enough clothespin for my nose on election day so that I will be able to vote for McLame. I really don’t think a big enough pin has been made.

Try one of these:

[caisson71]

That would be better but still not enough for me.

[Das Outsider]

Fixed it. When all the politicians on both sides are for it, it will take revolution to stop it. The system is dead. Just a question of how long it will take to rot.

When Fox News, that alleged bulwark of conservatism in a left-dominated television news industry, "goes green," I have to wonder.

Green is where the green is: it's trendy, highly marketable, and provides that all-important sense of self-satisfaction and duty to a cause higher than one's self.

Why should anyone expect it to stop? This thing is just starting to really rev up.

[SERKIT]

If you run for office, I will vote for you....

I am flattered but my wife says I'm not sleazy enough to run for office.

If you find a candidate that will even give the 'manifesto' a second look, I'd be surprised.

Criticize ethanol? NO! Use coal? NO! Expand nuke power? NO! Drill in the CONUS? NO! Allow more refineries? NO!

Once again, like Sosh-a-curity, the Dems want the ISSUE, not the SOLUTION! They are very good at that game!!!

[RetiredArmy]

I wake up every day hoping this nightmare will be gone. But, it is still here. Our Republic is on death's bed. The republicans have joined the dimocrats in becoming liberal Marxists socialist communist sluts. Our country is dying because Americans simply do not care. They do not care for freedom. As long as they get theirs free, the TV reality shows are on, dope and booze is plentiful, porn on demand, Americans don't give a damn. The 10th of us who do cannot fight off the 90% who do not care. Simple as that. With Obama or McCain in the White House, more damage is going to be done over the next four years that the Soviets could not do in 60 years. Yes, the Republic is doomed. Few care any more.

[lolhelp]

If you need that a really big clothespin, you must be related to the Marx brothers!

[supercat]

Cease all ethanol production.

All? Why not just reduce ethanol production to a level sufficient to match proper (glug glug) consumption?

[MNJohnnie]

This thing is just starting to really rev up.

Wonder how long it will be before they send "Enviormnetal Terrorists" like us to "reeducation camps"

[MNJohnnie]

Because corn based Ethanol is a energy dead end. It costs more to proudce, it gets less MPG, it is a net loss on the Energy budget. It actually does nothing to help solve our Energy dependence.

It's only advantage is it give politicians an excuse to write nice fat subsidies checks to some of their special interest groups.

[Das Outsider]

Wonder how long it will be before they send "Enviormnetal Terrorists" like us to "reeducation camps"

At this rate, I imagine the increased government-mandated restrictions on personal behavior would eliminate the need for such a thing. The malcontents might just be written off as tinfoil kooks, albeit relatively harmless ones. However, I don't think the criminalization of once-ordinary habits and practices is too much of a stretch. I didn't think I'd live to see the federal government dictating which lightbulbs Americans could use in their homes, but here we are.

The future could be a mixture of Orwell and Huxley. Just go green, it'll make you feel better. ;)

[Hank Kerchief]

I think 10% is optimistic, but I hope you’re right. If it is, there is hope. The first revolution was driven by a much smaller percentage.

And I do not think it is exactly that Americans don’t care, it’s just that they don’t care for the one that is necessary, individual liberty, and they don’t care for that because it means they would have to be responsible for their own lives.

The American people no longer want freedom, they sold it out for, “security,” believing the government can provide it. By the time they discover it cannot, it will be to late.

Hank

[SERKIT]

The ‘manifesto’ will be so modified to reflect the clarity that the ethanol in question is to the tank, not to get tanked! The manifesto is robust, but always subject to tweaking. Thanks!