It seems pretty easy for certain politicians to get a lot of Americans to feel guilty about their lifestyles. The Hummer that was vandalized in an upscale neighborhood, because it doesn't fit in is a good example. (The Prius' owning neighbors said the Hummer owner deserved to be taught a lesson) And there is hardly a nod from the news media, because that guilt sells papers. After all, we in America have so much, consume so much, and produce so little?

The latest energy bill has the government preventing American business from expanding energy production in favor of "alternatives". This, in a effort to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere. How long will we tolerate rolling black outs when there isn't enough electricity to go around? Count on it unless a lot of power plants are built - power plants that run on coal and nuclear energy. There is no provision in the bill to provide tax incentives to build critically necessary power plants, or to improve the efficiency of the electric grid. This is irresponsible. It won't matter if the planet warms or cools if there isn't enough electricity to keep our industry and business working.

If American productivity is compromised because electricity is being rationed, it will impare our ability as a country to attract foreign investors, and slowly we will be strangled economically. You and I probably won't live to see it, but our children won't live in a polluted, flooded, cinder of a continent; they'll live in a balkanized state of fear and economic uncertainty.

If you want future generations to live in an Africa styled economy, then keep up with the global warming rhetoric.

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DS
2010 CL550 - Heaven help me but it's beautiful
87 300D a labor of love
11 GLK 350 So far, so good
08 E350 4matic, Love it.
99 E320 too rusted, sold
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