Posted by
John Caile on Monday, June 08, 2009 12:00:52 PM
On June 7th, the temperature in Duluth, Minnesota was the lowest reading in more than 100 years - in International Falls it was a bitter 27 degrees, an all-time record low for a June 7th, breaking the previous one set back in 1958. Worldwide, records now indicate that the earth has actually been cooling for at least the last 10 years.
Elsewhere in the environmental wars, it has become clear that the entire Ethanol scam is...well, just that, a scam. In addition to driving corn (and therefore, food) prices sky-high, and spending Millions (if not Billions) of taxpayer dollars to build nearly 200 ethanol plants, they now tell us that (Oops!) it costs more energy to produce a gallon of ethanol than the ethanol itself contains!
Ethanol doesn't even "reduce oil consumption" - since adding ethanol to petroleum based gasoline reduces your mileage, you are burning more total fuel to go the same distance, thus you end up using the same (or more) net amount of gasoline you did before!
Even more ironically, after a massive campaign to portray ethanol as "good for the environment," it turns out that ethanol production is extremely destructive of...the environment! Ethanol production not only removes valuable farmland from food production, it's manufacturing processes consume enormous amounts of precious water, and produce substantial waste.
So, why is the public not challenging the global warming hysterics?
Oh, I forgot, not long ago they cleverly changed their mindless chant
from "global warming" to "climate change" - making it possible to blame absolutely EVERY
weather-related occurrence on human activity. And Ethanol is still being relentlessly promoted as the "environmentally responsible" thing to do.
In fairness, the tide does seem to be changing, at least a little bit - recent polls show that fewer and fewer Americans believe the radical environmentalist propaganda. And more and more people are concerned about the influence of the "Green" lobby on their lives.
But what I am really wondering about is when will the tipping point be reached where the majority of Americans demand an end to ever more intrusive governmental controls, especially when it is now being revealed that so many of these economically disastrous policies are based on data that is scientifically inaccurate, if not downright fraudulent.
Time will tell...