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"In protest for George W. Bush's energy policies and lack of emphasis on
efficiency, conservation, and alternative fuels, there will be a voluntary
rolling blackout on the first day of summer," says their news release. "Turn
out your lights from 7 to 10 PM. Unplug whatever you can in your house. Light
a candle to the sun god, kiss and tell, tell ghost stories, doing something
instead of watching television, have fun in the dark."
This is what the Greens want---darkness across the face of America. They want
Americans to return to the days when homes were lighted with candles. They
want to "protest" the administration's energy plan that would insure the
lights stay on in America by turning them off. Until Americans understand
that this is the future the Greens advocate, we will never be able to defeat
this madness, nor serve the needs of our growing population.
On Monday, June 11th, USA Today reported that "Environmental groups are
mounting a bare-knuckled campaign to oppose many of the USA's proposed
wireless towers. They say the towers are a death trap for birds, harmful to
nearby wetlands, and just plain unsightly." These are same morons who want to
put windmills every few yards from one another across the face of America as
"an alternative" energy provider.
Meanwhile "their petitions before the Federal Communications Commission
threaten to delay construction of hundreds of towers for months just as the
wireless industry seeks to rapidly expand its networks to serve rural areas,
fill in coverage gaps and relieve congestion." Dare I say this is just one
more example of the Greens opposing any-I mean any--technology that will
enhance and improve our lives and our economy?
In early May, a coalition of thirteen environmental groups filed a lawsuit in
San Francisco against the federal government for "failing to protect
endangered salmon in the face of heavy hydro-electricity demand from US
Northwestern dams." The Northwest depends on those dams for about 70 percent
of its electricity and, guess what? California has been leaning on the
Bonneville Power Administration and others that govern operations at the 29
federal dams to run them at full capacity to provide the electricity it
failed to provide for that energy starved State.
Now, the Greens, who brought about that State's energy crisis, wants to
worsen it by reducing the dam's hydroelectric generation in order to protect
salmon while millions of Californians wait for the next rolling blackout. If
this isn't insanity, I don't know what is.
Alan Caruba is founder of The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for
information about scare campaigns to influence public opinion and policy. The Center maintains an Internet site at www.anxietycenter.com.
Copyright, Alan Caruba, 2001
Published by permission.
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