President Obama threatens to use the veto and regulatory agencies to throttle American energy production. Share the facts at CFACT.org: cfact.org/2015/01/10/vetoing-bipartisan-energy-job-and-economic-growth/ The EPA is proposing new rules for conventional and fracked wells. The White House claims the rules are needed to reduce emissions of methane, which it calls a “potent greenhouse gas” that contributes to “dangerous climate change.” The real goal is to put federal bureaucrats in charge of fracking and production on state and private lands, now that they have made most federal lands off limits to drilling. President Obama’s determination to lock the United States and other countries into a binding new climate change treaty will magnify the damage many times over. poorafricanchildrenFirst, developing nations like China and India must merely agree to try at some future date to make some efforts to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Other countries can walk away from treaty obligations that become too burdensome. That will penalize the United States as almost the only nation required to abide by its suicidal climate agreements. Second, few (formerly) rich countries will ever honor their supposed commitments to provide billions of dollars a year for climate change “adaptation” and “mitigation” – and those contributions will never come anywhere near the $100 billion per year that poor developing countries are demanding as their price for signing a treaty. Third, most of this money will end up in Swiss bank accounts of kleptocratic African, UN, and other dictators, bureaucrats, politicians, activists, and corporatists. The poor will get nothing. Fourth, most of this promised aid – as well as OPIC, World Bank, and other loans and grants – comes with the proviso that the money be used only for wind, solar, and biofuel projects. Poor countries will be prevented from building coal or gas power plants to lift billions out of poverty via reliable, affordable electricity. Billions of people will remain trapped in poverty, misery, disease, and early death – with improved education, healthcare, jobs, food, clean water, and sanitation remaining largely out of reach. How can we teach President Obama that energy is not the enemy?
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:05:23 +0000