Roy Innis of the Congress of Racial Equality says the policies pushed by environmental activists and passed into law by intimidated lawmakers are jeopardizing civil rights advances paid for in blood during the ’50s and ’60s:

Laws and policies that restrict access to America’s abundant energy drive up the price of fuel and electricity. They cause widespread layoffs and leave workers and families struggling to survive, as the cost of everything they eat, drive, wear and do spirals higher. They roll back the progress for which civil rights revolutionaries like Dr. Martin Luther King struggled and died. …

These regressive, energy-killing laws and policies deny minority and other poor families a seat at the energy lunch counter, and send us to the back of the economic bus.

He adds these undeniable assertions:

These energy resources belong to all Americans. They are not the private property of activists who insist they never be touched, or citizens who’ve been bamboozled into thinking they cannot be developed without destroying ecological values.