Lately I have been posting articles by Steve Milloy who runs junkscience.com, which is a great site for anyone who wants to keep up with the latest corruptions of science for the sake a political agenda. Milloy, a statistician, also is a regular collumnist for foxnews.com. I highly recommend that people visit his website regularly and while your there sign up for his weekly updates which include his Fox News columns. This is his latest, explaining how environmentalists are using energy as a weapon against the American people. Here’s a taste:
“Despite record high oil and natural gas prices in 2005, widespread concerns about our dependency on Mideast oil, and 55 Republican votes in the Senate, the all-powerful environmental lobby still was able to stop Congress from passing legislation…that would have opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas drilling.
But even if we could produce more oil and gas domestically or in Canada, environmentalists stand ready to block its transportation.
High natural gas prices have revived plans for two massive pipelines in North America. The Alaska Gas Pipeline, stretching from Prudhoe Bay to Alberta would stretch 1,700 miles, and cost $20 billion and take 10 years to build. An alternative is the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, which would start 250 miles to the east, but would only stretch 800 miles, cost $6 billion and take 3 years to build.
While environmentalists don?t like either pipeline, if they had to favor one, it would be the longer, more expensive and time-consuming Alaska Gas Pipeline…Because the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline would greatly aid the development of Canadian oil sands, a resource containing several hundred years worth of oil, which environmentalists don?t want developed because of their supposed concerns over the dreaded global warming. Also, the longer, more expensive, more time-consuming Alaska Gas Pipeline provides more opportunities for political attack.”
The real threat to liberty and democracy in this country is not the illegal shenanigans of Jack Abramoff, who after all everyone recognizes is evil, but the influence of groups like the Sierra Club and the Audabon Socitey who cloak their anti-freedom agenda in the rhetoric of moral superiority. The social costs of the influence wielded by these and other pressure groups are far greater than those of the Abramoffs of the world.
