Quick reminder that the Why Al Gore is Wrong: A North Carolina Citizens’ Guide to Global Warming tour comes to Charlotte on Monday.
American Enterprise Institute scientist and environmental consultant Joel Schwartz will detail the guide and provide an entertaining and informative tour through the “convenient” myths in Gore’s fear-mongering movie.
Details here.
And if you missed it, go back and read Roy Cordato’s op-ed on North Carolina’s misguide energy “policy.” It is aimed directly at your wallet:
Unfortunately, North Carolina policy is being driven by an environmentalist ideology and is increasingly based on the idea that the freedom to use the least expensive forms of energy in ways that best fit our lifestyles must be thwarted. Policy makers, in conjunction with environmental pressure groups and utility monopolies, are pushing for higher taxes and new regulations with no supporting cost-benefit analysis, and in spite of clear evidence suggesting that there will be no countervailing health or safety benefits at all.
The most extreme examples are proposals pushed to “fight global warming.” The General Assembly, the N.C. Utilities Commission, the Division of Air Quality, the legislature’s climate commission and some utility companies are looking at or advocating policies that will raise energy costs. These include new gasoline taxes as high as 50 cents a gallon; a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) requiring electric utilities to generate 7.5 percent of electricity from sources like wind and solar; and a new electricity tax called a public benefits charge. The direct price tag for consumers could approach $1 billion annually.
Maybe someone should ask Mayor Pat McCrory (Duke Energy) about this stuff while he is on the campaign trail.
