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New Orleans: An Environmentalist Disaster
posted Thursday, 20 October 2005
David Schoenbrod's recent piece in the Wall Street Journal, "The Lawsuit That Sank New Orleans" (Sept. 26, 2005) reminds us of the high and even disastrous cost of radical environmentalism. He points out that the U.S. had long ago authorized funding to provide strengthened levees to protect New Orleans, but it was a lawsuit from environmental groups that interfered with the much needed action. Absent the radical environmentalists and their lawyers, New Orleans might still be dry.
Another environmentalist disaster is the high cost of energy. It will make the poor suffer most as they struggle with heating bills and decreasing employment opportunities. And why is the cost so high? Every effort to build new refineries has been impeded by environmentalists and the Left (we haven't built a new refinery in many years), every effort to increae domestic oil production faces incredible hurdles from the environmental lobby (we could be self-sufficient, but instead must poor money into the hands of nations that hate us and help our enemies), and the safe and cheap power of nuclear energy has been stopped in its tracks by environmentalist opposition. It's almost as if the goal is to oppress the poor and make America weak and vulnerable. There needs to be more public outcry and a demand that we increase our own energy production. But the Left instead is calling for higher taxes and using less energy. They need to be thrown out (along with most Republicans, I admit) and replaced with people who wish to make America strong and less dependent on its enemies.
Another environmentalist disaster is the high cost of energy. It will make the poor suffer most as they struggle with heating bills and decreasing employment opportunities. And why is the cost so high? Every effort to build new refineries has been impeded by environmentalists and the Left (we haven't built a new refinery in many years), every effort to increae domestic oil production faces incredible hurdles from the environmental lobby (we could be self-sufficient, but instead must poor money into the hands of nations that hate us and help our enemies), and the safe and cheap power of nuclear energy has been stopped in its tracks by environmentalist opposition. It's almost as if the goal is to oppress the poor and make America weak and vulnerable. There needs to be more public outcry and a demand that we increase our own energy production. But the Left instead is calling for higher taxes and using less energy. They need to be thrown out (along with most Republicans, I admit) and replaced with people who wish to make America strong and less dependent on its enemies.
comments (1)
1. Erasmus left...
Friday, 11 May 2007 8:45 pm :: http://slouchingtowardserfdom.blogspot.c
Blaming the environmentalists for the devastation of Katrina really misses
the point. New Orleans received billions of dollars over the years to
shore up its levees from the federal government. The state and local
governments diverted that money for other purposes, sometimes directly into
organized crime. The sickness at the heart of New Orleans was the
political structure. Given the resilience of Mayor Nagin, don't expect the
city to recover soon.