Extreme environmentalists who long ago hi-jacked the Democratic Party, and who are well on their way to hi-jacking Republicans as well, have declared for decades that it would be great to drive the price of gasoline to five dollars a gallon.
That would reduce consumption among us thoughtless slobs and save our planet. In that effort, they have successfully prohibited off-shore drilling, north-shore drilling, coal mining, new power dams, nuclear power plants, new oil refineries, oil shale recoveries, Cape Cod wind farms, desert solar power collectors, ocean tidal generators, wood-powered local generators and any other power generation that comes to mind. Consequently, they have nearly achieved their goal of five dollars a gallon.
If we had plastered this country, as did France, with nuclear power plants decades ago, we could generate enough electrical power to produce non-polluting hydrogen for automobiles almost as a waste product. Nuclear power plants pollute nothing. In full disclosure I must admit as a rocket scientist that I truly believe manmade global warming is nonsense but, despite the plutonic wisdom of Jane Fonda, the fact remains that nuclear power plants produce no CO2 or anything but clean, safe electricity.
Now that you extremists have driven gasoline to nearly five dollars a gallon, are you happy? At that price many of us won”t travel. Rich people, whom you profess to despise, will be unaffected in private jets but, since we middle class and poor folk, whom you profess to love, can”t afford the cost of a vacation, we won”t go.
But next winter will come and we will need fuel of some kind. Maybe we will wrap ourselves in blankets by wood fires. Oops, I forgot, environmentalists don”t like wood fires and are pursuing laws to prevent them. We”ll just wrap ourselves in blankets and shiver. Back to nature.
Randy Ridgel
Kelseyville
