How much of a toll on the American economy does the green movement
have to charge before Americans start to wake up to the dastardliness of
radical environmentalism? Last month we saw firsthand
one impact of Big Green on our economy with the White House announcement that
the Keystone XL pipeline won't be built for at least six more months.
Ten thousand blue collar
jobs, almost all paying more than $50,000 a year, down the drain.
It's a project that polls
show almost all Americans want, except for the deep-pocketed green elite in
Hollywood, Silicon Valley and Wall Street. Then the Los Angeles Times
recently warned that electricity prices could be driven upward in California
and other states due in part to renewable energy mandates that cause electric
power shortages and spike prices paid by homeowners. Meanwhile, around the
country, from Seattle to Bangor, Maine, property owners are locked into fights
with green groups preventing people from building on their land in responsible
and productive ways.
Out West, the Endangered
Species Act has become an Endanger the Oil and Gas Industry Act, as energy
companies confront higher regulatory hurdles and bans on development on
potentially tens of millions of acres. Whole communities that depend
on natural resource development are being wiped out. Big Green is already fast at
work wiping out America's coal industry, with entire mining towns nearly shut
down in states like Kentucky and West Virginia, thanks to the left's war on
coal.......This green tyranny is
becoming an oppressive force shrinking the U.S. economy, destroying jobs and
eviscerating property rights......To Read More.....
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