“Hold onto your wallets — and hope you can hold onto your homes, cars and jobs — as you ride the wild roller coaster of climate-change politics.
By PAUL DRIESSEN May 6, 2008
Climate-change politics is primarily about power: power to control — and curtail — the power we rely on to build, heat and cool our homes; produce raw materials, food and products; transport people and consumer goods; and sup- port modern living standards.
Its about simulations, scenarios and monsters conjured up by computer models that should never be used to determine government policy — especially on matters that profoundly affect livelihoods, living standards, lifespans, dreams and economic civil rights.
It’s about the selection, production, conservation, taxation and prevention of energy; about access to real energy versus mandates to use futuristic, mostly illusory and certainly insufficient alternative energy; and about who decides how much energy we will have, where it will come from, what it will cost and whether there will be enough to lift more families out of poverty.
So hold onto your wallets — and hope you can hold onto your homes, cars and jobs — as you ride this wild political roller coaster.”
06 May 2008, A13 – Fort Worth Star-Telegram at Newspapers.com
