From Politico’s “Morning Energy”:
TOTAL RECALL - If environmentalists are going
to get results in their push for clean energy, they need to pipe
down about climate change and speak up about national security and
job creation, Arnold Schwarzenegger told college energy clubs on a
recent conference call [with Energy Secretary Steven Chu].
Er, that’s not even selective memory. More like amnesia. I
understand the part about running from your Plan A — after all,
this very marching order
first came from pollster Stanley Greenberg and led to John
Kerry saying of his cap-and-trade bill “This is not an environment
bill” (oddly, it amended the Clean Air Act, granted power to EPA,
mentions ‘environment’ 97 times, ‘climate’ 220 times, ‘greenhouse’
650 more times…but, hey, the pollster said say something
else!).
But the Secretary and Governator are also forgetting that the
damage these policies wreak has been specifically, thoroughly and
professionally exposed as regards the very countries Obama used to
tell us to look because they were his models (Spain,
Denmark, Germany; the
sole exception not receiving the full review is
Japan).
He no longer cites them, obviously due to said exposés, but he
still pushes the costly schemes (he knows, and cares not.
That is disturbing).
Now they’re going to say ‘China!’. Which was not their first
choice, but fifth, for a reason: to compare us with them is
absurd.
And so about that ‘security’ thing.
Recall the recent
‘gathering storm’ (yes, Germans actually wrote that)
and
‘it gets dark in Germany’ headlines. Now those headlines are
popping up here, and for the same reason. Consider Climate Wire
today (subscription required):
“RENEWABLE ENERGY: Fickle winds, intermittent sunshine start to
stress U.S. power system”.
Keep that one handy for in the event O repeats his German
example, which he seems to be holding on to in reserve, having
whipped it out when he though no one was listening (in a Saturday
radio address in December), but has otherwise avoided after Spain,
Denmark and Germany were exposed. Such praise went the
way praise for transport model, China, may now go
(thanks
to WaPo!)…though, as with renewables, the rail
agenda itself will surely hang on, with only the rhetorical hints
about where to look for how the story ends abandoned.
More on the importance of WaPo debunking the ‘China’s
doing it!’ TP on high-speed rail later. But do bear in mind the
relevance of one story to the other. The truth is that the
president, like the movement he represents, opposes automobility
and abundant energy because both liberate you. Just as George Will
wrote
about why liberals love trains, freedom of movement like abundant
energy is “subversive of the deference on which progressivism
depends [and …] encourages people in delusions of adequacy,
which make them resistant to government by experts who know what
choices people should make.”
As regards their ‘say anything’ approach to create the world
they seek to create, just remember as Mr. Alinsky taught them,
the issue isn’t the issue. The reason (excuse) for doing
what they demand is always changing, and this is because ere is no
good reason for doing it. But if they told you what they really
longed for it would be a non-starter. Which, in itself, is reason
enough to stop this madness now.
