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On the heels of the Climategate scandal that should have halted or at least slowed calls for U.S. "climate" legislation, best-selling author Christopher Horner explains why Obama and his allies are hell-bent on imposing his "green" agenda, right now. You may have heard that eco-concerns are merely camouflage for raising taxes and seizing power; Horner has done the research to prove it. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar claimed windmills off the East Coast could generate enough power to replace most, and possibly all, coal-fired plants nationwide. In fact, countered Dr. Robert Peltier, editor-in-chief of Power magazine, Despite lip service to domestic exploration and energy independence, Obama is systematically dismantling the very policies and infrastructure needed to achieve those goals. Already Obama has locked up energy-rich land, ordered the closing of the nation’s only repository for spent nuclear fuel, and established a moratorium on off-shore drilling. Horner further reveals Obama’s intentions as evidenced by his choices of a radical population control advocate for his chief science advisor and a climate czar with a well-known law-breaking and prevaricating past. He names big corporations who have hitched their wagons to "climate" legislation and expect to cash in through government contracts, consumer mandates and other political favors. While unflinchingly delivering bad news, Horner uses his sardonic wit to elicit reader chuckles at the sheer incredulity of it all. In relating House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s remarks that the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade legislation was all about "jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs," Horner scoffs, "She didn’t mention that those jobs were in China, Mexico, India and elsewhere– not here." (Regnery Publishing, 2010, 396 pp., $27.95) |
it would take hundreds of square miles of densely placed windmills to supplant even one coal-fired plant, and that assumes constant rather than intermittent winds. In reality, windmills work less than one-third of the time, and so require duplicate investment in back-up electricity if rolling blackouts are to be avoided. Obama admitted knowledge of current technological constraints when he responded to a "green" activist harassing him to quickly enact policy during a meet-and-greet, saying, "They can’t do it. The technology’s not there."
