Obama's Progressive Administration finally tells the truth - they are out to kill off fossil fuels of all types - Granite Grok

Obama’s Progressive Administration finally tells the truth – they are out to kill off fossil fuels of all types

Bill Maher: “Some people called it a war on coal. I hope it is a war on coal. Is it?”

Gina McCarthy: “That’s exactly what this is.”

For some perspective, a Heritage Foundation analysis of anti-coal policies found that they will destroy more than 500,000 jobs, slash the income of a typical family of four more than $1,400 a year, and increase electricity prices at least 20 percent. Price spikes could be much higher in states that depend heavily on coal-fired power plants, especially in the Midwest. Coal still produces 37% of the nation’s electricity.

All this for what will amount to 0.018 degrees F by 2100.  Trillions spent for a result that can’t be told from “signal noise?”  I did not know that the Constitution enumerated the power to the Federal Government, or to the President by executive fiat, to shutdown an entire industry.  This is yet another indication that Progressives hate the idea of Free Markets and that they do not trust consumers or Citizens to make the right decisions (as defined as any decisions that run counter to what they want).  There is no other term for it – they really are fascists in that while they do not own “the means of production”, they certainly realize that they don’t have to own in order to control a sector of American industry.

The question to ask – in the areas that they have taken and pulled on the reins, what industry really is going great guns (other then the “Crony Capitalism” one)?  I certainly can’t think of one.  But, as you know, it hasn’t been about increasing GDP – it is about taking control of those industries by those that know it least from those that know it best.  They also are choking off the life’s blood of American Economy – entrepreneurship rates are plummeting.  Who wants to start a new business when you would have to spend hundreds of hours just trying to figure out what laws, statutes, and regulations at the local, country, State, or national level apply – and which to choose when they conflict?  Or, how much of your startup money has to go to pay for someone (an “expediter” or “fixer”) that does?  That is just the definition of insanity!

It really will be a #WarOnPoor – gas prices more than they can afford, electricity rates will skyrocket, the cost to make goods will rise, the cost of transporting those goods to market will make inflation soar, and lower the standard of living for them especially.

But remember, Democrats are always tell the poor “Vote for us – we will take care of you”.

Indeed.  (H/T: Independent Journal Review)

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