The Carbon Straw That Broke the Camel's Back

Regulating/controlling/reducing pollutants into the environment is something with which most people agree. However, schemes for carbon-caps and carbon credits trading make very little sense.

Texas has long been dependent on the oil and gas industry for the strength of its economy. It is the U.S. leader in most areas of energy production -- including renewable sources such as wind energy. Its cities also are among the leaders in developing plans for reducing pollutants in the atmosphere.

Good science should be applied to pollution, not schemes designed to line the pockets of a small group of people who would create a "carbon credit" market. The individuals promoting such schemes are positioned to capitalize on the trading of such credits while placing an increasing burden on the consumers in this country. IT IS THE CONSUMER who will pay for it all -- not the so-called "bad" industries such as oil & gas production or chemical manufacture.

We are already facing a horrendous deficit in our country due to the profligate spending of the last few years. That deficit promises to grow dramatically under the current bailout schemes. The burden eventually will fall on the shoulders of the taxpayers -- of this generation and the next and the next. The debt of our nation is already held largely by foreign governments. We have sold our country to the highest bidder while sucking the life out of the people who made this country great.

Adding the burden of a carbon cap-and-trade scheme to our economy could very well be the last straw that breaks the camel's back. Perhaps that is what our national leadership desires. We've been hearing of a conspiracy to create a one-world government for years. I never really bought into that conspiracy theory but I'm beginning to wonder.

The article linked below discusses the potential burden to the Texas economy of carbon regulations being proposed. It's amazing isn't it? One of the few bright spots in the U.S. economy is now threatened by this lunacy.

Carbon regulation could "cripple" Texas: Perry

Another article below:

Perry concerned by plans to limit greenhouse gases

And another article:

Perry says emission rules would cripple Texas economy

The GHG Fleecing of the American Consumer

Forty-five trillion dollars!!! That's a number so large that it is unimaginable. That's what we are being told is the cost to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by the year 2050. It will be us "little guys" that are stuck with the bill. It won't cost the oil companies. It won't cost the government. It won't cost the multi-national corporations. It will cost the consumers. The taxpayers. The hard-working people of this world. All those other guys will just pocket the money. It is another scheme for sucking the results of the productivity of the average person out of our pockets and into the hands of the elite few.

It doesn't matter what form of government we are talking about. The results are the same. When governments work for the "good" of the people I always start asking which people they are talking about. The little guys? or, the ones that contribute to their campaigns? -- the ones that control the strings of wealth on this globe.

Then, they try to pull the wool over our eyes....

"Gielen said most of the $45 trillion forecast investment — about $27 trillion — would be borne by developing countries, which will be responsible for two-thirds of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050."

Yeah, right. How much of those dollars flowing into developing countries started right here in this one?

Green Trees, Carbon Offsets and Rabbits

I don't necessarily buy into the Global Warming hysteria but I've always made it a practice to plant trees everywhere that I've lived. Here in the Texas Panhandle the rainfall rarely is sufficient to support a tree -- unless we're talking something with lots of thorns. So, you have to apply irrigation water fairly liberally. With a temperature yesterday of 104 and a 30 mph wind all day long my little trees are suffering. The answer is to pour water on them -- which I have to pump out of the ground. Pumps require fuel. In my case, electricity.

I wonder how the Greenies feel about the situation? I plant trees which are considered a carbon offset and then I use lots of energy to keep them watered and alive. That energy use probably releases a whole lot more carbon than my little trees tie up.

On top of that, the rabbits really like to hunker down under my little trees because they create shade -- which is rare in our part of the world. That shade must make them feel frisky because they seem to be multiplying rapidly. All those rabbits eat grass and make little round pellets which eventually decompose and release carbon. Plus, the rabbits breathe and release CO2 in their respiration. So, am I better off not planting trees? What a crazy world we live in!