You’ve all made good points, as did the President. But what you are all overlooking is the actual reason for the present situation.

In law enforcement, we have a saying; When your investigation is at a standstill, and you don’t know where the evidence is pointing, think motive. In other words, to understand what someone is doing, understand why they want to do it.

The motivation of the progressive “enlightened elites” in this matter was well summed up by Joseph Lieberman in a recent op-ed on RCP. Put simply, for the last fifty years they have believed that our country, in fact Western civilization as a whole, is evil, is a failure, is a threat to the world in general, and must be destroyed at all costs to “save the world”. Over those five decades, progressives in general and Democrats in particular have repeatedly used every trick in the book to acheive this.

But their best trick, their “ace in the hole”, has been to strangle our energy production. They believe the best way to kill this “evil culture” is to “starve the Beast”- of energy. And that is precisely what they have been doing for thirty of those fifty years, going back to Jimmy Carter’s bans on nuclear plants, new oil refineries, and oil exploration.

They believe that once our society collapses, they will be able to rebuild it along “rational” lines- think a medieval culture of nobles and serfs (them nobles, the rest of us serfs). They believe that they will always have their “necessities” of life (Starbucks’ lattes, private limos, private jets), while the rest of us are working in the fields, spreading “night soil” in rice paddies by hand. (Ask any veteran of SEA what that is.)

They do not understand- or are too stupid to comprehend- that once a civilization’s technological base goes down, everything else goes with it.

And a civilizational collapse does not care if you are a card-carrying member of the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, or whatever- it is as likely to kill you as anyone else.

A lot of them do not understand that the sort of “starting from zero” they dream of is certain to kill a hell of a lot of people, and not just in the Third World. Some of them do understand it, and don’t care.

And some of them, to judge from the rhetoric of the “deep-ecos” they fawn over, understand it and are hoping for it, because they think there are too many people on Earth now. (Going back to Paul Ehrlich’s long-ago disproven “Population Bomb” theory, which many of this lot still believe in, regardless.)

As things stand now, thanks to the maneuvers they have pulled off in the last three decades, all they have to do to keep us on the road to societal oblivion is….nothing. We are in a mess now, and it will get worse unless decisive action is taken.

As long as they can prevent that sort of action, in the end, they win.

And the rest of us most likely will not be around to complain.

At which point these “enlightened ones” believe that they will be able to kick back, sip their lattes’, and spend the rest of eternity having themselves cloned over and over again and arguing about which of them is The One Most Perfect Socialist In History.

Well, it won’t happen that way. Unlike in Hollywood movies, the “enlightened ones” are no less vulnerable to a disaster than anyone else.

Even if they’re the ones who cause it.

Not that it will matter to the rest of us.

The answer is simple. Tell our “enlightened leaders” that they have two, and only two, choices; solve this problem now, or lose their jobs. If they try to play the old “bait and switch” game of “Wind and Sun”, or “Ethanol”, or “No Nukes”, or anything else, fire them.

Vote against any incumbent who supports the status quo in energy policy. Regardless of party.

And keep on doing it until there is a majority in our elected offices who remember who they work for.

clear ether!

eon

eon on June 18, 2008 at 5:18 PM