By now, unless you’ve been living in a cave or Washington, D.C., you’ve come to realize that climate change is real. It happens every few thousand years due to the Earth’s wobble on its axis. That’s just life in the big city and there’s nothing Earthlings can do about it. The problem is we human-types have sped up the change, which wasn’t due yet. Anybody remember Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth film? What he forecast in his data back then is happening; but it’s happening even sooner than expected. What do you have to say to that, Mr. Bill Suhayda?
Many of us still cling to the idea that antiquated fossil fuel production is the road to salvation and lower fuel costs. Why is it that there seems to be only a handful who act for the ultimate long-term benefit of humanity, regardless of the short-term cost? Money, money, money, once again. The only way to end our dependence on coal, gas, oil, or any other nonrenewable resource, is to make them more expensive than clean energy resources. It’s happening slowly. The cost of hybrid and electric autos is coming down as well as the cost of solar panels. Once it reaches point where it’s cheaper to go with renewables, there’ll be a move in that direction. Funds need to go into development of these renewables, not in dirty coal plants belching black soot into the air, oil pipelines that are guaranteed 100% to leak, or your money back, or tankers that break open and dump millions of gallons of oil into our already-suffering seas and destroy fish and fowl.
Let Vladimir Putin and the Saudis have their oil pipelines. Maybe, Mr. Suhayda can get a job as their sales representative, or, possibly as a crowd-member stand-in at the Saudi-backed golf tournament in New Jersey with host Donald Trump, friend to all dictators. His tournament last weekend had more geese than spectators in attendance. But, I digress.
Expanding into renewables will decrease our dependence on oil and coal. There are those using solar panels to produce energy for their homes that, besides paying zero to the energy companies, are selling excess energy back to them. I even heard a group of scientists have created (this is true) a carbon-neutral jet fuel by combining focused sunlight with water. It’ll be sold as a Big Gulp at 7/11 (I could be wrong on the latter).
I don’t know how he did it, but senator Chuck Schumer worked with senator Joe Manchin to cave in and vote for the good of the environment. Because Moscow Mitch promised early on that he’d block anything president Joe Biden tried to pass, he didn’t appreciate getting the royal ricky-doo so he and his evil flock of zombie sheep voted against the PACT (Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics) Act, to deny any medical help for veterans suffering from the effects of burn pits.
Mitch and his Senate weasels claim things were added to the bill they signed previously. Wrong! Nothing was added. Funny how those GOP senators will quickly vote to dump billions into endless foreign wars, but when it comes to caring for the veterans who fight their wars, it’s much too costly. I hope all my fellow vets realize these senators are using them as pawns and deny them benefits as revenge against the Democrats for getting a bill passed that will help save our air and water.