Articles Tagged "Samuel Rodriquez"

This is a vital and timely column from three leaders of the Affordable Power Alliance, which represents the interests of poor, minority and senior citizens, employees and energy consumers.

It challenges EPA attempts to impose costly, job-killing new regulations on our nation’s energy producers – and warns that those rules could subject Americans to the same devastating consequences that Great Britain’s companies and citizens are suffering in the wake of obstinate climate change, fossil fuel and renewable power laws.

Congress rejected cap-tax-and-trade and other economy-killing legislation in the last session. For the White House, EPA and Interior Department to impose equally destructive controls, through an regulatory power-grab, is intolerable and unconstitutional.

Paul

Driving US families into fuel poverty

Will America learn in time from the price being paid by British companies and families?

by Niger Innis, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez and Amy Frederick

The article highlights how the White House and Congress are trying to use the Gulf oil spill crisis to advance their cap-tax-and-trade, anti-oil, pro-renewable energy agenda – without regard to vitally important energy, economic and environmental facts of life, and while ignoring the high costs of carbon taxes and wind and solar power. The authors lay the facts out succinctly and forcefully in their column. PD

Congress and the White House are using to Gulf oil spill to advance dubious energy agendas

Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr., Niger Innis and Reverend Samuel Rodriquez

Business and capitalism are dirty words in many White House and progressive circles, except in two ways.

Business is good when it can be co-opted and manipulated by government to advance “progressive” energy, social or economic agendas. And capitalism is a virtue in the sense of capitalizing on every crisis to promote those agendas – through the guiding principle enshrined by leftists like Saul Alinsky and Rahm Emanuel: “Never let a crisis go to waste.”

Thus the tragic Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been incompetently handled by a White House, EPA and Corps of Engineers unable even to make timely decisions about constructing sand berms to keep oil out of fragile estuaries. But the crisis is being exploited brilliantly to justify policy initiatives like cap-tax-and-trade, EPA’s “endangerment” decree, more bans on drilling, and mandatory fuel switching to higher priced options, most notably wind and solar power.

The economic facts of life simply don’t support this agenda.

Senator John Kerry asserts that China and India are spending billions to take our “clean energy” discoveries and technologies, make the wind turbines and solar panels in Asia, and sell them back to us. He is right about what’s happening, but completely wrong about why. The fault, dear Senator, is not in our stars (or in Asia), but in ourselves.

China and India pay their workers less than we do, especially in union shops so beloved by progressives. They use coal to generate cheap electricity to power their factories, while the White House, EPA and Congress strive to tax and regulate American coal-fired power plants into oblivion. China mines its abundant rare earth minerals (essential for wind turbine magnets and Prius batteries), whereas we have made hundreds of millions of acres of superb mineral prospects off limits.