There\u2019s nothing quite like handing Democrats What They Want.<\/p>\n
So to accommodate them, wily old Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has scheduled a vote on freshman socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [D-N.Y.] and her sidekick Sen. Ed Markey\u2019s much-vaunted \u201cGreen New Deal,\u201d just to help them out.<\/p>\n
But wait. The Senate lefties are not happy about it.<\/p>\n
All that methane-filled and benzene ring-infused hot air about cutting cow farts, getting rid of cars, ending jet travel, and retrofitting every building in America to \u2018go green\u2019 \u2014 the plan which was so quickly signed onto by nearly all major Democratic presidential candidates, and then pulled from the website \u2014 suddenly isn’t quite what Democrats want to go on the record about these days.<\/p>\n
\u201cWily\u201d is the word. As the Hill<\/em> relates<\/a>, \u201cMcConnell told reporters after a meeting of the Senate Republican caucus that he has \u2018great interest\u2019 in the plan, which would spell an end for coal, a key economic driver in McConnell\u2019s home state of Kentucky.\u201d<\/p>\n He certainly does, but his interest is in putting Democrats on the hot seat. \u201cWe\u2019ll give everybody an opportunity to go on record and see how they feel about the Green New Deal,\u201d McConnell explained.<\/p>\n Reacting to this, Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) slammed<\/a> the GOP for pledging a \u201cshow vote.\u201d And Ed Markey (D-Mass.; shown above), \u201cthe guy who actually wrote the resolution with Ocasio-Cortez, and apparently the high-school style notes about the real agenda which got released earlier before the whole thing was pulled, is howling the loudest,\u201d American Thinker<\/em> tells us. Just consider the tweet below:<\/p>\n Yeah, I mean, can\u2019t a politician posture anymore without being called out?<\/p>\n Of course, voting is exercise of voice. As for sabotaging the movement, Markey and AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) did a good job of that themselves by disgorging a document that<\/a>, to quote<\/a> a New American<\/em> writer (me), reads like Bart Simpson meets the Bolsheviks.<\/p>\n Taking note of this was billionaire former Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz, who already has sent Democrats into a tizzy with talk of an independent 2020 presidential run. Hardly a conservative \u2014 he was mocked himself in 2015 for encouraging his baristas to discuss race with customers<\/a> \u2014 Schultz said that Democrats should be \u201c\u2018truthful\u2019 about their environmental initiatives rather than just throwing policies \u2018against the wall because it\u2019s a good slogan,\u2019\u201d reports<\/a> the Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n The Examiner<\/em> continues, \u201c\u2018I read that by 2030 they\u2019re suggesting that every building in America becomes clean energy, conforms to clean energy, just to put that in perspective, because it\u2019s not realistic, that would mean that between 2,000 and 3,000 buildings a day would have to be reconstructed to conform to what they\u2019re saying,\u2019 Schultz said. \u2018So let’s be sensible about what we’re suggesting.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018I don’t understand how you\u2019re going to give a job for everybody, how you\u2019re going to give free college to everybody, how you\u2019re going to create clean energy throughout the country in every building of the land,\u2019 he said. \u2018I think it’s immoral to suggest that we can tally up $20, $30, $40, $50 trillion of debt to solve a problem that could be solved in a different way,\u2019\u201d the Examiner<\/em> also informs.<\/p>\n Yet it\u2019s even worse than Schultz indicates. The Green Leap Forward<\/a> would truly be a cure worse than the disease because, well, there is no disease<\/a>: The anthropogenic-climate-change thesis lacks foundation.<\/p>\n In fact, the \u201ccure\u201d would be a disease. Just consider the message of energy theorist Alex Epstein, founder and president of the Center for Industrial Progress and author of the book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels<\/a><\/em>. Summarizing energy importance and realities, he writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u2022 There are 7 billion people in the world who need cheap, plentiful, reliable energy to flourish….<\/p>\n \u2022 It is extremely difficult to produce cheap, plentiful, reliable energy. In the entire history of humanity, only three industries have achieved this on any scale: the hydrocarbon (fossil fuel) industry, the nuclear industry, and the hydroelectric power industry….<\/p>\n \u2022 Since the energy industry is the industry that powers every other industry, the fossil fuel industry increases productivity and prosperity in every area of life, from agriculture (diesel-powered farm equipment) to hospitals (24\/7 electricity<\/p>\n The reality is that modern, high-population civilizations require massive amounts of low-cost energy. We need energy to grow food at high yields and process and deliver it, to purify water and pump it to cities<\/a>, to provide life-sustaining heat, to get people to work either by private or public transportation, to run our refrigerators and sewage plants, and to generate the electricity that powers virtually everything in the modern world.<\/p>\n![\"markey](\"https:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/images\/2014-2015misc\/markey_tweet.png\")
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