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Radical environmentalists/liberals are responsible for the energy crisis. Now, make them pay a political price.

Richard A. Viguerie

Radical environmentalists and their liberal mouthpieces in Washington are responsible for the current energy crisis – crippling the economy while imposing a heavy burden directly on the American people, especially on working people and small business people, and endangering our national security. 

Thanks to the environmentalists and their liberal friends, we have gasoline at over $4 a gallon and milk as high as $5.25 a gallon.

These radical environmentalists -- many of whom promote internationalism and use violence and terrorism as a force for change -- and their friends are responsible for the deaths of millions by malaria (caused by the DDT ban) and, soon, the deaths of hundreds of thousands or millions by starvation (caused by ethanol/biofuels production, which drives up the price of food worldwide). 

They are even responsible for many of the great environmental disasters, such as the tinderbox nature of our Western forests (due to restrictions on clearing forest land), and the loss of rainforest (due to the clearing of land for biofuels production).

It’s time to go on the offense politically against environmentalists and their co-conspirators in Big Business as well as the media and make them pay a major political price for the harm they have caused. 

As I’ve noted before: We need to make our case in every venue open to us including: talk radio, TV, press releases, syndicated columns, op-ed articles, newsletters, media interviews, letters-to-the-editor, blogs, e-mails, political debates, and resolutions at political party meetings/conventions, local government meetings, etc., etc.

It’s time to fight back at every level, and that includes in the U.S. Congress. It’s time to challenge every single measure that has been passed as part of the great eco-scam and to make our own legislative assault. 

In the coming weeks, conservatives in Congress should make specific proposals that would include:

• Elimination of restrictions on the places where U.S. companies can explore and drill for oil and natural gas. Exploration and drilling, using the technology that is now available, does not pose a significant risk to the environment.

• Elimination of requirements that fuels contain ethanol.

• The appointment of a blue-ribbon panel of free-market economists and likeminded experts to comb through regulations and to target for elimination all unnecessary restrictions on the building of nuclear power plants and oil refineries. 

• An end to all corporate welfare for energy production, including taxpayer subsidies of “alternative fuel” scams. The fact is that people will invest their own money in alternative fuel sources that have scientific and economic merit. With very rare exceptions, the only types of alternative energy projects that need taxpayers’ money are those that are fraudulent. 

Conservatives don’t have much power in Washington these days because we have become too comfortable with the Republican Party, which has too often sold out conservative principles in favor of Big Government and more centralized power. 

Remember, though, the 1970s, when Washington was dominated by liberal Democrats and their junior partners, the Big Government Republicans: in those days, liberals imposed high taxes and strict regulations on the development of energy, while Nixon-type Republicans imposed price controls and blew billions on “alternative energy” scams. The result: “stagflation” (economic stagnation + inflation), long lines at the gas station, odd-even rationing, Jimmy Carter’s “thermostat police,” America held hostage to foreign oil barons.

We must start fighting back, exposing the environmentalists as elitists too arrogant, and too busy regulating and taxing, to notice the harm they do, and as too callous to care. We can start promoting ideas that would undo the damage they have done to our economy and to the world around us, in preparation for the day when, as in the 1980 election, the American people rise up and say: We’ve had enough.

It’s time for conservatives to insist on policies that are free-market based and responsible and not dictated by radical environmentalists. 

Conservatives need to act now.

Richard A. Viguerie
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