Climate Assumptions From Another Planet

It’s time to reexamine far-fetched claims that drive US energy and global warming policy

By Roy Innis and Paul Driessen

As the 821-page Kerry-Boxer climate bill gets fast-tracked in the Senate, as a companion to the 1427-page House bill, it is critical that we reexamine the assumptions behind cap-tax-and-trade legislation.

The Environmental Protection Agency, Energy Information Administration and other optimistic analysts claim America can limit and tax hydrocarbon use, and switch to “ecologically friendly” renewable energy, with minimal harm to families, businesses and jobs. Their low-ball cost estimates are based on assumptions that can only have come from another planet:

* We will overcome decades of fear, resistance, lawsuits and over-regulation, and double US nuclear power in just 25 years.

* Workable, affordable technologies will suddenly materialize to remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide from emission streams and store it underground – and won’t run into buzz saw of NIMBY and eco litigation.

* Renewable energy will generate abundant, reliable, affordable electricity that can replace hydrocarbons, power our economy and easily be integrated into the grid.

* There will be no lawsuits or opposition over hundreds of thousands of giant wind turbines across habitats and scenic areas; hundreds of square miles of solar panels in the desert Southwest; thousands of miles of new transmission lines; millions of dead birds and bats; and mining and drilling to provide hundreds of millions of tons of concrete, steel, copper, fiberglass, rare earth elements and plastic film for all those eco-friendly renewable facilities.

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Roy Innis is national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality. Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for CORE (www.CongressOfRacialEquality.org) and the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org)

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