Through
both the environmental push to replace coal and free enterprise fracking
slashing the price, natural gas has increasingly replaced coal as the preferred
fuel to generate electricity. But this
transition has its quirks. Half of the final consumer cost of gas is
transportation. Pipelines are increasingly controversial and costly. Coal comes
via our often underutilized freight rail system. It can be stored like a pile
of rocks. Natural gas requires new storage facilities, mostly underground. These
usually encounter environmental objection. While I won’t even broach the
technical arguments, we have all seen the dire consequences
of inadequate maintenance of gas infrastructure. The bottom line is simple: we
are becoming more dependent upon natural gas without building sufficient supply
guarantees.
Given the right set of circumstances, we could
briefly close our factories and lose the warmth of our homes. Many will simply
blame the demonization of coal, the global warming hoax and environmental
extremism. While many environmentalists are sincere people and some objections
have validity, the movement is being had and funded by those seeking greater
social control and increased dependency.
If you’re not sure who I’m referring to, they are all on Hillary
Clinton’s email server.
Often
criticized by the socialist left as misappropriation of resources or market
failure, the law of supply and demand along with the action of entrepreneurs
will always produce a surplus. That is the human spirit unleashed with freedom
that made America the model for the world. Given a few organizational twists,
Vladimir Lenin thought it the way to go and called it democratic mass
production. We are a nation primarily of
the descendants of European peasants and the formerly enslaved who enshrined a
culture of abundance. But now we build to a precipice of possible restricted
supply and diminished possibilities. We
need look no further than our recently adopted General Plan to see the power
opposing us deplorables that care to remember when America meant exuberance.
Daily
and personally we experience this decline (which includes the dumbing down of
education) as environmental extremism becomes the norm. Officially, there has been a change.
Institutional and government science has replaced corporate science, but the
end product is just as questionable. “Near-infrared is important as it primes
cells in your retina for repair and regeneration, which explains why LEDs—which is devoid of infrared—are so harmful for your eyes and health. One-third
of the energy your body consumes comes from the food you eat. The vast majority of the energy your body
needs to maintain the systemic equilibrium comes from environmental infrared
light exposure. LEDs "sabotage health and promote blindness,” according to
Mercola.com. I guess that if we are
blind, then we won’t have to see a heated up world of forests and fields turned
into deserts.
Donald
Trump is not our savior. We are. But his presidency could spark a renewal and
an awakening. History, and our adversaries, won’t give us a second chance.
Copyright
2016, Mark L. Bennett
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