Clean Energy Demands a Smoke Screen

More "boiler plate rhetoric" from the left progressive Democrats. The environmentalist wackos believe they must gain control of all aspects of energy consumption to secure their place in the power structure. Without such control the entire agenda of the left progressives is lost.

As everyone has witnessed in the press the last few days, the fear from the left is manifested in outright hate speech against the Republicans and the Tea Party. The Republicans and the Tea Party participants what common sense solutions that will benefit the country. As a result, the progressives fear they are losing the battle and the war for control of the countries resources which means they lose control of the population.

As seen in Wisconsin, the left and the unions are on a rampage to stop the state from succeeding in controlling all aspects of government. If the state succeeds in become solvent and jobs start coming back, all is lost for the progressive Democrats.


The Reality behind Clean Energy Standards
Source: Kenneth P. Green, "Not Free to Choose: The Reality behind Clean Energy Standards," American Enterprise Institute, August 23, 2011.

Climate activists failed to achieve comprehensive greenhouse gas controls in the United States in the form of a cap-and-trade program. And while they pursue incremental greenhouse gas regulation at both the federal and state level, they have not given up on their Holy Grail of a comprehensive national regime to control greenhouse gas emissions. Instead, they have rebranded their campaign, says Kenneth P. Green, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

The current incarnation of the greenhouse gas agenda is hidden in the campaign for a national Clean Energy Standard, or CES. Other terms for this approach are Renewable Energy Standards (RES), or, even more obliquely, Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS). While many states have already implemented such standards, the push now is for federalization.

What they all come down to, at the end of the day, is a governmental mandate that energy utilities must buy and distribute a certain percentage of energy that comes from so-called "clean" sources, such as wind power, solar power, nuclear power, "clean coal," and so on.

Here's why Clean Energy Standards are a bad idea:

They are hidden energy taxes.
They are hidden subsidies.
They are hidden greenhouse gas controls.
They are hidden technology standards.
They decrease consumer choice.

The new stealth approach to energy policy being pushed under the guise of a Clean Energy Standard is frankly dishonest, says Green.