PrintJune 1, 2011
Sustainable Nonsense
Large-scale central planning, even of the most ruthless sort, has always been the left's preferred mode of operation. Within the Obama administration, this planning has focused on achieving what the left calls "sustainability." Like so many core values of the left, sustainability can be made to mean whatever one wishes it to mean. But apart from its meaning, one thing that is always involved in sustainable policymaking is a dominant role for government.
When applied to energy, for example, sustainability has almost nothing to do with the ability of certain fuels to meet the nation's needs over an extended period of time. With the advent of hydraulic fracking, it is obvious to all, including experts at the U.S. Energy Information Administration, that America possesses enough reserves of natural gas to meet our energy needs for at least a century. Our reserves of coal are even greater. Yet neither of these fuels is deemed "truly clean" enough...(Read Full Article)
