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• Monday, June 30, 2008 10:49 PM

  Ways to Change

  Will liberals never learn. Government has no more power to stop the activities that they say are causing global climate change than you do to stop an influenza epidemic. Government can only get in the way of reasonable change. Democratic government will always bending to the will of the voters. If the voters choose not to save themselves and the planet their representative will yield to them rather than loose his power and prestige. The only hope for you liberals is to trust the one thing you cannot trust, the natural pressure of market economics. It is this single force which will move things faster than anything else in our lives. With the advent of $4.00 gas my family has already started changing their ways. Not because a government forced their hand, but because economic pressures have brought a dicipline they cannot afford to ignore. Instead of continuing to drive gas guzzling Range Rovers, we have put our SUV's in the parking garage and have turned to tiny little Fords and Chevrolets that get 35 mph.

  Oil burning furnaces are being replaced with log burning stoves. Ceiling fans are being cleaned, floor fans purchased, so that we can turn our thermostats up and keep the A/C off. Old canners are being gotten out of the storage, along with Ball jars as we prepare to return to home canning. All of these things are being done without a single instruction from a President or a Congress. All over America, people are driving less, eating out less, and in general slowing down the economy to a more leisurely pace. All without one word from Washington. No cap in trade. No carbon offsets. Just good old supply and demand at work.

  What we need now is for the liberals and their instrument of distruction to get out of the way so the market can attack our lack of affordable energy with sane, profitable answers.

  The last great economic miracle was the "information age". Even with all the problems it created freely elected governments and even liberals would consider any form of regulation on the machinery or the internet that carries the message.

  Now we have moved into the next great economic paradigm. The energy age. We don't have to plan it, hold it up with excessive regulation. Let it come. If "necessity is the mother of invention" then we are in safe hands if we trust the market. Solar, wind, atomic, coal, oil, natural gas, bio mass, and things we never heard of are going to be part of our future as long as we don't let government have any role in it.

  I promise.

  Steve Williams

  Borden Indiana

  —rottenluckwilly Read rottenluckwilly's other letters
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