Global Warming: Conservatives’ Opportunity

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Global Warming: Conservatives’ Opportunity: “The Church of Global Warming (CGW) is a cult. A cult has a number of definitions, among them this one from dictionary.com: ‘A religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.’ Cults wish to control others. Global warming fundamentalists wish to do the same through the power of government.”

Republicans and Democrats repeatedly tell us we rely too much on foreign oil, especially that which comes from a current trouble spot, the Middle East, and that which comes from a potential trouble spot, Venezuela. Might it be possible for the CGW crowd and the Church of Free Enterprise (CFE) to come together for the common purpose of reducing our reliance on foreign oil? CGW fundamentalists would get what they want — a reduced carbon footprint and supposedly lower global temperatures (go ahead and let them believe it) — while CFE parishioners would rejoice that Saudi Arabia’s hold on us (not to mention its use of our money to underwrite terrorism) could be broken.

If we would launch an energy independence program with the intensity of a Marshall Plan for Europe, or a man-on-the-moon project, to liberate ourselves from the petroleum despots by developing synthetic fuels and finding new energy sources closer to home — especially nuclear power — we could strike a blow against the Islamofascists more damaging than bombs and bullets.

Cults don’t buy into the dogma of other cults. You don’t really think that Al Gore cultists would buy into nuclear power, do you? They are more likely to advocate mandatory sterilization or worse.