The Inconvenient Truth about Climate Change

Climate change cannot be denied. The inconvenient truth President Obama refuses to accept is that efforts to significantly alter its course are fruitless, and severely handicap America’s ability to mitigate its consequences.

In recent years, more abundant and cheaper natural gas has motivated electric utilities to switch from coal, and energy intensive manufacturers in metals, chemicals and the like have made remarkable, cost-saving progress to reduce energy use.
Responding to consumer preferences, automakers were making more fuel efficient vehicles before the president imposed more stringent mileage standards. The high cost and stress of commuting are encouraging many young people to live closer to jobs. Competition from rail is pressuring trucking companies to purchase more fuel efficient rigs.

Together, those free market decisions have reduced CO2 emissions by more than 9 percent from 2005 levels.

Now, the EPA and other federal agencies want to micromanage those choices by imposing inflexible standards on electric utilities and other manufacturers. Progressives would happily force as many Americans as they can onto mass transit, imposing a huge drain on state transportation and local government operating budgets.
Those initiatives would not do much to arrest global warming but by increasing taxes and production costs, those would send more jobs to China.

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