I & I Editorial BoardFor more than three decades, it’s been almost invariably accepted in policymaking circles that fossil fuel use has to be reduced and then eliminated altogether if we are to save the planet. But the second Trump administration has restored reason and logic to the energy and environment debate. Every American who enjoys the life-giving benefits of fossil fuels today should be thankful.
Monday’s entertaining exchange between Environmental Protection Agency Director Lee Zeldin and Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro from Connecticut, who seems to have never been hinged to reality, is a bright spot we’ve needed for some time. DeLauro, 83, behaved like a bratty child while Zeldin, 46, kept his cool and explained things to DeLauro as if she were his student.
“Section 202 of the Clean Air Act,” Zeldin said in response to DeLauro’s insistence that he was “abandoning” the EPA’s “duty to protect Americans” from global warming. “Where does it say anything about fighting global climate change?”
DeLauro would have been better off to come back with a courtly “touche,” but instead screamed and wagged her finger at Zeldin after he silenced her by mentioning Supreme Court environmental cases she apparently knew nothing about.
The purple-haired DeLauro later said that Zeldin should maybe try drinking a cup of glyphosate, the active ingredient in weed killer Roundup.
In a town where hot air, witless politicians, and ruinous policies outweigh sensibility, Zeldin gives hope. Earlier this month, the New York Times reported that “Zeldin has fundamentally shifted both the EPA’s mission and the words he uses to describe it.”
Rather than harping on terms such as “global warming,” “energy efficiency,” “pollution,” “toxics,” and “public health,” Zeldin instead uses “energy dominance,” “American energy,” “economic growth,” “red tape,” and “cost of living,” the Times complained. The narrative swing is apparently part of Zeldin’s effort to oversee “a systematic unraveling of climate change protections.”
To the Times and the rest of the true believers, the climate grifters, the gullible and useful idiots, and the revolutionaries on the left, this is a tragedy.
But clear thinkers are delighted. The global warming tale has held sway for far too long without sufficient challenges at the policymaking level. At least $16 trillion has been wasted on a phantom problem, students have been indoctrinated into a cult, and extremism in the defense of the environment is a vice. It’s past time to be free of the chains of climate tyranny.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
A characteristic to appreciate about Trump is his common sense willingness to reconsider accepted ideas of the last three decades, which our common sense citizens have been very suspicious about, too.
EPA began as reasonable but rapidly went too far following the cult of climate change fanatics like the “blue haired wildebeest,” as a delightful female comedian calls the Rosa Delauro sorts. Education Department, EPA, NATO, UN, strengthening the military, ship building, Greenland, an idea that has been around for 100 years, Cuba, shifting the priority of which reporters are in the Press Room and calling out the moronic fools in the press and much more. The man is not timid as our recent presidents have been.
I urge Trump to use Sherman Antitrust next, to rein in the non competitive and expensive stranglehold the big unions have on our economy, against national security and against fair competitiveness. Why did millions and millions of our jobs go offshore in the last three decades? Unions. Why are so many public schools so anti-educational? Teachers union and their leader Randy, another misguided wildebeest.
Very funny, describing the the blue haired harridan as a “blue-haired wildebeest.”
So appropos
An utterly retarded article, paid for by the oil barons, tone deaf, stupid and suicidal.
Man made climate change DOENS’T CARE that you don’t believe in it, it’s still cook and drown you.
Have a nice day idiots.
This comment is a good example of why readers should think hard, or at least a little, before they write something foolish. First, the commenter offers no facts to back up his or her claim, but is quick with schoolyard insults.
Then there is the tedious accusation, with zero evidence, that the editorial in question was “paid for by the oil barons.” We can only say we wish. We get no money from oil companies, oil executives or oil industry groups. We subsist on modest tips and advertising that generates so little revenue we’re thinking of eliminating it. We know that when we are accused of taking oil money in exchange for favorable coverage, the accusers have no facts and must resort to lying. This is a consistent tactic from the global warming ideologues who want to poison the debate rather than actually have one.
Readers are always welcome to comment, and most of what we get is thoughtful, not vacuous assertions. Don’t be like this reader.
The only man-made crisis is the leftist/criminal mind. FBI and DOJ need to pursue leftists for trillions in restitution for their climate fraud, pandemic fraud, vacvine fraud, . . . Man-made energy is a trivial 6 millionths solar energy received from the Sun. The paltry man-released CO2 barely impacts the average 400 ppm in the atmosphere and plants love CO2 at 1000+ ppm, converting it to Oxygen for us.