It is out, as of 0600 this morning, and the topics to be covered in the Big Climate Speech are no longer embargoed for distribution. This is good, since I have to be elsewhere due to The Big Meeting that will inform us of The Big Changes at the company, held conveniently in distant Chantilly, VA.
We are very excited about this. Just after lunch, while I will be watching PowerPoint slides about my future, the President will travel by motorcade of a dozen limousines to Georgetown University where he will tell us how to save energy.
This is apparently one of the signature initiatives of his second term. You can read it for yourself and see what you think. There are some things that are good, and there are some things that are just nuts.
Take E85 biofuel, which will destroy the engine on your car, for example, or regulating coal-fired generating plants out of existence without replacement.
The President is going to pour more public money on things that don’t work, apply new standards for appliances that won’t work, and demand impossible miles-per-gallon standards for big trucks that can’t work.
Plus a lot more money for scientists to continue to churn out alarmist nonsense, just the unholy partnership that Ike Eisenhower warned us about a long time ago.
Other than that, good plan.
I am kidding, of course. The best one can say about this compilation of common sense and idiocy is that it could be worse and it could be slightly more wrong-headed. I am not sure how, though.
None of it relies on Congress, since the President intends to use the Executive Branch powers of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy to advance the agenda by regulation. We turned the corner on “sinister” with the Executive Branch a long time ago, but this raises the bar for a Government that works only for itself.
When the best that comes out of Washington is something that doesn’t make you cringe as bad as you could, that is a sad state.
After the speech, the President will head back to the White House to pack for his $100 million trip to Africa.
This is indeed a trip to Wonderland. I am pleased to be with you, along for the ride.
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