With Barry’s decision just this past Friday to halt new
coal leases on federal lands, he has once again made it very clear that the
only war he has any interest in pursuing is his continuing war on fossil fuels,
particularly coal. Not only is it the
only war he deems worthy of fighting, but the number of casualties and the
incredible amount of collateral damage seems to matter little. Now granted this war does not involve the
dropping of munitions, or soldiers in combat, but the resulting damage is no
less quite severe. This is a war that
Barry has now taken to a whole new level, and is a purely ideological one with its
only goal being to further attack middle-class jobs and to punish the already
poor with escalating energy costs.
Throughout his entire time in office Barry has
spoken at great length about what he describes as being the plight of the
middle class and how it is that we need to get people working again. And yet he, as well as any number of other
members of his Democrat Party, has gone far out of his way to worsen the plight
of those whose lives he claims to want to improve and yet puts into policies
that do only harm and all in the name of the cockamamie theory of “climate
change.” Hard to believe, I know, but no
less true. So while Barry and his fellow
Democrats, including those Democrats now vying for his job, claim to be on the
side of a struggling middle class, their priorities seem to be just the
opposite.
Even before Barry assumed office he had made it very
clear what his opinion was regarding coal.
So Barry’s not so covert attack regarding the energy source should come
as no surprise. And Barry’s recent
announcement to halt federal coal leasing is but the latest front in his ideological
'war on coal' that has contributed to the devastation in hundreds of
communities and the loss of thousands of jobs.
Jobs held by middle class Americans. Today nearly 40 percent of the coal produced
in the United States comes from federal lands located, primarily, in Wyoming,
Montana, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico. So is it any wonder that more than 70
percent of Americans want to see the next president take a different approach.
It was Barry’s stellar Interior Secretary, Sally
Jewell, said that the administration is seeking to determine whether fees
charged to mining companies provide a fair return to American taxpayers and
reflect coal's impact on the environment.
I am curious about something though, just who is it that will be put in
charge of determining what that supposed impact on environment might be? Ms. Jewell also said that companies can
continue to mine coal reserves currently under lease and made the comment that
the coal-leasing program has not been significantly changed in more than 30
years. She said it was time for it to be modernized to ensure a fair return to
American taxpayers and to account for “climate change.”
Meanwhile House Speaker Paul ‘RINO Ryan’ said Barry's
decision "has made it absolutely clear what he plans to do with America's
energy — keep it in the ground.” Because
as far as Barry is concerned, that’s the ‘safest’ place for it. ‘RINO Ryan’
went on to say, "Coal on federal land belongs to all Americans, but the
president is denying people access to their own abundant, low-cost energy
source." And he went on to say, "The
ramifications for the country will be terrible: lost growth, lost jobs, and
lost revenue that would have gone to schools, bridges, and roads.” And yet I doubt very much that Mr. Ryan will
attempt to take any measures in an effort to stop, or even slow, what Barry has
in mind here.
Ryan went on to say, "The president's policies
have already ravaged coal country, destroying jobs and people's way of life —
and this will increase that suffering."
But what does he offer up as being measures that can be taken by
Congress to prevent Barry from moving forward with this insanity? Does he threaten to use whatever power he has
at his disposal to prevent Barry from moving forward in completing his mission
to decimate America's coal industry, all in the name of protecting future
generations from something that doesn’t even exist except in the rather twisted
minds of those on the left. No, as is
usually the case our Republicans in Congress sit on their hands. They are all talk and no action!
Meanwhile it remains unclear what impact, exactly,
Barry’s moratorium will have on many coal companies, given the declining
domestic demand for coal and the closure of numerous coal-fired power plants
around the country. Coal companies have
already stockpiled billions of tons of coal on existing leases. But the announcement will no doubt please the
many environmentalist wacko groups in this country, groups that have long said
the government's fee rates actually encouraged production of a product that they
claim contributes to nonexistent global warming. Look, while Barry is only too happy to claim
‘climate change’ is his rationale for taking this action, there’s something far
more sinister at work here.
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