Laughing all the way

My friend Tim B. pointed out to me that since the myth of CO2 as the villain of greenhouse gas emissions has been debunked, the environmental alarmists have switched to another gas, N2O, better known as nitrous oxide or “laughing gas” as their new causeway to Armageddon. They are saying nitrous oxide is 310 times as potent as carbon dioxide and will be the major threat over the next 100 years. I can just picture it now, millions of people afflicted with skin cancer because of ozone depletion laughing at the prospect of their own imminent annihilation. Just imagine the jubilation as we happily sing (to the tune of Jingle Bells):

Dashing through the smog,
In a gas powered Chevrolet,
O’er the roads we slog,
Laughing all the way.

The fear mongers who perpetuate these myths and rumors do us great harm. The money spent, especially in California, to prevent CO2 emissions has been an enormous burden on our state and the people who do business here. We don’t notice the costs so much because it is all buried in the minutiae of the state budget.

Under the guise of being environmentally sensitive, hundreds of pieces of legislation have been passed over the past couple of decades, each one a hidden tax taking money from our pockets. The creation of the Environmental Protection Agency is a perfect example. It is government out of control and in it’s quest to save rats, mosquitoes, plants, flies, lizards and hundreds of other endangered life forms, it has trampled on the property rights of individuals and, therefore, our constitution. The EPA’s budget request for 2010 is $10,500,000,000. That’s $30 dollars for every man, woman, and child in this country!

Now, you might think this is a small price to pay for the protection of our environment, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. This is the money the EPA uses to enforce its rules and regulations on every aspect of our lives. Businesses that have to make investments in expensive technology or face heavy fines, landowners who suddenly find themselves in the path of some migratory vermin and lose the right to use their land as they see fit, all costs that are passed on to us.

If you’ve purchased a new home in the last twenty years, you have probably paid a hidden tax of $20,000 or more that has been tacked on to the price of your home to cover the costs of complying with EPA regulations! Still not too bad you say. Well, The EPA is only one agency. There are many more federal agencies and multiple California agencies with overlapping responsibilities, all with massive budgets and all enforcing regulatory expenses on us.

It’s easy to get caught up in the new “Green” stampede because nobody wants to see the extinction of any forms of life, but extinction is a vital part of the process! It’s called evolution! And don’t be turned off by the term evolution, it is only a manifestation of god’s universal law “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” The environment changes (action) and life forms adapt (reaction).

The next time you are asked to protect the “Delhi Sands Fly” or the “Vernal Pool Fairy Shrimp,” ask yourself; do I really want to spend more of my money in an attempt to thwart god’s plan?