Envirocrats are at it again

An envirocrat is an individual who, by the use of deception and outright lies, captures the moral high ground on any environmental movement within his grasp and corrupts it for his own use in creating substantial obstructions to the general economy of the nation. Ralph Nader is the envirocrat poster boy.
Envirocrats are not to be confused with honest, dedicated people who are motivated to support true environmental movements. These are the Americans who, by culture and heritage, love the flora and the fauna that surround their daily lives and want to protect it for the sake of their children and grandchildren. These are the dedicated citizens who pay their taxes to correct and improve the nation’s environment, actions for which the envirocrat never gives them credit.
The envirocrats have taken a thoroughly good, honest story about American industry and twisted it to suit their own cause. This time, as might be expected, they have taken the lead article in one of America’s top liberal publications, U.S. News and World Report (issue of 6/6/05), for their misleading spin.
Headline: “Can industry spread its green fever? - General Electric puts new focus on global warming.”
First paragraph: “Its high profile plan ... to boost environmental technology spending ... has begun to shift the political landscape in favor of action in climate change.”
The article continues, pointing out that the CEO of General Electric, Jeffrey Immelt, and other business leaders want the government to set clear goals on carbon emissions.
This is followed by a most astounding statement: “Most industry supporters would prefer a market-based system like that in the Kyoto treaty.”
The opposite is true. American industry is opposed to the Kyoto Treaty, which is nothing more than a global re-distribution of wealth taken from the United States and given, through the United Nations, to Third World countries at a direct cost to American industry of hundreds of billions of dollars a year. China, for example, is supposed to use this influx of American capital, contributed through the United Nations, to improve its own environment.
The following language gets more astounding: “... utilities that generate a large portion of their power through carbon-free nuclear energy ... would clearly gain in a system where they could sell credits (a Kyoto scheme) to their coal-fired competitors.”
This is a blatant lie. The money does not go to any domestic competitor. It goes to the United Nations for distribution to the Third World.
This last quote is double-speak of the first order. The envirocrat is the individual whose sociological and political pressure has denied America the use of atomic energy and forced the nation to use high pollution generating coal for 53 percent of its electrical needs.
Ralph Nader, in his campaign for the U.S. presidency in the year 2000, stated: “There never will be another nuclear power plant built on U.S. soil.”
The envirocrats have backed the American public into a corner, forcing fossil fuel pollution on the nation and at the same time denying the citizens of the U.S. access to the most pollution-free, safe, economical and cleanest method in the world to produce its electrical energy - atomic power.
The poorly informed and gullible American public has swallowed this political poison for decades.
Typical of envirocrat writers, Marianne Lavelle has placed the truth at the end of the article.
What the CEO of General Electric, Jeffrey Immelt, really talked about is found in the next to the last paragraph: “But he frankly admitted the goal was not altruistic, as the company aimed to double its revenue from clean technology to at least $20 billion in 2010. ‘We think green means green,’ Immelt said. “This is a time period where environmental improvement is going to lead toward profitability. This is not a hobby to make people feel good.’ Federal carbon standards, for example, would create more demand for GE technologies in wind power, natural gas turbines, cutting-edge coal gasification, and, most controversial, nuclear power plants (emphasis added).”
Additionally, CEO Immelt admits that green is a color, only.
GE has not caught cold from the global warming envirocrats; it has no green fever. It is doing what good American capitalists do: solving environmental problems, for which the envirocrats give them no credit.
Footnote: General Electric is now the only U.S.- owned company in a position to construct more energy plants on a large scale. Westinghouse Corporation, a principal builder of atomic energy plants in the past, was sold some years ago by its then owner CBS Communications to British Nuclear Fuels, owned by the British government.
British Nuclear Fuels is now engaged in the construction of some five atomic energy plants in China with a possibility of extending the contract to 30. Rumor has it that the United States could be involved for a portion of a $5 billion loan from international banking institutions for this project.
And now you know the rest of the story.