If they had taken their time and worked out the math it should have been obvious to them before they ever pushed their "solution" onto the world. The problem was and is that they hate "fossil fuels" so much that they were blinded to the naysayers' objections. They dismissed them out of hand and attempted to discredit them at every turn. At the time they tried to pin blame on the naysayers for the problems they were trying to solve. Now they blame others when the policy they prescribed turns out to be even worse than what those naysayers claimed they would be. They refuse to accept responsibility for their poorly reasoned actions or their bullying behavior and the results of it. They should know that once a government program gets going it has billions of dollars in intertia to overcome to stop it. People will think you're crazy for trying to eliminate even a bad government program. All the money is part and parcel of politics. That should be obvious. Government is not your pal. It isn't your friend. Or your nanny. Or daddy. Or big benevolent brother. Once government commits to something it is committed to it. And plenty are willing to grease the wheel$$$ to keep it going. So blame this one or that one but the environmentalist own this one from start to finish. And I'm seeing a pattern. Act now, think later. Stupid then, and it's stupid now. All the "deniers" (naysayers, obstructionists - whatever other pejorative you can come up with) play an important role. They make you think about every angle - if you are inclined to think about it. The consequences of bad policy are sometimes worse than doing nothing. That's important to remember at any time, especially before massive changes in policy that will literally impact every person on the planet - many, and especially the poor, in a very bad way. Ethanol took food off many people's table - literally or from price increases in corn or in dairy and livestock prices, etc;... The same will absolutely and undeniably be true of any climate change initiative. Most likely, lives will be lost. Lives will be affected by a poorer quality of life. The worst effected will be the most poor. Also undeniable. That's something that should give anyone pause to think long and hard about the impacts. But, hey! If it's someone "over there" dying and suffering, who gives a rip, right?
