Thomas Friedman and the Price of Gas

Once again, the Left admits their purpose in life to destroy the American way of life. Once again the Left admits their real purpose in gasoline prices. It is not about freedom folks. It is about despotism. Here is Thomas Friedman with Bob Schieffer.

BOB SCHIEFFER: Bill Daley, the White House chief of staff, said on Meet the Press this morning that one of the options now is to consider using oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve in order to bring down the price of gasoline in this country. Does that make sense to you?

THOMAS FRIEDMAN: That would rank in my top five worst ideas of 2011 so far. I think that there's one thing we should finally be doing is using this opportunity to have a credible energy policy that begins to reduce our addiction to oil.

Gasoline is almost $4 a gallon. We know that's a red line where people really start to change their behavior. At a minimum, I'd be talking about a tax that basically says we're going to keep it at $4. If it goes below we'll true it up, if it goes above that we're not going to touch it. Maybe say we're not going to implement it until 2012. So you signal people it's going to be coming, you don't change the – you don't harm the economy today but you get people to change their behavior.

Bob, if we don't to that, going forward the difference between a good day and a bad day for America is how the 86-year-old king of Saudi Arabia basically manages this reform process. That's where we're putting ourselves. We're putting ourselves in the hands of probably the most frail, antiquated regime in the Middle East. They will be setting your gas price.

I realize this still doesn't convince my "pragmatic" friends who really believe the earth needs to be saved. But as even Green Peace leaders have admitted, this is not about saving the earth. It is about destroying Capitalism. This is about controlling your behavior to the way they want you to live. If it were really about oil shortages, then why not drill? Oh wait! That solution leads to freedom, and we can't have that!

NYTimes Editorial On Global Warming

In this New York Times article, In Climate Denial, Again, the NYTimes actually still thinks that Climate Deniers are just ignoring the mountain of evidence against them.

The candidates are not simply rejecting solutions, like putting a price on carbon, though these, too, are demonized. They are re-running the strategy of denial perfected by Mr. Cheney a decade ago, repudiating years of peer-reviewed findings about global warming and creating an alternative reality in which climate change is a hoax or conspiracy.

Peer-reviewed? We now know that is a big lie. We now know that certain scientists fooled the entire world with the help of Big-government. We now know that science is on the verge of losing all credibility. Yet this editorialist acts as if nothing has recently rocked the scientific world with the leaking of e-mails that prove beyond the shadow of any doubt that science has been corrupted by millions of dollars.

The editorial goes on to say,

In one way or another, though, all are custodians of a strategy whose guiding principle has been to avoid debate about solutions to climate change by denying its existence — or at least by diminishing its importance.

Avoid debate? Global Warming deniers have been shut out of the debate as the previous paragraph so mockingly demonstrates. It really is a shame that one can cite Former Brittish Prime minister Tony Blair as one being in favor of Global Warming when the overwhelming information about the Global Warming Fraud comes from the Brittish press. Perhaps the NYTimes needs to read some news papers.