Thomas Friedman Will Be Here All Week . . .
November 18, 2009
and—try the veal:
If you follow the debate around the energy/climate bills working through Congress you will notice that the drill-baby-drill opponents of this legislation are now making two claims. One is that the globe has been cooling lately, not warming, and the other is that America simply can’t afford any kind of cap-and-trade/carbon tax.
But here is what they also surely believe, but are not saying: They believe the world is going to face a mass plague, like the Black Death, that will wipe out 2.5 billion people sometime between now and 2050. They believe it is much better for America that the world be dependent on oil for energy — a commodity largely controlled by countries that hate us and can only go up in price as demand increases — rather than on clean power technologies that are controlled by us and only go down in price as demand increases. And, finally, they believe that people in the developing world are very happy being poor — just give them a little running water and electricity and they’ll be fine. They’ll never want to live like us.
Yes, the opponents of any tax on carbon to stimulate alternatives to oil must believe all these things because that is the only way their arguments make any sense.
Then he went on to say that the renewables are optimized right now, so we don’t need to buy any more time with fossil fuels. And that this country would be awesome if it were only more like China. And that everyone but he himself, John Edwards, and Al Gore should live in modest, fuel-efficient dwellings.
Actually, I have no idea what he said, since I didn’t have time to skim it. But I’m sure I covered some of it in the prose above.
Oh, and—the Earth is flat, except for the parts around Friedman Manor.
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