The Cost of Global Warming Greed

July 8, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

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Al Gore’s net worth, which went from around 2 million to over a 100 million dollars

The Cost of Global Warming Greed

Daniel Greenfield; Bio

By Daniel Greenfield  Wednesday, July 8, 2009

How do you make money? You could build a factory that makes chairs or open a store that sells chairs. But of course if you’re in the government, you make money by finding new sources of tax revenue, which helps justify giving yourself a salary hike. But what if you’re not officially in the government? That’s what pork is for, and while environmentalists don’t seem to like cows very much, they do love their pork.

“Green” is more like pink thanks to the kind of pork embedded in Obama’s stimulus package. The billions ladled out for everything from green jobs to making buildings green to green energy helped shove whopping fistfuls of money into the pockets of environmental consulting groups and companies.

Tesla Motors, a much hyped company which doesn’t so much produce cars as magazine articles about itself, got nearly half a billion in federal funding. This for a company that makes six figure sports cars assembled in the UK and powered by shopping carts full of laptop batteries that virtually no one has actually driven. Not to mention a company with an embattled leadership, embroiled in numerous lawsuits, which prior to the 465 million in Federal funds was firing its employees through text messages, because it was down to 9 million dollars in the bank.

Is there really a good reason why half a billion dollars in Federal funds should be paying for luxury sports cars for the rich and famous to be assembled by British workers, whose key corporate investor is Mercedes Benz? Of course there is, because Tesla is “Green” and “Green” is unquestionable.And the same people who view the Ford Explorer as “immoral” for popularizing suburban family SUV’s, think that a six figure sports car powered by over 6000 laptop batteries is as “moral” as it gets.

“Green” is not about science, it is about the color of money. It is about greed and class. To understand “Green” and the entire absurdity of man-made global warming, you don’t need to look at charts and figures. You just need to look at Al Gore’s net worth, which went from around 2 million to over a 100 million dollars. Gore didn’t make that money building homes for orphans, he made that money by promoting a crisis and investing heavily in the companies that would stand to profit from it….(Full Story)

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