With the entire AGW fraud coming to light, some are starting to abandon the idea of job killing, tax increasing, and lifestyle limiting legislation. After all, why save the world from an imaginary tragedy? Kindly consider this from Redstate.
BP America, Conoco Phillips, and Caterpillar (among others) have announced their intentions to quit the Climate Action Partnership, a group whose mission is to “call on the federal government to enact legislation requiring significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.”
BP American says it “intends to go solo in its quest to influence the national discussion on climate change.” Conoco says it’s quitting to “focus on reducing near-term greenhouse gas emissions by developing its natural gas operations.” Caterpillar says it wants “to focus on commercializing technologies that it said would accomplish the same goals pursued by U.S. CAP.”
What they didn’t say was said for them by Myron Ebell, Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (”a public interest group dedicated to free enterprise and limited government”):
BP America, Conoco Phillips, and Caterpillar are recognizing that cap-and-trade legislation is dead in the U. S. Congress and that global warming alarmism is collapsing rapidly. We hope that other major corporations will soon see the light and drop their support for cap-and-trade and other energy-rationing legislation.
What also wasn’t mentioned in any of the articles about BP, Conoco, and Caterpillar is that lawsuits are starting to pop up challenging the EPA’s so-called Global Warming regulations specifically because of new revelations that man-made climate change is a lie and has been uncovered as a hoax and a generation-long falsehood:
In two separate filings Tuesday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute challenged massive energy regulations forthcoming from the Environmental Protection Agency. The actions come in the wake of damaging disclosures this week by Phil Jones, head of the disgraced British Climate Research Unit, who reversed himself on several basic issues in a BBC interview.
So, I have no idea why these companies were supporting the very thing that would eventually put them all out of business, unless they were thinking that they would be saved or actually profit from their cooperation. At any rate, it’s a good thing that AGW is loosing more and more of its “sponsorship.”
The “SS AGW” is sinking, with more holes than the Titanic. People are now abandoning ship. I’ll throw a party when in finally slips beneath the waves.
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Matt
I believe that future generations should have the same opportunities that myself, and those that came before me, had. My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted to do. I don’t want to have to tell my daughter, “You can do whatever the government tells you to do.” We are at a crossroads in this country; are we going to be free, or are we going to be slaves to the nanny state. I choose freedom.
I think that these companies were only supporting it for public relations reasons in the first place but with the public turning against the global warming alarmist they now feel free to state their true opinions. The world is caving in on the alarmists but we still have the EPA to worry about.
You’re probably right, there is no other rationale for doing so.
Read Atlas Shrugged and you’ll see that the very industries that strangling government regulation killed in that book have put forth very willing partners of their own demise because they thought that playing ball with the government was in their and society’s best interest. In the end, they were just as guilty of being looters as the government … and they perished right along with it.
I’ll get to that book eventually. Everyone has been talking so much about it.
Yep, it is the “seat at the table” theory of being in bed with big gubbermint…
Short term gain, long term pain.
That it is. It’s happened before. Industry supports a candidate or party, thinking that in their cooperation, they can control outcomes. Then, they lose control, and terrible things happen.
…and the cost is passed onto the consumer.
Very True Don, all costs are paid by the end user.
You know Matt, some of these companies actually jump in bed with the government to gain the upperhand on their competitors. GE is doing it with the green energy and healthcare. Basically, if you can gain any sort of advantage over your competition, well a little socialism never hurt anyone…at least in their eyes. This is the way businesses in Europe work with the EU all the time. We’re just lagging a bit behind the EU model. Don’t worry Obama will get us caught up.
Good post my friend.
Thank you John. That seems to be the model.
Great post Matt.
I tried to leave a comment last night but for some reason when I hit submit it didn’t take. I just wanted to add that I think a great number of these corporations that jump in bed with the government do so for a few reasons. The main reason I see is to gain an advantage over their competitors. Hey if they can inlfuence legislation that hurts the competition why not jump on board.
Another reason I feel companies align their strategic goals with that of the government is because they fear that being on the outside looking is is far worse than being on the inside.
I still think we need to take a fresh look at that Surpreme Court ruling on allowing the EPA to regulate “green house gases” in light of the new climategate issue.
John, Akismet, the built-in spam blocker for WordPress, has ID’d you as a spammer. When you post, and then try to post again, it conforms it to the software. Just post once, and I’ll approve it when I see it. Eventually, it’ll let your comments through. It happened to Don too, and he’s a registered user!