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Yes, I am very much concerned about proposed, planned and already enacted climate change policies of state and federal governments. They are an example of the maxim that government policy based on bad science produces bad policy which results in bad outcomes.

Not only will these climate change policies limit, either directly or indirectly, my lifestyle choices, but they will cause a decline in the living standards of everyone living today and for future generations to come. Ultimately there is the potential of destroying Western civilization as we know it, if nations try to follow through with the futile and unnecessary drastic cuts in man-made CO2 emissions as proposed by the UN sponsored Kyoto Protocol.

It is a credit to the USA that the Bush administration has refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol which is best described as a nightmare of confused religious thinking by the Loony Left. We should take heed of the wisdom of the American journalist, H.L. Menken, who in the 1920's commented "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it."

Here are few examples of the stupidity of current climate change policies:

Government subsidies for development of renewable energy such as production of ethanol from corn and other grains for reason that it is "cheaper" and saves on petroleum usage and provides a security of supply. The farmers love the idea and who cares if the price of grain skyrockets and this leads to food shortages and riots around the world, and starvation for many more millions of people in the third world.

The farm production of ethanol requires the input of more energy than it provides as a transport fuel in place of gasoline, so energy wise, you are going backwards. The unsubsidized cost is greater than the cost of gasoline. With regard to it being a "cleaner" burning fuel forget it, because, contrary to the climate change alarmists, CO2 gas is not an atmospheric pollutant but an essential fertilizer for crops and forests and does not cause global warming.

Government subsidy of wind farms and promotion of Green power is a misapplication of tax funds as it provides very expensive and unreliable electricity (compared to base-load gas and coal fired stations) besides the towers being a blot on the landscape and hazard to bird life. The land owners like the rental for doing nothing and electric companies profit well by manufacturing wind turbines. The global warming hysteria maintains this unnecessary activity for without it

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