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Letter: Objective is to throttle America’s energy use

Editor, Gazette-Journal:

This will be my last letter on global warming; getting too much into the claims, counter-claims and personal level. The issue is that our federal government, backed by the well-financed, back-to-nature (and pre-industrial America) lobby, employing flawed and inadequate computer models, is using the false premise of man-caused global warming to scare the populace into allowing the waste of vast sums on near-worthless projects and the enactment of penalties, in the amassing of political power.

The money is doled out as carrots in large grants and direct financing to favored organizations specializing in “alternative” energy and supporting the government’s agenda—in turn for campaign contributions and turning out votes, of course. The stick side of the coin is ever-expanding regulation and penalties to curb “greenhouse gases,” which increasingly curb our freedom to choose how, and even where, we live. All of this requires cont...

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