Green Scams

This exclusive in the Washington Times is just a tiny example of the self-dealing and corruption inherent in that murky place where politics, junk science and business overlap.

Rep. Ed Perlmutter of Colorado [Democrat, in case you were wondering – Paco] inserted a provision into the recently passed House climate change bill that would drum up business for "green" banks, such as the one he has invested in and his family and a political donor helped found in San Francisco.

For a bigger (and fatter) example, there is, of course, Al Gore, and one can also add T. Boone Pickens* to the list. Everywhere, there are special pleaders looking to cash in on the climate change racket, and they have happily encountered a large number of AGW pimps in the form of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Obama administration, and possibly the Senate, most of whose members are working around the clock to cook up massive amounts of gravy for powerful constituents and donors.

Unfortunately for the rest of us, that gravy is derived from taxpayer drippings, carefully drained out of the cap-and-trade skillet. What many people fail to see is not only the extraordinarily high expenses that will be imposed on us as a result of this (and other) environmental legislation, but the diversion of our hard-earned tax dollars to special-interest boondogglists dedicated to addressing a bogus issue (but, nonetheless, lining their pockets with very non-bogus cash).

Can we ruin the economy? Yes we can!

*H/T: The Other McCain