We Had To Destroy The Environment To Save It

My goodness, there will be no love for the Associated Press when the Administration goes through this story

The secret, dirty cost of Obama’s green power push

November 12, 2013 7:18 AM ET
By By DINA CAPPIELLO and MATT APUZZO

CORYDON, Iowa (AP) – The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America’s push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump fertilizer into the water supply.
Even the cemetery that disappeared like an apparition into a cornfield.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way.
With the Iowa political caucuses on the horizon in 2007, presidential candidate Barack Obama made homegrown corn a centerpiece of his plan to slow global warming. And when President George W. Bush signed a law that year requiring oil companies to add billions of gallons of ethanol to their gasoline each year, Bush predicted it would make the country “stronger, cleaner and more secure.”
But the ethanol era has proven far more damaging to the environment than politicians promised and much worse than the government admits today.
As farmers rushed to find new places to plant corn, they wiped out millions of acres of conservation land, destroyed habitat and polluted water supplies, an Associated Press investigation found.
Five million acres of land set aside for conservation — more than Yellowstone, Everglades and Yosemite National Parks combined — have vanished on Obama’s watch.
Landowners filled in wetlands. They plowed into pristine prairies, releasing carbon dioxide that had been locked in the soil.

All of these subsidies and mandates (and a hell of a lot else, frankly) need to be eliminated and stripped out of that ungodly abomination that the the Farm Bill.

The corrupt alliance between the hyper-regulatory state and agribusiness must be pared back.

categories Biz, Gorebal Warming, Makes Ya Barf, Morality, Nanny State, Politics | | datetime November 12, 2013 8:43 am

3 Responses to “We Had To Destroy The Environment To Save It”

  1. tree hugging sister says:
    November 12, 2013 at 9:06 am

    But he LUBS the URF?!?!?!

  2. JeffS says:
    November 12, 2013 at 9:14 am

    I believe that the White House was pushing back against even before it was officially published.

    As for the Farm Bill … … it is one huge entitlement. Look at the milk subsidies. And the regulations that drive up milk prices. We are our own worst enemy.

  3. aelfheld says:
    November 12, 2013 at 12:07 pm

    Bam loves himself.

    Everyone & everything else?

    Not so much.

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