According to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, many of us are misbehaving. We are acting like teens by not acting the way the administration believes we should. His exact quote is…

“The American public…just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act. The American public has to really understand in their core how important this issue is. ”

This is coming from the man who has recommended that we paint our roofs white and have high gas prices so that we drive less. In terms of science, Chu is lost. He has been a strong critic of fossil fuels and buys into the myth that they are bad. The idea of global warming is a myth that has more in common with religious beliefs than with science. Chu is a firm believer in this myth. How a physicist who works with lasers, which require a huge amount of energy is qualified to know the economics of gasoline use or energy efficiency in homes is beyond me.

Chu’s research focuses on dealing with activity on the single molecule level. He won the Nobel prize for capturing atoms with laser beams. He may know how to accomplish that, where he has complete control in a lab,  but it is clear that it does not qualify him to make energy policy on a national level or how to raise children.

In his latest, he now is pushing the “smart grid”, which gives government control to energy use. Along with that control, he wants to RAISE the price of energy, in order to decrease its use.  Part of maintaining freedom will be access to energy WITHOUT government interference or restrictions. In a classic case of double speak, he wants to ‘lower the cost of electricity to the consumer by raising the fees”.  Any Southron who has a lick of sense can see through that one. A person does not save money by spending more for electricity. If he really wanted to lower cost, remove government controls on it. Allow energy to flow freely. Allow the free market to control costs, rather than artificial government interventions.

Chu’s ideas are another example of flawed science being touted by this regime. They have lied about health care, immigration, taxes, so now they lie to us about science.  It is clear that this regime has a truth impairment. They want to advance a political agenda even if it means lying about science and facts along the way.

It is also troubling that the regime has a ‘paternalistic’ mentality where they believe they know best. They are the ones to serve us, not us serve them. Given the mindset of viewing us as misbehavin’ teens, it follows that they will attempt using heavy handed tactics to ‘force us’ to behave in the way they want. Chu is used to controlling things in his laboratory. In the ‘real world’ people do not behave like atoms in a controlled environment, especially in the South.

The answer to this one, like most policies of this regime is to reduce government interference. We do NOT need smart grids, we do not need government regulations on energy, we do not need a centrally controlled energy policy. We need LESS government. We need less government regulations in this area. We need more free market solutions where private businesses find workable solutions based on ‘real’ science and not just theories based on religious beliefs.

Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah

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