I am one who believes we should do all in our power (without being extreme) to save / manage our natural resources and reduce our impact on the planet. I have children and grandchildren and I want the same quality of life I had (or better.)

On the other hand, however, I think it’s reprehensible how these groups hold the entire country (and by extension, the entire world) hostage by disrupting our economy and degrading our way of life.

When you look at the way a few extremists (in this case environmental extremists)begin to have such a profound negative impact on the quality of life for everyone, you have to wonder how much different they are than the religious extremists of the middle east.

Both have a desire to push their particular agenda on the rest of the world. Both their actions result in a disruption life as we know it. Both are willing to use whatever methods they deem necessary. Both think their cause is the right cause, and as such are willing to push their “rights” (the rights of the few) in front of everyone else’s “rights” (the rights of the many.)

I’m no constitutional lawyer, but I wonder when the rights of the few became more important than the rights of the many?

I believe congress should do everything in their power to stimulate alternative energy solutions. I believe we should get away from gasoline / oil as a fuel source altogether. But I believe there is a right way and a wrong way to accomplish that. Holding the world hostage is not the way.

Big money “environmental” lobbies have become a type of organised quasi-criminal professional force for extortion. Increasingly, they exist to feed their own coffers, and will use any tactic to do so. Too many of them provide virtually no beneficial social service anymore.