I have been patiently waiting since the late 1970's to have my country and home burn up from global warming. I wanted to see New York city under 20 feet of water. We would have our own Venice right here on North America. I'm sad to report they have moved all those spectacular events out until 2030 and beyond.
     Personally, I believe it is all a hoax. I am told I must change my lifestyle to save the Earth. However, now, in the same breath, I'm told that it is too late, we are doomed. Which is it, people? We have a political party in collusion with environmental wackos who have set out to destroy our industrial might, our economy and our modern lifestyle.
    This crowd has been successful in stopping any new nuclear power generating plants, few, if any, new clean coal power plants, no new refineries, and severe restriction on drilling into our vast oil reserves. Our shale oil assets equal or surpass all of the Middle East's reserves. Ours is a country that runs on energy. This sad collection of politicians (Dems and RINO's) and environmental nuts, are aggressively making it more difficult to develop the very energy we need to grow our industry and prosper.
     With the gasoline lines of the 1970's in memory, instead of energy independence, we have increased our dependence.  We have been forced to buy more and more oil from foreign sources. Vast amounts of those dollars have flowed into the coffers of countries who wish us ill, or, simply put, want to destroy the USA.
     Our willingness to not develop our own energy sources in the name of the environment or any other reason is asinine. We are now well over 35 years behind in developing our own energy.
     At the moment, there is no viable clean alternative energy source currently ready to market. Now there is a lot of fantasy boutique combinations talked about ....such as taking a food staple and using it to compete as an energy source. That drives up the cost of corn (hello???). Never mind that the blend has it's own pollution problems, more so than plain old gasoline.
     This is a complex problem. Washington politicians have not risen to the task. I do not have confidence in Congress.  Instead, just as with Social Security, they have kicked the can down the road. Energy deprivation is a national security issue and the clock is running.