Most people – regardless of where they see themselves on the political spectrum – have a vested interest in protecting the environment and our planet. Hey, after all, it’s the only one we’ve got.

This desire to rid the planet of carbon emissions and every type of pollution one could imagine has of late come in the form of many pie-in-they-sky ideas, many of which were not feasible and come at a great expense to our pocketbooks.

If you’re reading this rant, you may be in a country with a year-round warm climate or one where the weather is usually temperate. If you’re in Canada or some other nation where it is imperative to heat one’s home at least eight months out of the year, there’s a strong chance you and I are in agreement.

In Canada, especially since the current Liberal regime took power in 2015, there has been, for want of a better term, an all-out war on oil and gas, especially oil and gas that which comes from Western Canada, the economic driver of this country.

If two years of economic malaise brought about by the pandemic weren’t enough for the average working stiff to deal with, governments at all levels just had to rub more salt into the proverbial wound (after causing levels of inflation not seen in decades) by imposing carbon taxes and levies which have put even more pressure on people who are already barely making ends meet.

While I firmly believe that electric vehicles may someday be the norm, petroleum (which ironically is needed to make the parts for electric vehicles) is not going away anytime soon.

While many in the green movement have nothing but the best of intentions, many are out of touch with current realities. Let’s say, for sake of an argument, that within the next few years the entire country, no, make that the world, makes the transition to electric vehicles. Despite the fact that our current generation and distribution systems could not realistically cope with so much electricity being used (which naturally would cause numerous rolling brownouts and blackouts in the cities), such an ‘inconvenient truth’ does nothing to stop these idealogues.

Earlier this year, the government of Norway had to tell residents to stop charging their cars between the hours of 8-9 a.m. due to shortages of electricity. The country was hitting 24 gwh, which caused the price of energy to increase by 600 percent.

A little closer to home, residents of California have been affected by the state’s radical green agenda, over the past decade seeing their electricity bills rising by as much as 30%.

As with so many other initiatives designed only to affect the plebes and not the elites, the radical climate change agenda, which many of our politicians have embraced, has caused them to adopt a ‘do as I say not as I do mentality.’

Airports in many parts of the world right now (especially Canada) can be described as chaos. In their quest to cleanse the world of fossil fuels, the greenies, rather hypocritically, take no issue with themselves globetrotting all over the planet. This was evident during The United Nations climate change summit in Glasgow, Scotland, in October and November of 2021. And you can guarantee the planes these elites flew on to get over there were not powered by alternative fuel sources.