Thank God (and ExxonMobil) for Oil and Gas

To fund this money-saving program, Vermont would finally hold polluters accountable by putting an end to the fossil fuel companies’ practice of using our atmosphere as their dumping ground for free. Instead, oil and gas companies would pay a tax based on the global warming impact of their pollution. (Paul Burns, Vermont Public Interest Research Group)

The money-savings program that VPIRG's Paul Burns is referring to is .... a tax on carbon to be paid by consumers. The logic of that is mind-boggling but Burns and fellow tax lovers will go on to explain how the taxes collected will actually be used for all sorts of government programs (solar panels, weather stripping, etc.) that will actually end up saving tax payers money. 

You believe him, don't you?

Let's address another issue though, namely the big bad fossil fuel companies. The intent in demonizing oil and gas companies is obviously to put them on a par with cigarette companies, for example, who sell a dangerous, though also entirely legal product. But while everyone alive can survive without cigarettes, no one (in the modern world anyway) can live without oil and gas. The car you drive, the house you live in, your phone, your computer, your food, everything that has helped usher in the modern age and bring the human race out of our primordial existence is a result of fossil fuels. Demonize oil and gas companies? We should be thanking them!

If you disagree, then unbundle yourself from everything made or sustained by oil and gas and live your life without. Otherwise you are a hypocrite.