The cost of Obama's green power push.

Dina Cappiello and Matt AQpuzzo wrote a story entitled "The secret, dirty cost of Obama's green power push." It is a story carried by AP, but I saw it on BARCHART. It is another disaster story of the Obama regime's making.

The addition of ethanol to gasoline was supposed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, supposedly to combat the phantom "global warming." As is common with most programs pushed by Progressives, it made matters worse. Experts who warned about the harmful effects of increasing ethanol production from corn were silenced. The Progressives plowed ahead. Five million acres of conservation land were plowed, resulting in increased soil erosion, loss of wild life habitat and increased run off into the Gulf of Mexico, where organic effluents kill the fish. Just as wind mills kill eagles in the West, the cost of "green" power must be measured in all its disasters. As with ObamaCare, Obama and his cohorts knew of the coming disasters but they lied about it.

Meanwhile, a golden opportunity to produce safe, cheap and clean power was once again scuttled. Thorium cycle power plants can not be used to produce fissionable material, recycle their waste and shut down automatically and safely if coolant power is interrupted. It is not important to combat carbon dioxide, but should we ever have to, thorium-cycle atomic power plants produce very little carbon dioxide.

The damage caused by this regime grows higher every day.