What is really the cost of "Going Green"?  It isn't the cost of buying recycled products.  It isn't the price of replacing incandescent light bulbs with energy saving florescent light bulbs.  It isn't using ethanol or purchasing a hybrid car.

It is the average family paying $1,000-$4,000 more per year in energy costs. It is an estimated 86% increase in electricity costs and 53% rise in gas prices. It is food prices skyrocketing because of energy costs. It is the gross domestic product being reduced by $200 billion annually.  So what, it's just numbers.  No it is an estimated 1-7 million job loss for US citizens in the next 14 years.  14 years is not that far away. This is not being chic or in style buying green products, thinking green. It is a loss of our freedom and a drastic lifestyle change.  And there is more.

What it is, is a much larger global plan to redistribute wealth from the rich development nations to jealous dictatorships who won't allow their own citizens to gain wealth through free markets.  It is the United Nations lurking in the background with over 50% of its membership consisting of countries with peoples whose rights have been repressed. It is another try at communism except on a global scale this time. It is environmental groups who really think the environment and nature (Gaia) should be worshiped instead of God.  It is the belief that every single creature living on earth is equal to man, hence no development of our own oil resources.

Everyone complains about George Bush and what a terrible president he has been.  Well one of the most significant and positive things he hasn't done is to sign the Kyoto Accord. The Kyoto Accord, backed by the United Nations, environmentalists and "High priest" Al Gore, would drive up the cost of modern living so much that everyone's lifestyles would be changed forever. The Kyoto Accord calls for drastically-reduced energy standards rolling emissions back to 7% below 1990 levels.  So, big deal.  That has nothing to do with me. Going back to 1990 energy growth plus 7% of that means going back to energy consumption before computers became a mainstay of the American economy. Real growth did not even start in the United States until the early 1990's.  Here is where the change really comes.

To meet these standards the US government will need to force down energy use and enforce a massive energy tax to drive down energy consumption.  There's no other way to force people to change their lifestyles so drastically than to tax the dickens out of them to force less energy consumption.  We can't afford high taxes and high food and high gas and heating. Are you looking forward to this yet?  Here comes the reduction in house size, fewer cars, more mass transportation, more smart growth (lots of people crammed into small spaces near their work or mass transportation) and smaller families (too many people live on earth and we're just as important as the rest of the animals).  Are you with me yet? Do you love it?

Don't buy into every "green scheme".  There's more there than recycled products, florescent light bulbs, hybrid cars and ethanol.  I haven't even touched on the Treaty for Biodiversity which Bush has thank heavens not signed.  More on that later. Please stay awake and think!