Thomas Friedman Tells Us Plebians to Go Green?

Here we have another limousine liberal telling the rest of us to go green. I wonder what the carbon footprint is for Thomas Friedman. Look at this mansion! This guy must wear the biggest pair of underwear, in order to carry the huge set of balls that demands that we go green.

Here is an excerpt from his condescending article published by the even more condescending New York Times:

Become the Green Tea Party.

I’d be happy to design the T-shirt logo and write the manifesto. The logo is easy. It would show young Americans throwing barrels of oil imported from Venezuela and Saudi Arabia into Boston Harbor.

The manifesto is easy, too: “We, the Green Tea Party, believe that the most effective way to advance America’s national security and economic vitality would be to impose a $10 “Patriot Fee” on every barrel of imported oil, with all proceeds going to pay down our national debt.”

He goes on to add:

If we put a Patriot Fee on all of those imported barrels, we would use less, cease enriching bad regimes, strengthen our own dollar, make the air cleaner and the climate more stable, foster the exploitation of domestic and renewable energy sources, promote electric vehicles, help bring down the global price of oil (which hurts Iran and helps poor Africa), and we could use the revenue to shrink the deficit. It’s win, win, win, win, win, win ...

Really...you are going to pay down the debt by imposing $10 fee on every barrel of imported oil? My question is what are you going to do with the rampant, irresponsible spending by the statist in Washington D.C.? The fees will have to be a whole lot bigger than $10 dollars a barrel; and there isn't enough oil reserves in the world to pay for the monstrous spending by this Congress and Administration!

Friedman obviously hangs around like minded, self-righteous idiots who still believe in man made global warming. My suggestion to Mr. Friedman is to get out of the echo-chamber and read more reputable newspapers such as the U.K. Telegraph or the Guardian who has exposed this fraud.


He goes on to lament the Cap and Trade Bill that is languishing in congress:


The bipartisan energy bill is ready to go. It is far from perfect. Indeed, it is a shame the fossil fuel industries still have such a stranglehold on Congress. But it’s the best we’re going to get, and we have got to get started. However, without a centrist Green Tea Party movement — one that brings the same passion to cutting emissions that the Tea Party brings to cutting deficits — even this effort will never pass.


One republican does not make a bipartisan bill. Friedman decries the stranglehold of the fossil fuel industry on Congress? What about the special interest from universities and the green lobby? They make the "fossil fuel" industry look like a bunch of pikers!


The only fossils I see that spew pollution throughout the country is hypocrites like Thomas Friedman, Al Gore and the New York Times.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/opinion/25friedman.html?ref=opinion