Schools, Greenpeace, and government safety and fuel standards to blame for energy crisis?

Articles — By forcechange on November 11, 2008 11:26 am

 

Fair and Balanced Hannity and Colmes interviewed climate change denier Chris Horner yesterday.  Some of the highlights: 

Horner complained that “As a father of young children, I don’t think it’s funny anymore. More than half of the UK school children polled reported that they lost sleep at night, terrified over catastrophic manmade global warming that’s being indoctrinated into their heads by the schools.”

He also claimed that “Greenpeace was stealing my trash” and that someone tried to kill a scientist he knows who denies climate change, noting, “One scientist at the University of Oslo had the wheels fall off his car, not once, but twice, including while his daughter was in the car after he began speaking out against global warming alarmism. They started sending pizza to his house. That didn’t intimidate him. So they loosened the lug nuts on his car.”

Hannity, joined in by blaming our energy dependency on the government, stating, “You know, [the US government has] safety mandates. They’ve got CAFE standards that we’ve discussed at length here. Bad trade policy. And that has put them in a very difficult position where they can’t even compete. Meanwhile, foreign countries can compete here in this country. You know, now they’re struggling because of the government policies.” 

So from this interview, it sounds like schools, Greenpeace, and government safety and fuel standards are to blame for our energy and environmental crisis?  Riiiight.