Happy Friggin' Earth Day!

Those who've read this site regularly I'm in the environmental business and know how environmental policy works. That said, I'm far from an environmentalist, which brings us to Earth Day and the celebration of the planet taking place in countries where people are fortunate and blessed enough to think about such things and not have to worry about finding a single cup of rice to feed their children.

Those who actually take Earth Day seriously are those who believe every single thing Al Gore says about global warming (now mostly called climate change because the temps have gotten cooler of late) and drive the carbon footprint-enlarging Prius to make themselves feel like they're better than you are.

In my work, I've cleaned up many of the most-polluted sites in the Northeast, sites that once posed real harm to humans and the environment, not a problem that is mostly made-up to give libs another issue to whine about like global warming.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for reducing energy usage but more because the environmentalist's have succeeded in handcuffing the oil industry by not allowing construction of new refineries or tapping new sites, thus leaving us at the mercy of terror-supporting nations like Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Listen, I want a cleaner planet and the US has the most stringent environmental regulations in the world. We are making unfathomable progress in cleaning up our environmental messes, but we still have a ways to go. Libs act like we are the world's biggest polluters because we didn't sign onto the Kyoto Protocols and their inane pacts. Believe me, had we signed on to Kyoto, the loss of jobs would have been enormous and impoverished people not only cling to guns and religion but don't care a wit about the environment.

Anyway, here's the first post I ever wrote about the GOP and environmental regulations.