Morgan Griffith on Cutting Carbon Emissions

From U.S. Representative Morgan Griffith (R-VA-9), editorial comment below:

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ICYMI: Griffith Op-Ed in Roanoke Times“Innovation Will Reduce Carbon Emissions”

Wednesday, March 20, 2019 – Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) wrote the following op-ed for the Roanoke Times outlining his plan to reduce carbon emissions: Innovation will reduce carbon emissions A recent letter to the editor claimed that I had not offered a plan to address climate change as an alternative to the “Green New Deal.” This is incorrect. The writer would find in my weekly newsletter, comments in committee and on the House floor, press statements, and elsewhere dozens of calls for research, technological innovation, and “all of the above” energy policies. I believe any effective plan to counter climate change must be based in science, rely on America’s technological strengths and bountiful natural resources, and have a global vision. I have supported policies that meet these criteria, but the Green New Deal fails on each count and cannot be taken seriously as a way to improve the environment. To continue reading the op-ed, please click here.

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Editorial comment: Dang straight.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "Green New Deal" is neither Green nor new, nor is it rational. It is the effusion of a little girl who may have noticed about Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy but still believes the Marxist fairy tale: "When people don't have to make decisions, be responsible, own property, earn money, or behave like adults in any other meaningful way, they'll be as happy and as good as little children are!" Anyone who still believes that, will believe anything, and really has no business in Washington even as a student.

Congressman Griffith has consistently shared with this web site several thoughts on energy technology. (That all of them have not appeared here is my fault: I read too many e-mails and don't get through them while they still qualify as news.) I'm sure every reader in the Ninth District would rank those thoughts differently if asked to say exactly which ones we found more credible than others. This is to be expected since the Ninth District includes Gate City and Martinsville, and all those other towns as well. In any case there's been no room for doubt that our man in Washington has given a lot of thought to diversifying our historic common interest in energy production. Newsletter material reposted at this web site can be found quickly by clicking on the labels "coal," "electricity," or "energy" at the bottom of this post.

The Roanoke Times' correspondent may have overlooked the fact that the Ninth District is already doing more than the rest of our Commonwealth is doing to address "climate change" simply by staying rural. Most of us do indisputably drive too much, and some of us may even still be burning coal at home, but we are still dramatically cooler than Washington, Richmond, or Norfolk--all year!