Marcia, contributor to the excellent web page What Would Founders Think has sent me another great post. This time it is on a subject near and dear to my heart…

Toilets, washing machines, laundry detergent, dishwashing soap, and now light bulbs have become a part of the green tyranny imposed by Washington. The land of the free and brave is now the land of bad plumbing, soiled clothes, dirty dishes, and toxic light bulbs.

Not only will inexpensive incandescent light bulbs be outlawed next year (the result of a 2007 bill passed by the Democratic Congress), but also federal law makes it illegal to harbor fugitive light bulbs. Whether Homeland Security will send hither swarms of officers to harass our people and confiscate their incandescents is as yet unknown. (Quick, hide the bulbs mother. The light brigades are coming!)

Something is seriously wrong here. The American standard of living has always been the highest in the world, but now we are madly peddling backwards. (It is necessary to peddle because Napolitano’s boss is close to achieving the $5 a gallon gas he’s always wanted.

Most of these mandates were imposed in the name of the international con game called global warming, or in political speak, climate change. In addition to restricting choice, these impositions are mostly self – defeating. It is necessary, for example, to increase both water and energy consumption in mostly futile attempts to get clothes and dishes clean.

It is possible that the IQs of Congressional Democrats are no bigger than their shoe sizes, but that doesn’t say much for the folks who elected them. Unless the comatose awakened in 2008 stay conscious in 2012 it will only get worse.

According to Transportation Weekly, the Obama administration is circulating a draft of a bill to require the study and implementation of a plan to tax automobile drivers based on miles driven. A Congressional Budget Office report, requested by Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), suggested that a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax could be tracked by installing electronic equipment on each car to determine how many miles were driven; payment could take place electronically at filling stations.

It’s the perfect storm: it would raise highway revenue, discourage driving, limit mobility, reduce fossil fuel consumption, and last, but not least, keep track of us.

In the old Soviet Union, people were routinely required to enter and leave public buildings through just one door, all others being locked. It made it easier to find and apprehend suspected enemies of the state. Stalin would have loved the VMT.

Speaking of Stalin and the old Soviet Union I found great column in Pravda (yes, that Pravda) last year that sums up the foolishness of the ‘green’ movement:

It can be safely said, that the last time a great nation destroyed itself through its own hubris and economic folly was the early Soviet Union (though in the end the late Soviet Union still died by the economic hand). Now we get the opportunity to watch the Americans do the exact same thing to themselves. The most amazing thing of course, is that they are just repeating the failed mistakes of the past. One would expect their fellow travelers in suicide, the British, to have spoken up by now, but unfortunately for the British, their education system is now even more of a joke than that of the Americans.

While taking a small breather from mouthing the never ending propaganda of recovery, never mind that every real indicator is pointing to death and destruction, the American Marxists have noticed that the French and Germans are out of recession and that Russia and Italy are heading out at a good clip themselves. Of course these facts have been wrapped up into their mind boggling non stop chant of “recovery” and hope-change-zombification. What is ignored, of course, is that we and the other three great nations all cut our taxes, cut our spending, made life easy for small business…in other words: the exact opposite of the Anglo-Sphere.

That brings us to Cap and Trade. Never in the history of humanity has a more idiotic plan been put forward and sold with bigger lies. Energy is the key stone to any and every economy, be it man power, animal power, wood or coal or nuclear. How else does one power industry that makes human life better (unless of course its making the bombs that end that human life, but that’s a different topic). Never in history, with the exception of the Japanese self imposed isolation in the 1600s, did a government actively force its people away from economic activity and industry.

Even the Soviets never created such idiocy.

Even the Soviets created such idiocy…