Environmentalism Not About
the Earth But About Control
By
Dr. Frederick Meekins
Fellow Of Worldview Studies
The Issachar Institute For The Study Of Apologetics & Policy
Environmentalism Not About the Earth But About
Control
For decades, American motorists have been subjected to
propaganda insisting that they either need to drive less or give up
safe, comfortable automobiles in favor of what amount to
motorized coffins in order to preserve natural resources and
environmental quality. Now that this policy goal is pretty much
on the road to being implemented, the elites running our lives are
not content to sit back in the glow of their accomplishment but
are rather laying the groundwork for the next phase in their
grand dream of limiting the free movement of the American
people.
One would think the increasing popularity of electric and hybrid
automobiles would please transportation planners and social
engineers. However, as most realize somewhere along life's
journey, getting what you want is not always what you expected.
For while hybrid cars might cut back on emissions and fuel
consumption, they also take a bite out of gas tax revenues. But
instead of tightening their belts and learning to make due with
less as they counsel you when you complain about rising fuel
costs, government planners are now conniving to pass the
hardship on to you by altering the way transportation taxes are
assessed.
Currently, such taxes are gathered in about the fairest way
possible (a concept seldom associated with taxes) by collecting
it in an innocuously private manner from those cautious enough
to pay in cash at the bump based upon how many gallons
acquired. However, from a plan being considered in Oregon,
motorized Americans will have to contend with another
governmental intrusion into their lives of Orwellian proportions.
Instead of collecting taxes on each gallon purchased, revenuers
plan to install censors at gas stations capable of reading the
gl