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   each of Gore's three mansions use more electricity in   
   a month than 6 average British homes would use in a year.   
   and he flies around on a private jet at will.   
      
      
   A fool's errand: Al Gore's $15 trillion carbon tax   
      
   Al Gore wants to reverse modernity and save the world from itself   
   through an elimination of its fossil-fuel-based energy system. During   
   the final week of April, his newly created Energy Transitions   
   Commission released a document setting forth a fool's-errand pathway to   
   "decarbonize" the world's energy system.   
      
   If this sounds familiar, it is. Gore's plan features a new, sophisticated, and   
   expensive public-relations campaign, but it's all based on his views on carbon   
   dioxide first broached in his 1992 book Earth in the Balance, which he   
   reissued in 2000 for his    
   failed presidential campaign. The subsequent efforts made by Gore during the   
   past 25 years have transformed little from their genesis, and he remains as   
   tragically wrong today as he was when he first surfaced as an opponent of   
   everything linked to carbon-   
   dioxide.   
      
   If you scroll through the verbiage surrounding the document, you will find the   
   core policy recommendation is a massive, punishing carbon tax. Gore would   
   start the tax at $50 per ton, which would increase to $100 per ton over time,   
   essentially destroying    
   the market for continued robust development of the world's fossil-fuel base.   
   Our economic growth and personal well-being depends on robust fossil-fuel use,   
   so Gore's plan would destroy these as well.   
      
   But, don't worry! The all-in estimated cost to re-engineer humanity is only a   
   mere $15 trillion—enough money to give every man, woman, and child in the   
   United States more than $46,000.   
      
   Al Gore has been demonizing fossil fuels and attempting to marginalize all   
   those involved in the traditional energy sector since 1988, the year the   
   climate-change movement was rolled out in Washington, D.C., which happened to   
   correspond with a nationwide    
   heatwave and with Yellowstone in flames. Ever since, Gore's pathway to   
   political power and personal riches has been a successful one, to be sure, but   
   his multi-trillion-dollar effort today is his most sophisticated effort to   
   date. Unfortunately for him,    
   it will also fail, because what he's selling in his "new" proposal is bad for   
   the people being asked to embrace it.   
      
   Over the years, Gore has emerged in many contexts in his effort to eradicate   
   carbon-dioxide emissions, a benign gas required for all life to thrive on   
   Earth—plant, animal, and human alike. It has never mattered to Gore that   
   ordinary people everywhere    
   have been hurt and will continue to be hurt by his continual efforts to make   
   fossil-fuel energy expensive and that the poorest among us are harmed the most   
   by the energy policies he supports.   
      
   The anti-humanity proposals in Gore's latest initiative have as one of their   
   chief goals the elimination of fossil fuels, full stop. Gore does allow for   
   greater use of natural gas into the 2030s, but he eliminates coal right away.   
   He also allows for oil    
   use to grow into the mid-2020s, but "decarbonize" means just that; his plan   
   inevitably ends with a phase-out of fossil-fuel use. Fortunately for us   
   all—and make no mistake about it, the American people understand this—the   
   fossil-fuel-free future Gore    
   imagines is not supported by observation-based science, and it is contradicted   
   by all the evidence we have gained from recorded human history.   
      
   April 22 was the 47th anniversary of the first Earth Day, which occurred in   
   1970. Since that day, the number of people on Earth has increased from 3.7   
   billion to 7.5 billion, and average life expectancy for all the world's people   
   has risen by 11 years,    
   to 67 years old. Likewise, food production has soared and energy production   
   and consumption, mostly thanks to fossil fuels, has increased by more than   
   four times.   
      
   Since the first Earth Day, the natural environment has improved substantially,   
   through urbanization, and the biosphere and agriculture are more robust. Earth   
   is greener, because of the additional carbon dioxide in the air, as numerous   
   studies now show.   
      
   Since the first Earth Day, the flawed computer models backed by radical   
   environmentalists have failed continuously, and we now know they can never   
   serve as a reliable tool to make policy judgements governing the future of   
   human life on Earth.   
      
   And since the first Earth Day, we can now say with confidence that all these   
   positive developments have resulted from, or are closely linked to, the robust   
   use of fossil fuels, including oil, natural gas, and coal.   
      
   The world is blessed with an abundance of fossil-fuel reserves, which allow   
   the billions of people alive today and the billions yet to come to enjoy   
   longer and better lives. They will continue to provide additional energy to   
   grow food, resources to build    
   cities, and by helping urbanization, they will allow the natural environment   
   to improve, as it has for decades.   
      
   Gore's $15 trillion carbon tax should and will be rejected for the phony,   
   radical environmental vision it represents.   
      
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