Are they going after Oxygen next?

By Elmer Beauregard

After successfully taxing CO2 and deeming it a pollutant, what's next for Al Gore and his chronies? I'm afraid they might go after the other life giving gas... Oxygen.

Yesterday, Cap and Trade Legislation narrowly passed the House and I assume will sail through the Senate (unless they get struck by a bolt of intelligence). So when it does, will Al Gore and the Sierra club finally be satisfied? I doubt it, if you're the Sierra Club and you accomplish all that you set out to do, do you just pack up your tent and move on? There has to be something else, the next big thing, and I'm going to give it to them... Oxygen.

Taxing CO2 and not Oxygen is like taxing Abbott but not Costello, Dean but not Martin. Plants, through photosynthesis take CO2 and turn it into Oxygen, and conversely animals take that Oxygen and turn it back into CO2. Now one might think that God came up with a pretty good design, a symbiotic relationship between animals and plants where the more of either of these gasses produces more life.

But these days you don't hear much about God and his design anymore, now man is in control of nature, not God. We cause the sun to shine and the clouds to come, we are responsible for droughts and floods, not God. We are the ones that are causing the Oceans to rise and the Poles to melt. Yes, it is mankind in ever increasing numbers that is causing the destruction of the planet, so let's get to the root of the problem... Oxygen.

No fire can burn without Oxygen, no factory or coal powered plant can pump out CO2 if it doesn't have Oxygen to burn. No SUV can pull a boat to the cabin without Oxygen. Gasoline is only half of what is being burned inside those giant cylinders, the other half is Oxygen. That is what a carburetor or a fuel injector does, it mixes liquid Gasoline with Oxygen before it is burned.

I leave you with this thought: two thirds of every CO2 molecule pumped into our atmosphere is... Oxygen.