Why the dramatically higher motorcycle death rate?
by Theresa Camoriano
I recently heard on the radio that the number of motorcycle fatalities in Kentucky is 50% higher so far this year than it was at the same time last year. The reporter said it is being attributed to better weather this year that is encouraging people to ride motorcycles more. I suspect the reason is very different. I think it is the high price of gasoline, which encourages people to ride motorcycles because they cannot afford to drive their cars. As the environmentalists chase their dream of high gasoline prices driving us to conserve gasoline, they should include in that dream a higher death toll, as people drive smaller vehicles that provide less protection in the event of an accident. They will not feel any sense of responsibility for those deaths, even though their policies will have been a primary cause, just as they do not feel any responsibility for the huge numbers of people who have died from malaria as a result of the outlawing of DDT. In their fairy-tale world of unicorns and pixie dust all that matters are their good intentions. The devastating results are just an unfortunate tragedy that could not be helped.
If only there were justice in this world, the people who promote these terrible policies would be the ones who suffer their bad effects, but that is not how it works. President Obama and his environmentalist friends ride in big, sturdy gas guzzlers, while lower income people, about whom he says he cares so much, get killed in the motorcycle accidents because they could not afford Obama’s high-priced gas.
We have the power to do something about this problem in November. We need to elect people who will allow drilling, fracking, pipelines, and the burning of coal to generate electricity. Elect people who will let the free market work to serve consumers. Elect people who have respect for the American people and who will not use their power to manipulate us and control our lives. We are supposed to be their masters, not their pawns. Let’s act like it!
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The Wall Street Journal today (April 11, 2012) reported that natural gas prices have dropped from a a high of $14 USD to a low of almost $2 in just four years as gas producers scramble for a place to store all the surplus gas. it turns out that one of the consequences of not having enough oil is they had to go after it differently. This led to fracking and now they have so much gas there is a very good arguement that coal will not remain king for long. In the short run this will be devastating to Kentuckians who under the leadership of our current governor opted not to study how to convert coal to synthetic fuel, something the German’s had to invent in WWII when the allies destroyed all their easy access to oil. So while countries like Malaysia and Qatar lead the world in modern synthetic fuel (super pure and super clean burning too) Kentucky keeps electing leaders who Forbes Magazine only ranks as the worst run state in the country.
Liberals claim to hate mountaintop removal of coal because they claim it is bad for the environment but they keep electing the same people who marshall in low tech answers that are 65 years too late. Does this make Hitler smarter than a KY state governement leader?
April 11th, 2012 at 4:03 pm