Thank you, Mr. Gore

Well, it looks like Betty Clair and I will have to spend hundreds of dollars on unnecessary car repairs, again. Thanks to all the hippies and tree-huggers, the state of Tennessee has an emissions test that all automobiles must pass in order to apply for a state license plate. The "Check Engine" light was on in both of our vehicles when we moved here; thus, we automatically fail the aforementioned test. The state completely disregards the fact that both of our automobiles are running perfectly fine and that neither one of them is actually polluting more than any other typical vehicle on the road. The heinous offense we have commited is that we simply allowed that dreaded little orange light to show up on the dashboard. Now we are forced to empty our wallets to change that in a desperate attempt to help save Mother Earth.

A couple of months ago, we has to spend about $800 on my truck alone to get the repairs done to turn my warning light off. Now, it appears that we will have to spend even more to repair Betty Clair's car. The mechanic, seemingly in a regretful manner, simply said, "Welcome to Tennessee." I'm sure he and many others in his profession have seen this circumstance many, many times since this initiative was implemented. Owners of safe, well-running cars and trucks are forced to spend gross amounts of money every year to have minor changes made to their car so this test can be passed and we don't burn up the planet with all our carbon use.

This frustrating dilemma exists due to things like the agenda being pushed by Al Gore and other crooks in his line of work. It is difficult to comprehend how this state program does very much to actually reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere. (It's actually not even a pollutant, but that topic requires another post entirely.) My truck is running exactly the same now as it did before we spent hundred of dollars on it, and I am quite certain that Betty Clair's car will respond the same way. We simply have to spend these exorbitant amounts of money so that Mr. Gore and his cohorts can sleep easier at night since they feel as if they are saving Mother Earth. I don't think he would pretend to care quite as much if his bank account didn't benefit greatly from this cause. However, he certainly makes sure that his own comfort isn't compromised by any of these standards, though, as evidenced by the fact that he leaves his car idling during speeches so that it is nice and cool upon his return. Additionally, his electricity bill at his personal residence here in Nashville shows more electricity usage in a month than the average home does in an entire year. That doesn't seem very eco-friendly to me. How is it that he is able to help impose these silly restrictions on average Americans in hopes of saving the planet, but he is the biggest (again, pun intended) hypocrite around when it comes to his own affairs? Will the mainstream media ever call him out on it? That doesn't seem likely. Now, he is also even calling for acts of civil disobedience as a means to prevent construction of new coal plants. Yes, he is encouraging people to break laws to further his cause. I don't think he would do so himself, though. That would require too much energy, and maybe his excuse is he doesn't want to breathe too hard and pollute the air with all his carbon, which is not the only hot air he expels.

I, for one, believe this whole claim of man-made climate change is the most widely employed scam on the human race ever, so all this trouble of ours makes me particularly furious. Unfortunately, the media has jumped on the bandwagon and Americans seem to blindly listen to anything they are told by people like Katie Couric, George Clooney, or Oprah (more people who fuss about this problem after arrive in private jets or limousines). Hopefully, history will one day look back on this ploy and realize what a shame it was how so many people were duped by this idea. Until then, I guess we just have to suck it up and spend all our money on pointless automobile work that has no impact whatsoever on how hot it is tomorrow.