The Clean Power Plan doesn’t accomplish much of anything for climate and emissions, but it does expose environmentalist groups’ very foolish utopian mindset.

There is an old adage that says “keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” It’s sound advice in many ways. You need to know what your competition is doing and understand their mindset to appreciate how they come to choose certain actions and what they’re likely to do next.

When it comes to the biggest opponents of natural gas, pseudo-environmentalist groups, I do not consider them an enemy per se, but I have been following (and trolling) several of their social media accounts to better understand them and their utopian idealism. “Utopia,” of course, was an imaginary place, likely invented by the author of the book to illustrate the foolishness of such schemes. Harry ‘Haywire’ McClintock’s “Big Rock Candy Mountain” where everything is just perfect is the sort of world to which so many of these folks seem to aspire.

Truly understanding these pseudo-environmentalists and deciphering what they are after is tough. One moment they are attacking the EPA. Next, they are attacking EPA budget cuts. Many simply adopt a feel-good posture of “giving everybody a pony” in the model of Bernie Sanders’ politics campaign. They seek validation for what are little more than emotional knee-jerk reactions to real problem and not what is actually working.

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