There is a bill going through the legislature in Oregon that would raise the cost of fuel putting some truckers out of business.
Cap and Trade is designed to limit the amount of emissions to reduce air pollution.
There would be expensive upgrades to trucks and machinery that would bankrupt many small companies if this legislation were allowed to pass.
The truckers would be hit the hardest because they would have to modify their trucks or buy new ones.
Those trucks cost between $80,000 to $180,000 to replace.
Filling up a big rig runs about $1450 for one fill up.
Most big rigs get between 4 and 7.5 miles per gallon.
The last thing we need to do is place more burdens on our truckers. They are the ones who haul all our goods to the stores where we shop. When their cost goes up they have to charge more and the stores have to pass it on to us.
If anyone thinks we are not affected by the cost of trucking, think again.
The liberals rarely think beyond the end of their noses. They think up all kinds of happy thoughts about restricting our use of the environment as though we are nothing more than renters of the earth and our land lord is the earth itself. They have designated themselves as the caretakers and rule makers for the earth.
Since the liberals are basing their thoughts on faulty science they often make irrational decisions that ruin rather than preserve.
The earth was made for man by God, we were not made for the earth to govern us. The environmental movement has done some good but often they go off the rails into irrational thinking because of their worship of the earth.
I am all for being good stewards of the resources of the earth, but there is a line we cannot cross that makes the earth more important than the people who live on it.
The Bible is clear the earth is wearing out and groaning but not because of the way man is dealing with the environment. The earth groans from the weight of sin upon it.
Isaiah 24:20
20 The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard
And it totters like a shack,
For its transgression is heavy upon it,
And it will fall, never to rise again.
Ezra 9:7
7 “Since the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt, and on account of our iniquities we, our kings and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity and to plunder and to open shame, as it is this day."
Romans 8:22-23 "22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time. 23 Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.…"
Ungodly law makers will not understand that it is not the environment that is in danger, but those who perceive wrongly the problem. That problem being sin in the hearts of men who deny God while worshiping His creation instead of Him.
Romans 1:25 " 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen. "
