Back to the O'l Plantatlon

That did not, of course, make them racists: They were prefectly willing to step on the faces of the less prosperous without regard to race, color or creed. Nevertheless, it is a fact that a disproportionate number of faces under their liberal feet were black.

This newsletter and a number of other writers have objected to the environmentalists' ethic of freezing the world in the state that includes them as the tonesetting class; but it was particularly gratifying to hear our concerns about energy clearly expressed in the NAACP's report of the Colored People's National Energy Conference that is, by the foremost victims of elitist environmentalism in general, and the Carter anti energy policy in particular.

"There appears to be a myriad of governmental restraints on the production and use of coal and nuclear power... Nuclear power, including the breeder, must be vigorously pursued because it will be an essential part of the total fuel mix necessary to sustain an expanding economy. . .

"We cannot accept the notion that our people are best served by a policy based on the inevitability of energy shortage and the need for government to allocate an ever-diminishing supply among competing interests. . .

"By not increasing the financial incentives for additional exploration and by reducing companies' financial strength, the [Carter] plan fails to come to grips with the problem of increasing domestic crude oil production. . .

" For the great majority of people the NAACP represents, the cost of energy today is sufficiently high to discourage unnecessary use... If energy prices are to be raised artificially through taxes, a major portion of the new revenues should be used to develop new energy supply. . . "

All of which must be highly awkward for the sensitive and societally relevant, though they have successfully kept this embarrassment out of most of the press (the Wall Street Journal tactlessly printed an extract on Jan. 12).

A decade and a half ago, they brawled with the Alabama police pretending to be opposed to racism; today they brawl with the New Hampshire police pretending to protect the environment. Whether they are less racist than the old style redneck is debatable; but certainly they are a lot more hypocritical.

As for the NAACP, they are a bunch of ingrates, without respect for the small and beautiful, the primitive and regressionist, that their betters have thought up for them.

And Massa Lovins had been working so hard to enable them to go back to the ol' plantation. . .