The Great Petrochemical Rebellion

Timothy Birdnow

Enough is enough!

Chile is in open rebellion against our "betters" on the whole Climate Change issue.

From Tallbloke:

Climate activists and the United Nations are suffering a major black eye this week as protests and riots resulting from high energy prices have erupted in Santiago,Chile, says The Epoch Times (via The GWPF).

Chile, which is hosting a major U.N. climate conference in December, earned praise from climate activists for recently imposing a carbon dioxide tax on conventional energy sources and switching the Santiago Metro system to renewable power.

Now, the people of Chile are rising up and firing a shot across the bow of other nations considering similar energy taxes and expensive renewable energy programs.

On Friday, protesters took to the streets throughout Santiago in response to Metro fare hikes. The protests soon spread to other cities and led to rioting and at least five reported deaths.

The Chilean government and the legacy media blamed the fare hikes on rising oil prices. But that is not true.

Read the entire article!

Looks like the peasants are getting uppity!  Well, it's past time; the international elites want to reduce our lifestyles, rein in our freedom to move about, regulate and control us and, of course, tax the daylights out of us. They want us to accept our fate, and even thank them for babysitting us!  There is a paternalism in the ruling classes in the West, but people across the globe are better educated and more knowledgeable than in bygone eras and see through this. But the arrogance of the Intelligentsia knows no bounds and they still believe they can fool all of the People all of the time.

There is a theory about how certain empires maintained control in the past. Called Hydraulic Empires or Water Monopoly Empires, such places as Egypt or ancient China controlled the flow of water and if the People wanted to drink they had to obey. Control of fossil fuel is the modern equivalent, and the elites have built a hydraulic empire unlike any ever seen before based on their ability to control the amount of energy the public can obtain. New sources of energy, such as hydraulic fracturing, threaten this monopoly that they so carefully cultivated, and the whole Global Warming/Climate Change campaign is a desperate attempt to put the genie back in the bottle. "alternative" fuels do not produce enough energy to make them viable - and as a result people will be more dependent on government and what government provides than ever if we move in that direction. It is only the free flow of oil and gas that will break the monopoly of the Ruling Class, and they know it. So they promote "Green" energy and other losers, and push the idea that they have to regulate carbon dioxide emissions to "save the planet" . It's a ruse, a con, a scam. The real purpose is to place the yoke of energy poverty around the necks of the hoi poloi. See, they want to continue ruling, and they know much of what they want is anathema to what the general public wants. So they have to ensnare everyone in a trap. That trap is energy. Energy is the determinant of wealth in the modern world. They know that.

I'm glad to see the Chileans are not going to go quietly into that good night.

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