Guest Commentary: Dumping Paris Accord not a big deal

Rebuttal to Susan Conrad Commentary: “Protect planet for the future,: June 8.

I love the planet, I protect this planet. My wife and I paid extra for a hybrid car. My ice plant is dead because we quit watering it to save California water. I have always tried to take home more trash than I brought, leaving the places I visit a little better off than when I got there. AND, we have had solar on our house for over 20 years, proving that conservatives are modern forward thinking people, too, and liberals are not the only ones that care for the Earth and our environment.

I get a chuckle out of the left’s dire predictions when it comes to Trump pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord. To listen to them, all the planet’s protecting progress is going to stop, the seas are going to rise, and tomorrow we will wake up and be choking down 1970s polluted air. This hype is ridiculous and it makes it hard for me to take the left serious.

From my understanding the Accord forced the U.S. to improve our standards, at a HUGE cost to the people of the United States, via increased energy costs, across the board. The Accord gave billions of American dollars to foreign entities to entice them to do the same, but there are little to no guarantees that those countries would do what they promised to do.

Our government is trillions of dollars in debt, and the American people are hurting, especially the middle class. This appears to be nothing more than a huge transfer of wealth that our middle class will ultimately fund. According to Trump, it is a bad deal and Americans would suffer. I agree with Trump; he put Americans first. We made all the huge gains with respect to taking care of the planet without the Paris Climate Accord and the progress will go forward without the agreement.

Susan’s insinuations that those who support Trump’s position to pull out of the Paris Accord are responsible for the loss of jobs in the U.S. are wrong. The Paris Accord has nothing to do with the loss of these jobs. These jobs will go to the cities/states that have the best business environment for the companies’ success. Here in California, Democrats control the regulations and tax rates that have the greatest affect on the overall business environment— not Duncan Hunter or Joel Anderson, or any of the other conservatives who support Trump’s decision to put Americans first.

Indeed these fine representatives and patriots FIGHT the very Big Government Democrat-imposed regulations and taxes that are forcing the jobs and middle class out of CA. We could use more Duncan Hunters and Joel Andersons in CA.

Steve Yanke is a proud conservative, proud protector of our planet and proud Ramona resident.