Pols distract us with 'climate crisis'

The title says it all when listening to politicians and their views.

During this election cycle, I thought there would be some one or group that would actually do something to change the economic problems facing Middle Americans. As usual, I was wrong.

Here is the problem. Politicians can't seem to solve anything and because they can't, they have turned our attention to "climate crisis."

They are talking about actions that will take decades to come to fruition and be affordable.

Spending billions to subsidize exotic energy forms is a waste of money needed elsewhere and now. Solving global warming is as fruitful as preventing earthquakes.

Eleven-thousand-five-hundred years ago, the earth's temperature rose 10 degrees and killed off the woolly mammoths. This only demonstrates that a climate crisis is a cyclical event.

Influential people twist statistical data to serve their own purposes.

The loss of manufacturing jobs has been said to be 11 percent. However, production of products has increased by nearly 200 percent.

The job losses are not outsourced, as stated by many. What happened is the industry has become more efficient in making these products.

Free trade policies have been blocked, which stifles the sale of "Made in America" products to other countries.

E-85 uses more energy to produce than gasoline, plus its mpg is lower which means more ethanol is needed. Corn prices for human and livestock consumption have risen. The supply and demand cycle forces the price to go even higher.

Politicians were elected to solve problems and make difficult decisions. They have apparently decided not to tackle government waste, earmarks or unnecessary services and departments which they can control.

A fictitious weather crisis seems to be more important than the health and welfare of the people politicians serve.

Wayne Oras Sr.

Schaumburg