Thumbs Up To President Obama

Hail to The Chief

Mammoth automobiles guzzling gas like nobody’s business rule the roost on American expressways. Shortsighted politicians who can’t see beyond their noses help the process along all the way.
Now, all that is going to change with the advent of the brand new President Obama. As soon as he appeared on the automobile horizon he looked around and said ‘enough is enough’.
Ideally, politicians, especially those in power, should be the watchdogs of all that is good in society. But by and large they close to their eyes to unimportant things like carbon emissions and global warming, in the name of progress and development. Some even protect the interests of the auto makers who are intent only on profits and let the environment with everything in it go to hell. Some even line their cozy pockets with the loot got from the avaricious industrialists. These politicians do not have the guts to face the automakers and order them to make their products fuel efficient or else.
Now a politician of a different ilk has made the scene, a person who is gritty enough to tell the automakers the buck stops here. Now those fellows in Detroit crowding the gates of the White House with their begging bowls have to comply with the new order of things whether they like it or not.
This unique president informs us now that the changes that he has prescribed will bring about a sea change in climatic conditions. And when his edicts come into force, it is like shutting down of 194 coal burning plants or taking away 58 million autos off the roads for a year.
At long last, the USA, the worst polluter of this God’s green globe is trying hard to reverse the process it has started in the first place, thereby creating a precedent for the evil offenders like China and India with their coal-fired, black-smoke-belching plants that advance commerce only to harm the human beings. Let us hope that these offending countries will realize their mistake and close down such plants that benefit none.
The environmentalists can make a little sigh of relief for the dark clouds give way and a small silver lining is visible in the near horizon.
Long live President Obama who has the courage of his convictions, something a politician sorely lacks.