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Carol Campodonica: Laying blame for high electricity, food prices

Who causes entanglements to keep their job? Environmentalists became stronger when they realize they never produced a product to sell. They constantly charged fees or taxes on manufacturing businesses, farms and electrical companies in order to keep their job and paycheck.

Environmentalists wish to tear down dams that provide water for farms and electrical energy to businesses and homes. In addition, they won’t allow new dams. Instead, they have helped create higher utility bills.

Environmentalists became overzealous and businesses folded and jobs were lost, which created the foreclosures of many family homes through the years.

Overzealous environmentalists refuse to allow the clearing of thick brush in our forests or the cutting of trees. It depletes the water we have underground because water stays on the surface.

Have you noticed the rise in food prices each week? You can count on the environmentalist to have a hand in it because farmers are having to dig wells that cost $100,000 or more. Environmentalists refuse to follow the Constitution. In fact, they override the Constitution, taking away our liberty by laws eroding American businesses.

Carol Campodonica, Merced

This story was originally published March 8, 2016 at 10:31 AM with the headline "Carol Campodonica: Laying blame for high electricity, food prices."

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