Dumbest opinion piece I've seen in a while

There’s too much information available, tax the internet.

Look, buddy, voters have always been ill-informed and always will be. They just don’t care, they’re busy living their lives. Also, the fact that you’re a lawyer working for a nonprofit environmental group causes me to doubt that ill-informed voters is really your issue. You just don’t want us using precious electricity, do you?

Rather than call for government regulation of technology itself, perhaps the best way to limit the avalanche is to make the technologies that overproduce information more expensive and less widespread. It could be done via a progressive energy tax designed to keep energy prices at a consistently high level (while providing assistance to lower- and middle-income Americans).

Provide assistance to lower- and middle-income Americans and you end up back where you started, no? Those are the rabble-rousers that are out there voicing their opinions all over the place that you’re worried is blocking out the important information. Except with this plan we have an added layer of government. That’ll help. The government always helps.

It’s possible that over time, an energy tax, by making some computers, Web sites, blogs and perhaps cable TV channels too costly to maintain, could reduce the supply of information. If Americans are finally giving up SUVs because of high oil prices, might we not eventually do the same with some information technologies that only seem to fragment our society, not unite it? A reduced supply of information technology might at least gradually cause us to gravitate toward community-centered media such as local newspapers instead of the hyper-individualistic outlets we have now.

Yes, information flow should be restricted to only those who can afford it. Let the rich decide what we need to know. That will make the world a better place.

Idiot.