One of the first groups of corporations which worked to get on the assumed “global warming” gravy train of government regulation was the US Climate Action Partnership ("USCAP").

In the past week, three of its founding members, Conoco, BP, and Caterpillar Corporation have announced their withdrawal from the group.

It’s no surprise given the utter collapse of the “climate change” movement with each passing day bringing more news of cheating, lies, and even violations of law by the alarmists.

From scientists chasing government grants to former politicians chasing fame and fortune (and Nobel prizes) to corporations following the mantra “if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu", the “global warming” movement has been a massive hoax from day one.

If the damage of the hoax were confined to the reputation of a few scientists or Algore, it wouldn’t be particularly important.  However, the left has used the issue to try to wrest control of the industrialized worlds’ economies away from mostly-free markets and into the hands of government.

Proposed “cap and trade” legislation, probably now dead due to Climategate, Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts, and persistent cold and show in DC, was an attempt to tax everything that requires energy to produce or transport, i.e. every physical product in America. It was also a plan to redirect taxpayer money to notoriously inefficient “green energy” even though at least one major study shows that each government-supported “green” job actually eliminates more than 2 private sector jobs.

Now the USCAP rats are leaving their sinking ship.  Whereas they hoped to use government and the media to force regulations which would benefit them at the expense of taxpayers’ money and liberty, they now must just hope that people don’t remember the pro-government, pro-junk science, and anti-consumer positions they took.  Capitalist companies seeking profit is all well and good, but trying to use government to choose winners (themselves) and losers (everybody else) is unacceptable and un-American.