Interesting line

There's an interesting line in this Washington Post article about how conservative lobby groups and think tanks are opposing the modest (read: weak) climate change proposals offered up by the House of Representatives GOP wing.


The Energy 202: Conservative groups at odds with new House GOP climate change proposals

Here's the line:

"The fact is that we have far too many trees in our national forests," said [Competitive Enterprise Institute exec Myron*} Ebell.

I kinda thought that the point of a having a forest was to have trees in it??

* Synonymous with moron, in this case.