Sen. Bernie Sanders has a dream for America — his dream, our nightmare.

A nation of golf carts.

Last week the 74-year-old crackpot from Vermont released his 16-page manifesto to deal with climate change, an imaginary problem that he proposes to deal with by basically deindustrializing the entire nation.

If you like North Korea, you’ll love Bernie Sanders’ New America.

Here’s my favorite: “A new fuel-efficiency standard (for cars) of 65 miles per gallon by 2025.”

To get to 65 mpg, the vehicles would have to weigh about as much as that empty aluminum soda can that allegedly struck Deval Patrick on his forehead. In Bernie’s Brave New World, fatalities from bicycle accidents will skyrocket — for motorists.

But as he presides over our transition to a Third World-like federal feudalism, what sort of vehicle will President Sanders travel about in — a stretch golf cart?

How are golf carts powered? By batteries, charged with electric power. And where does electric power come from? Mostly coal and nuclear power. But wait — another Bernie solution in search of a problem is to shut down all U.S. nuclear power plants.

So say goodbye to 20 percent of the nation’s electric power generating capacity.

In Bernie’s dream world, the U.S. shifts from nukes to natural gas. Guess which produces more of those dreaded CO2 emissions that have Bernie’s supporters cowering under their quarterly trust-fund statements in their gated communities — nukes or natural gas? You only get one guess.

The U.S. is again the world’s leading producer of energy, thanks to fracking. So of course Bernie and his tenured flat-earthers demand an immediate end to all fracking.

What about the Keystone XL pipeline, you ask. Gone. But don’t worry, Bernie only wants to ban “dirty pipeline” projects. You know, as opposed to those mile-long trains of tanker cars that keep derailing and spilling millions of gallons of crude oil in sparsely-populated areas. Those railroad tanker spills — they’re “clean,” don’t you know.

Offshore oil drilling? Verboten. How about drilling on federal land (which is now one-third of the nation)? Likewise totally proscribed.

Don’t worry, though. Under Bernie the feds will “underwrite” Prius-charging power stations. These are the same people who brought you the VA, the EPA toxic-waste fiascoes, the K-1 fiancee visa program and the Secret Service. We’re from the government and we’re here to help you charge your Volt.

Bernie also wants “massive” subsidies for wind, solar, etc. Let one, two, a thousand Solyndras bloom.

Within 100 days of his inauguration, Bernie pledges to convene a summit of the “world’s best climate experts.” Leonardo DiCaprio and Katy Perry — call your offices!

Another Sanders promise — a “clean energy workforce of 10 million jobs.” None of whom will actually be producing any energy, unless hot air counts. Ten million new federal workers who don’t work. What could possibly go wrong?

Something very strange happened in Paris this week. John Kerry actually spilled the beans about the global warming scam.

“The fact is that even if every American citizen biked to work, carpooled to school, used only solar panels to power their homes, if we each planted a dozen trees, if we somehow eliminated all of our domestic greenhouse emissions, guess what — that still wouldn’t be enough to offset the carbon pollution coming from the rest of the world.”

Did some “denier” spike Liveshot’s chardonnay with sodium pentothal?

“If all the industrial nations went down to zero emissions … it wouldn’t be enough, not when more than 65 percent of the world’s carbon pollution comes from the developing world.”

Wow. Too bad Bernie Sanders didn’t get this same memo. But wait until Liveshot gets back to Foggy Bottom. His boss Barry will really let him have it. Telling the truth? As Obama always says, that’s not who we are.

See Howie today at the Market Basket in Londonderry, N.H., from 11-12:30.