Maybe our Dear Leader wants this country to look like the recently deceased Dear Leader's country does at night.
Posted on 12/21/2011 2:04:06 PM PST by traderrob6
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Wednesday unveiled rules for coal-fired power plants that mean costly investments passed on to consumers, but also health benefits.
Hundreds of older plants — which together make up the largest remaining source of unchecked toxic air pollution in the United States — will have to cut emissions or shut down.
"By cutting emissions that are linked to developmental disorders and respiratory illnesses like asthma, these standards represent a major victory for clean air and public health," Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said in a statement.
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Maybe our Dear Leader wants this country to look like the recently deceased Dear Leader's country does at night.
Who is Lisa Jackson? I don’t recall voting for her.
Why does this agency have unelected people - who have the capability of making determinations, that the people have no choice of either accepting, or rejecting?
Exactly, “Who” does this person answer too?
Over 10% of the coal used to generate electrical power in the US is used in Texas, over 100 million tons per year.
Next in line is Indiana, Illinois and Ohio, each using a little more than half the amount used in Texas.
Following them is Pennsylvania and Montana, each using a bit less than half of the amount used in Texas.
http://www.eia.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/consumption_state.xls
A-hole communist apparatchiks versus the producers. Versus the rest of us, the private sector. Our air is very clean today.
Our air is dirty= the big lie a la Goebbels
Are you confident you will get seven years out of the batteries and solar panels? How much degrading in performance of each happens by that time?
http://www.crownbattery.com/PDF/Safety.First._Deep%20Cycle%20Batteries.pdf
"What I’ve said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else’s out there.
I was the first to call for a 100% auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted down caps that are being placed, imposed every year.
So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.
That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches.
The only thing I’ve said with respect to coal, I haven’t been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as a ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it.
So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.... It’s just that it will bankrupt them."
No batteries, this is on grid. In the good months you sell the excess back to the power company and in the cold months you use that credit. It works out well from what I’m told.
energy prices go up, more people will need assistance, government grows.
Evidence?
And not from an EPA/enviro wacko, either.
and America takes another one in the........
When we run out of power and have blackouts in the summer, old people will die due to lack of a/c. Those will be real actually deaths as opposed to the health problems that will supposedly be cleared up by this regulation. 30,000 mostly elderly died in Europe when they had a heat wave and no a/c.
When someone has asbestosis, we know who they are, by name. I want the names of all the people this regulation is claiming to save. Specific individuals.
Yup. I remember that quote.
I agree, but it would have to be a blatant violation or nothing would ever get done.
MSNBC defending the indefensible.
Thousands of jobs will be lost, and our idiot bamaboy claims he is awake night and day trying to save jobs.
Save jobs my ass, he is destroying a hundred jobs for every one he claims to be saving.
Give me a friggin break.
While the reason to shut down these plants is to reduce mercury emissions, our homes will be filled with mercury filled CFL bulbs that pose a far greater threat to us as individuals and will clog hazardous waste sites.
I've wondered the same thing.
‘linked to’ a code word for ‘scientism’.
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