Posted on 03/29/2012 4:36:34 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Obama Environmental Protection Agency just condemned to death an entire U.S. industry - a legal and scientific horror story that congressional Republicans failed miserably to prevent.
The EPA’s newly proposed greenhouse gas emission standards for coal-fired power plants will be finalized by the Obama administration, win or lose, after the November election.
Though the proposed standards leave alone existing coal-fired power plants, they effectively prohibit the construction of new plants by establishing an impossible-to-meet emissions standard.
But don’t get the idea that the EPA threw the coal industry a bone by omitting existing coal-fired plants, as the agency has already issued two regulations - the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule and the Mercury Air Toxics Standard - that will prematurely retire about 20 percent of existing coal-fired plants over the next few years.
The supposed scientific grounds for the new EPA greenhouse gas emissions is global warming. But even if you believe that man-made emissions are changing climate for the worse, there are two realities that expose the EPA’s moves as purely political.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
If this is like previous EPA reductions in emmissions, even existing plants aren’t safe. If you spend more than a certain percentage of the plant’s value in one year (such as getting a new turbine and generator in the same year), then the plant is no longer an “existing” plant. It is now a new plant subject to current regulations. This actually hampers a power company’s efforts to modernize and upgrade their plants.
If it can be done, it can be undone.
The liberals turned off the water to California's Inland Empire causing a quarter of a million people to become unemployed and seriously reducing the food supply of the nation.
And, now, coal miners will lose their jobs, power plants will be shut down, and electricity bills will increase. But, the writer's correct. The Republican response has been, um, muted.
With all these stories about the Obama kids going crazy coast-to-coast, border-to-border I wish newsmen would be careful how the phrase things in the news.
Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.
Nothing new here. When will you understand that politicians are both bribeable and willing to take stands that seems politically correct at the moment. They are POLITICIANS for goodness sakes - both Dems and Reps. Yes, that means that both parties are CREEPS! (can’t use proper language here).
Very depressing :(
Personally I think everyone who works for EPA should have their electric utilities disconnected to their homes, their likely taxpayer owned vehicles taken away, and the power disconnected too their offices as well. Let those two faced hypocrites be forced to live the lifestyle they are forcing upon us unconstitutionally.
Good luck with that .... saw a story recently where the Obamanites are spending taxpayer money for surveys ... paying people money to fill them out regarding 4 private hydroelectric dam facilities .... people not affected, who know nothing about the dams. In other words, trying to gin up complaints where there are none so they can move in and close them down, remove the dams .... whatever they're going to do. I'm sure if you dig deep enough in the Obama administration sludge, you'll find a dam-hating enviro-whacko worried about some fish or water bug or something.
The liberals killed the Pacific Northwest logging industry and the commercial fishing industry putting tens of thousands out of work, promising jobs that did not exist, turning dozens of counties into wards of the state. It was just accepted. As was the huge loss to the US Balance of Trade - the first steps in turning the US into a net importer of food and toward becoming a debtor nation.
Gotta love them Libs: Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton.
LMAO, glad I didn’t buy an electric car!
Americans better start getting used to sitting in the dark with no boob tube and no way to charge their cell phone battery. We’re all cave dwellers now. How ‘bout that “progressivism”?
Ain't going to happen: the enviro-Nazis have convinced the sheeple that salmon are more important than power or crops. The dam below is one of many being destroyed. The Klamath River dams are threatened, also.
Condit Dam breached: A slow-motion video offers a different view
,,,,,, the union coal miners love 0bama just one more reason for them to vote for him again .
The GOP is nothing more than the “relief” party for the American NWO types. They are to provide an outlet for those of us who won’t willingly surrender our souls to the leaders and community organizers.
“I will bankrupt the coal companies” - the guy does keep his promises.....
Many people don't know that the first test of the Endangered Species Act was used to try and stop a runaway federal agency called TVA. TVA wanted to build an extension of sorts Ft Loudon Lake called Tellico Lake and they connected via a canal. Tellico Dam does not generate power it has no generators. It simply increased the pool capacity of Ft Loundon Lake. TVA by it's own admission building Tellico Lake was a monetary and energy looser that would not pay for itself.
The opposition too the lake as such wasn't environmentalist but local land owners of prime farm land and sportsman. There was several dams upstream but the river was good Trout fishing water.
A biologist found what they thought at the time was a fish {Snail Darter} common only too that river and that was the how those opposed chose to try and bring an end too TVA's roughshod you'll do as we say or else tactics.
After several court battles the project finally died out so everyone thought. But Sen Howard Baker and Rep John Duncan Sr ran a midnight bill through to fund completion.
What was done after that should anger anyone who believes in property rights. Landowners who had even a small portion of their property touching the TVA high water boundary were forced to sell the entire parcel. Meaning if you had 500 acres and one tenth an acre was lake front TVA got the 500 as well. TVA then sold it to developers for a song. The original landowners had their land sold for many times over what TVA paid and what developers had paid TVA.
The GOP is MIA on almost everything.
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