Harsher energy regulations coming in Obama's second term

reuters.com ^ | November 7, 2012

[comebacknewt]

We are so screwed.

(I think this may just be my default response to all threads from now on)

[Paladin2]

Work to supply your own energy.

(Go Galt.)

[garjog]

$15 a gallon gas anyone?

[ari-freedom]

People didn’t get to see what Obama is really like because
1) most of Obamacare wasn’t implemented
2) GOP house in 2010 softened the blow
3) Obama didn’t want to risk everything to ruin his re-election chances.

[TruthWillWin]

That (harsher energy regulations) is just the tip of the iceberg.

Leaving the planet is not an option, what country on the globe is?

[GeronL]

“Skyrocketing energy (electric) rates are necessarily part of my plan” - Barack Obama

[Alberta's Child]

Keep in mind that most "energy-saving regulations" are being pushed by industries that benefit greatly from them -- and I don't mean these silly alternative energy companies, either. For example, some of the strongest supporters of the Obama administration's stricter diesel emission standards were truck manufacturers. The reason for this should be obvious: the stricter standards force trucking companies to buy new trucks with new engines within a certain period of time. Basically, the truck manufacturing industry uses the new emission standards to artificially stimulate demand that wouldn't otherwise exist.

I'm sure you'll find that the same is true for these stupid regulations that apply to industrial boilers. This is nothing more than state-sponsored corporate fascism.

[GeronL]

WASS

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I am wondering what will happen to all my friends when the coal fired power plants close because of Obama. I retired from a coal fired power plant 4 years ago last month and could not believe what happened in 2008. Now a repeat on 2012.

[stanne]

Harsher freakin energy relations?!

Pshaw

Sharia law will be in effect as soon as possible.

F we’ll be lucky to be allowed to celebrate Christmas one last time this year.

[vpintheak]

I will not be able to live in Alaska much longer.

[stanne]

Oh, geeze, I know energy relations are energy regulations

[cydcharisse]

We are headed for Canadian-European gas prices. $6-$7 gas here we come.

[lu shissler]

This is the death knoll for the truckers.

[lu shissler]

Obama said $10-12/gal and more until he got people out of cars!

[sand88]

Basically, the truck manufacturing industry uses the new emission standards to artificially stimulate demand that wouldn't otherwise exist.

. This is nothing more than state-sponsored corporate fascism.

Exactly right, good points. Crony capitalism is part of the downfall of America. I can't envision a way back to limited government.

[I still care]

They are going to have a special good time in the coal areas, like WV and PA.

WV, my heart goes out to you. The idiotic electorate has done you dirty, by voting in your enemy.

PA, I doubt you are smart enough even to understand what you’ve done to yourselves.

[Secret Agent Man]

For some things yes, but you can’t make your own gasoline.

[Secret Agent Man]

Take it back. Why let them have my country? I have nowhere else to go. I don’t want to go anywhere else. The line is drawn where I stand.