Posted on 01/23/2017 7:17:46 AM PST by central_va
Step aside, elected Members of Congress. If you can’t pass cap and trade legislation, The Environmental Protection Agency will move in with massively complex and costly regulations that would micromanage just about every aspect of the economy. They announced today that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases (GHGs) threaten public health and the environment.
Since 85 percent of the U.S. economy runs on fossil fuels that emit carbon dioxide, imposing a cost on CO2 is equivalent to placing an economy-wide tax on energy use. The kind of industrial-strength EPA red tape that the agency could enforce in the name of global warming would result in millions of dollars in compliance costs. These are unnecessary costs that businesses will inevitably pass on to the American consumer, slow economic growth and kill jobs. Although the crafted rules say only facilities that emit 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year or more will be affected, businesses fear the exemption may not hold up in court and could now be imposed on many smaller commercial buildings, farms, restaurants, churches and small businesses.
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Yes… The shadow government moves in to accomplish what the real government cannot bring about, the subjugation of the American people under the watchful eye of Big Brother.
The United Nations is not a peace organization and the EPA is not an environmental one…
Everyone STOP EXHALING RIGHT NOW! You are expelling CO2 and killing the polar bears! We’re all gonna die!
Good point. Hopefully the landing team there is right on it.
This provable lie must be scientifically denounced.
CO2 is clearly a building block of life and NOT a pollutant.
Got it.
The ‘executive’ that signed off on this edict should be hunted down and quartered.
The EPA needs to be salted down, fed feet first through a plastic shredder, and scattered to the four winds.
Time to fire everyone associated with making this declaration.
CO2 is NOT a toxic gas any more than O2 is a toxic gas. Both are necessary for life on this planet.
Co2 is the life blood for vegetation of all kinds, whereas O2 is needed for animated life.
Since this is from the EPA, I think Trump’s incoming EPA chief could rewrite the piece so that it is sensible.
Asshat...
Breathe in.............
The best use of CO2 (aside from keeping our vegetation alive) is to bottle some up and place ALL EPA science pretenders in a room with it.
That’s as in “only” the CO2.
We can televise the results.
It’ll be top rated.
Dangerous?
How about “Criteria Pollutant” as define by the US Congress?
No law, no regulation!
(It deserved repeating)
Whose the asshat?
Why worry about the polar bears? They also exhale CO2. Should we want them to increase?/s
ATTENTION TRUMP: CLEANUP IN AISLE E
imagine the world without a single tree, and what are we supposed to eat?
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