Posted on 12/07/2010 2:54:20 PM PST by Starman417
Gas prices are approaching $3 per gallon and may go considerably higher. $100 a barrel oil is seen as likely. Obama has choked off some oil production in the Gulf and made us more dependent on foreign oil. The economy is in tatters. Unemployment is at 9.8%. Barack Obama has brought this country to its knees.Now comes the knockout punch.
On April 19 EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson ruled that carbon dioxide, a gas vital to the growth of green plants, is a pollutant. The ruling gave the White House an almost unlimited control of the country and its energy.
Lisa Jackson, the EPA administrator, signed a so-called endangerment finding, stating that carbon dioxide and five other products of fossil fuel combustion are harmful to both the environment and to human health. As a result, the EPA could begin regulating automotive CO2 emissions as soon as June. The ruling also gives the EPA broad power to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from industry and electric power utilities for the first time.
This ruling is estimated to cost at least $3 billion:
The Environmental Protection Agency said the new rule represented its most consequential effort yet to tackle pollution that contributes to smog and soot that hangs over more than half the country. The rule would cost nearly $3 billion a year, costs that are likely to be passed along to consumers.
"Likely to be passed along to consumers...."
Likely? Ya think? Those WaPo guys really deserve all those Pewlitzers. They're geniuses.
The $3 billion cost is most likely a gross underestimate. When did the government ever get a fiscal projection right?
That cost is only the beginning.
But industry groups said it will boost power prices and force many older coal-fired power plants to be closed. Jeff Holmstead, a former EPA official who authored the original interstate rule, said it was not clear whether utilities will be able to meet the new standards while still providing affordable and reliable electric power.
The nation's power need does not diminish- it grows each year. And it is going to hit the US population hard.
The Affordable Power Alliance recently released a study showing the cost impact of the EPA regulations on minority families, who live in these coal-reliant areas of the country. The APA found that, by 2025, the EPA regulations will increase the poverty rate by 20 percent for African-American families and 22 percent for Hispanic families, while decreasing median minority household incomes by as much as $660 per year and leading to hundreds of thousands of jobs lost.
The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works released a report outlining the impact of the new regulations:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
Because contrary to their lies, it is the Obama leftists who have perverted science to their political agenda.
Obamao resents the fact that Americans have used cheap energy to prosper, and he is determined to make it up to the rest of the world. Never mind that many third world countries have cheap energy, and can’t use it to prosper.
How long until Obama’s Czar has gasoline costs
directly depend on “diversity” and union card?
Combine all of that with Bernanke ‘printing’ money like there’s no tomorrow, driving the dollar through the basement floor. That alone is enough to send oil and other commodities higher, which makes EVERYTHING cost more(except dollars of course).
This is fascism. Pure and simple.
I can see it now...Obama gets less and less of what he wants over the next two years and as a result he becomes more and more deranged...then one day, he goes postal.
Remember what happened on November 2, 2010?
Remember January 3rd approaches.
Can WE force the 112th Congress to defund the EPA?
The “Won” and his terminal arrogance for the past 2 years have accumulated a huge base of opposition to his “agenda”. We shall see if he understands “Who” “Won” in the Midterm Elections.
FUBO! FUEPA!
Wasn't that the title to a 70's porno movie?
Here in Texas, we are already defying the EPA. Goodhair needed a way to not get tossed out of office.
Will be interesting to watch the rest of the nation.
If we reach the point of gas lines/rationing this country will erupt into chaos... next to Obambi taking NFL/NBA/WWF/NASCAR off the TV this will send folks over the edge.
The first snuff porn????
All I know it was from a Seinfeld show.
Maybe the feral gov’t can print ration cards on those screwed up $100 bills!
You wrote: “This is fascism. Pure and simple.”
Any law (and a “regulation” is a law) that is not explicitly passed by both houses of Congress is not constitutional.
So, yes it is fascism.
Just another reason that Gov. Palin is our best candidate for 2012.
When masses of people go over the edge and chaos reigns, martial law will be declared and they will send in policemen, deputies, marshalls, constables, etc. give them federal status and salaries, and confiscate weapons/kill protestors. Seems like a better way would be for special forces to remove the dragon’s head and that of those around him, since courts, Congress and SCOTUS won’t.
Even if it is passed by Congress, it's still Fascism.
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