Posted on 02/13/2026 9:28:08 AM PST by DFG
The good news is that the Trump administration has announced its repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s “endangerment finding.” As Matthew Hennessey puts it in the Wall Street Journal’s Free Expression newsletter this morning, the finding is the “2009 determination that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health. It was the legal basis for most federal climate regulation, allowing Washington technocrats to treat carbon dioxide, methane and four other gases as pollutants.” The White House trumpeted the repeal as “the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history.”
Let us cheer while we can. Woo hoo! It represents a victory over the administrative state.
The New York Times is not so inclined. Below is a screenshot of the headline over Lisa Friedman’s mournful story. It’s not quite up there with World Ends — Women, Minorities Hardest Hit!, but that’s what they’re thinking.
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Now I want the ethanol out of gasoline.
GET RID OF THE R22 EXTORTION PRICING.
Freon r22 is ten times the price it was 15 years ago.
Can you spell ARTIFICIAL COSTING.
And it's because of TOO MANY HUMANS! We're slowing down the Earth!
The government needs to do something about this RIGHT AWAY!!
OR ELSE WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE !!!
We need more regulations on PEOPLE!! Get the Earth back up to speed NOW!!
(Do I need a /sarc tag?)
i read in september or october earth gravity is gonna dissapear for 7 seconds. imagine that?
Is it thee rapture?
Now I want the ethanol out of gasoline.
= = =
And what do you plan to do with that ethanol?
California, environmental group plan to sue Trump administration over emissions repeal
Buy cheaper drinks in Vegas.
Now you hit paydirt. Ethanol makes cars less efficient measured by MPG. We are literally taking food out of the mouths of animals, raising the cost to feed them, raising the price at the store. It takes 1.4 gals of legacy fuel, to produce a gallon of ethanol. That price of corn for animals is artificially higher, and productive farmland that could raise a better crop is used for corn, which is overproduced, and a very poor food for humans.
It is a win win for farmers in Iowa though, they make a lot of money to kick back to the politicians.
There. Fixed it.
What, you can’t flood Washington, DC by sticking your foot in the Potomac?
Is that nonsense going to be applied to R410 too?
The best news I heard for long time!
Now repeal Biden’s Executive Order 14008, which designated “climate change” as a national security concern. This is what prevents FOIA’s on the geo-engineering we see in our skies nearly every day, all of which is classified under 14008.
I've used ethanol free gas in my 2015 F150 SuperCrew since it was purchased. I did the same for my 1999 F150 SuperCab after the fuel pump was destroyed by icing up in -15F weather. Ethanol attracts water. Ice expands and destroys things. All of my motorcycles run ethanol free. It costs a little more, but the better performance and freedom from damage from not only ice but hotter burning is worth the difference.
I have an app called PureGas that maps the availability of ethanol free gas. Lots of options for Idaho and Utah. Less available in Nevada. Not an option in California.
Surprisingly, PureGas is readily available across Iowa at Caseys stations.
Sell it (the corn,etal) to the Chinese.
As part of my $50,000 house advocacy, I want the creation of eave placement AC units instead of split systems which need professional installation.
These units would have one-piece coils instead of the soldered segments in my R22 evaporator.
The coils would both be placed above and outside the wall so they could be washed off safely.
The fans and the insulated housing would be permanent, with only the need to replace the coils and condenser with another factory-made unit.
A house would need about four eave units at about $250/each initially.
In the late 1960’s while I was finishing grad school, we were looking for jobs, with most of us accepting university teaching positions. One, however, went with a newly-formed agency in DC that had fewer than two dozen employees. About four months later he wrote to tell us that his director came out one morning and told everyone not to process anything in the IN box until further notice. (Yes, they really did have an IN/OUT box.) About ten days later there was a “surprise” visit from the General Accounting Office about the director’s request for more employees. He pointed to the IN boxes stating they were swamped! He got his request. The agency: the EPA, which now has over 16,000+ employees looking for ways to create more regulations which are little more than a full employment act for them.
Your position on the social ladder in DC doesn’t depend on performance. It depends on the number of people you control. And since there is no reward for being productive, there’s no incentive to be efficient. I would love to see Trump come out with following EO:
“As of tomorrow, every agency will have its budget cut by 10%, with those funds applied immediately to the national debt. I expect the agencies to perform at the same, or better, level of service. If you cannot do this, you will be replaced by someone who can. Have a nice day.”
Yeah, I know it can’t happen, but wouldn’t it be nice...
quick
everybody run in place
in the same direction
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