Posted on 10/29/2010 8:33:36 PM PDT by rickb308
Texas has refused to meet new federal greenhouse gas emission rules that go into effect in January, the latest anti-Washington move in an ongoing battle that could halt new construction at the nation's largest refineries and other industry in Texas.
The refusal to join 49 other states in agreeing to the new rules is the latest salvo from Texas in its fight with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which Gov. Rick Perry has used on the campaign trail as an example of meddling by the federal government.
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Good for them!!
Let’s just cut off the natural gas and oil pipelines that head up North from Texas this winter. The U.S. needs Texas more than Texas needs the U.S.
I LOVE THIS. It’s a statement worth making, but imagine that Rick Perry is also hoping to be sued, so he too can compete with Braveheart Brewer, (Jan) in Nevada.
Go TXRangers!
Tea for Texas. Thanks rickb308.
God Blessed Texas and may the Good Lord continue to bless our beloved Lone Star State. I'm so glad I moved here from the rustbelt several decades ago and bravery such as this confirms the correctness of my move to Texas!
The following statement was true then and is true again now:
“UNANIMOUS
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,
BY THE
DELEGATES OF THE PEOPLE OF TEXAS,
IN GENERAL CONVENTION,
AT THE TOWN OF WASHINGTON,
ON THE SECOND DAY OF MARCH, 1836
When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted; and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression; when the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence, and the whole nature of their government has been forcibly changed without their consent, from a restricted federative republic, composed of sovereign states, to a consolidated central military despotism, in which every interest is disregarded but that of the army and the priesthood – both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, and the ever-ready minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants; When long after the spirit of the Constitution has departed, moderation is at length, so far lost, by those in power that even the semblance of freedom is removed, and the forms, themselves, of the constitution discontinued; and so far from their petitions and remonstrances being regarded, the agents who bear them are thrown into dungeons; and mercenary armies sent forth to force a new government upon them at the point of the bayonet. When in consequence of such acts of malfeasance and abdication, on the part of the government, anarchy prevails, and civil society is dissolved into its original elements: In such a crisis, the first law of nature, the right of self-preservation – the inherent and inalienable right of the people to appeal to first principles and take their political affairs into their own hands in extreme cases – enjoins it as a right towards themselves and a sacred obligation to their posterity, to abolish such government and create another in its stead, calculated to rescue them from impending dangers, and to secure their future welfare and happiness.”
I hear y’all.....I moved here 3 years ago and love this state......not a Cowboy fan but I adopted the Rangers as home to favorite when I moved here and they are not disappointing me......
“”Texas has refused to meet new federal greenhouse gas emission rules that go into effect in January...***
No, no, those are just greenburrito gases.
How can the construction be stopped if the state is ignoring the rules?
Nice....
Companies that go ahead with construction without permits that comply with the federal Clean Air Act could face lawsuits and fines of up to $25,000 per day, Becker said.
I’m betting the EPA will get the IRS to jack up the company.
Freeze a Yankee
1979
Music by Bob Arnold
Lyrics by Bob Arnold & Bill Sturgeon
CHORUS
Freeze a Yankee, drive seventy-five and freeze ‘em alive
Freeze a Yankee, let your thermostat rise and give ‘em a surprise
Governor Briscoe promised us that if any [darn] Yankee [raised] a fuss
We’d turn off the gas, cut off the oil and let ‘em all freeze and boil
VERSE 1
Now President Carter was a good ol’ boy, a Southerner through and through
But when he asked all Americans to sacrifice, he really meant you-know-who
He wants all our oil and our nuclear fuels
Now what does he take us for, silly fools?
The president wants us to pass our gas, now ain’t that a kick in the . . .
CHORUS
VERSE 2
They don’t want an oil rig around their seashore, Lord its a terrible sight
And don’t you try to drill in their dirty, old water, if you do you’re in for a fight
Senator Kennedy told me himself
That he wouldn’t let us drill on the Continental Shelf
So when they try to get Texans to drill another well, we can tell ‘em all to go to . . .
Hyannis Port
VERSE 3
Cram them Yankees into little bitty cars while we drive around in limousines
There ain’t nothin’ in the world any more fun then pumpin’ gas in them big mo-chines
Us Texans love our Cadillacs, big Continentals and Pontiacs
We’re gonna keep all the oil that we can make, and let them Yankees shiver and shake
VERSE 4
Them Yankees say they need our oil and they gotta have gasoline
But don’t you put no refineries way up north, they wanna keep their air real clean
They only got enough lignite to last till midnight
Not enough fuel to keep their beer real cool
But we’ll send you lots of oil, now don’t you fear
If you promise not to move down here!
CHORUS TAG
Freeze a Yankee, Alleluia
Keep your Confederate credit cards, the South’s gonna rise again!
it’s time that all of the states tells the government to phock off.
Um... we have more state troopers than they have IRS field agents. And the advantage (traditionally) goes 3:1 for defense. And lets not get started on gap-toothed rednecks with 10K rounds.
/johnny
Freeze a Yankee...
Drive 75 and freeze ‘em alive...
This time of year I'm all for "global warming" (We still have large snowdrifts from the blizzard a few days ago).
I’m betting the state of Texas will hold it’s ground, and teleprompter boy will back down.
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