Posted on 11/20/2014 1:58:01 PM PST by ThethoughtsofGreg
Ever since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its Clean Power Plan proposal this past June, a number of analyses have been conducted to try and determine the total cost of the regulation to electricity consumers. A report released this morning by Energy Ventures Analysis (EVA), however, goes a step further.
In addition to the Clean Power Plan, EPA has recently finalized, proposed, or will soon propose a slew of environmental regulations affecting the electric power sector. These include new National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone and particulate matter, the Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) to address interstate transport of air pollution, Mercury and Air Toxic Standards (MATS), and regional haze regulations intended to reduce regional haze and improve visibility in national parks.
These regulations have a cumulative effect of imposing considerable financial burdens on the electric power sector and, ultimately, consumers. Similarly, natural gas prices can also be expected to rise as a result of the increased demand created by the Clean Power Plan. Precisely how much electricity and gas prices will increase is exactly what EVA sought to determine.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanlegislator.org ...
Assuming nat gas stays cheap, at what point does it become economic to go off the grid with a household generator?
Oh, the Rats REALLY are for poor folks. We call this stealing where I come from.
The Environmental Protection Agency was implemented by an executive order. It can be eliminated by the same means. For extra credit, name the president who instituted the EPA.
Nixon.
You Win a Cookie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXA338ro1mo
A GOP President can reverse this and give a Refund/Credit
/johnny
Don’t think that natural gas will be exempted from the tax.
Out of control government.
That's one promise he'll be able to check off.
Green is the color of the environmental movement as only the wealthy will be able to survive in their utopia.
The rats will further complicate the tax code by instituting credits for people in a certain income bracket (not employed) while shafting everybody who works in a private sector job.
Try 500%.
“... reduce regional haze and...da da DA..... improve visibility in national parks.”.
these morons need to re enter the job market in a slightly more productive area of endeavor!!
Lot of people going to freeze to death. What will Dems say?
They will do some emergency funding, taking more money from the few who have it, to be sure the electric bills are paid for the “poor” people. They will blame it on the “heartless GOP” that people are even at risk of freezing to death. The GOP will do nothing to refute that.
NIXON
They would be victims of global warming and thus more regulations are needed to avoid deaths in the future.
Yes, I realize that more regulations would most likely lead to higher costs. But, more deaths would mean less carbon footprints on the earth/s
ping!
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