Posted on 02/18/2009 8:59:09 PM PST by phatus maximus
WASHINGTON The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to act for the first time to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that scientists blame for the warming of the planet, according to top Obama administration officials.
The decision, which most likely would play out in stages over a period of months, would have a profound impact on transportation, manufacturing costs and how utilities generate power. It could accelerate the progress of energy and climate change legislation in Congress and form a basis for the United States negotiating position at United Nations climate talks set for December in Copenhagen.
The environmental agency is under order from the Supreme Court to make a determination whether carbon dioxide is a pollutant that endangers public health and welfare, an order that the Bush administration essentially ignored despite near-unanimous belief among agency experts that research points inexorably to such a finding.
Lisa P. Jackson, the new E.P.A. administrator, said in an interview that she had asked her staff to review the latest scientific evidence and prepare the documentation for a so-called endangerment finding. Ms. Jackson said she had not decided to issue such a finding but she pointedly noted that the second anniversary of the Supreme Court decision, Massachusetts v. E.P.A., is April 2, and there is the wide expectation that she will act by then.
We here know how momentous that decision could be, Ms. Jackson said. We have to lay out a road map.
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That should lift the average Democrat voter IQ a few notches.
I think it might be time to invent the “conversion lung” which takes our co2, pulls in air and recycles the O and emits CO...a simple tank with back holster and air mask will be needed, but if we’re all wearing them no one will look weird!!
Thanks, I was getting dizzy!
Regulations, from H20 to C20... The war on Carbon continues unabated...
My pleasure...life is highly valued by the Obama dictatorship you know.
This Marxist bastard has already done serious damage in weeks. He has FOUR YEARS more to destroy America. Unless drastic measures are taken and taken soon by those of us left who are aware of whats going on, we will be destroyed in 4 years.Once people are “given things” it will be impossible to elect someone who will take them away ..It’s their plan in case you haven’t figured it out. Get more than %50 of the population to be beholding to you and you win every time in the future. Who is going to vote themselves out of “things”?
Been saying that for four years. Especially when Putin looks up and realizes that Siberia is a population crash and needs settlers to keep the Chinese out.
That’s CO2, not C20.
Even Redskin Redneck Republicans? I’m 66, not too healthy, I figure they’ll want rid of me soon!
Well...maybe not so much you or me...but “others” who support the mantra’s of the big O.
*This* will be the last nail in the coffin of our economy. Our nation will be in a complete meltdown within a year of these policies being enacted.
If they think that we’ll be a weak, demoralized people and easier to manage once we’re starving, they don’t know us very well.
Americans don’t lay down! We get p*ssed!
So, Mr. President, do you recommend us peasants to hold our breath when asleep?
Let's start with "odd and even days", just like the gas crisis of the 1970s. If your age is odd, you only exhale on odd days ...
It's almost as if they're prodding the American people to do 'something'.
Aw c'mon, man! It's good for a whole buncha other, uhh....stuff! I just like...cant' think of what they are right now, maaaaaaan!
I dunno. What's your life expectancy?
Is it still too soon to shoot the bastards?
not long enough me thinks...
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