Posted on 12/08/2009 5:22:40 AM PST by shortstop
Carbon dioxide is poison.
That’s what the EPA says.
The public health is at risk. Carbon dioxide is poison and an “endangerment” edict has been issued and the government is going to run your life.
Even more than it does already.
In one more Obama lurch toward totalitarianism, the administration announced yesterday that the Environmental Protection Agency has determined that carbon dioxide is a threat to clean air and that it, the EPA, claims the authority to impose binding rules across the society and economy to cut American production of CO2.
That’s right, the same CO2 you exhale something like 17,000 times a day.
The same CO2 that’s been a part of the earth’s atmosphere since before some primordial slug bred with a species of puss to produce the first Democrats.
Barack Obama has decided that CO2 is a danger you must be protected from. And on Wednesday, his EPA director, in a European backwater named after a brand of chewing tobacco, will explain to the world exactly how the American economy will be gutted.
And next week, after collecting his Nobel Peace Prize, Caesar Obama will himself stand before the high priesthood of the global-warming cult and share his wisdom.
And you and I will be dirt.
And what we used to know as America will be on the high road to extinction. Without a vote of Congress, without the people being consulted, contrary public opinion and priority, the president’s unelected minions will reshape the very nature of our lives.
Is that an overstatement?
No. It is, in fact, an understatement.
Because carbon dioxide is integral to our lives and livelihoods.
Like driving a car, eating food, having electricity, working our jobs and buying stuff at the store. All of those things – from our diets to our lights – produce CO2. Consequently, an Obama clamp down on CO2 is going to crimp those parts of our lives, making them more expensive and potentially unattainable.
Let’s start with transportation.
Though a single volcano spews forth more CO2 than all the cars in all the countries in all the history of humankind combined, personal transportation is not possible in a carbon dioxide-restricted society.
Translation: Kiss your car good bye.
Even these taxpayer-subsidized alternative energy cars produce CO2, though usually they do it indirectly, through the generation of electricity.
Your car is a huge producer of carbon dioxide. Do you think the government is going to let you keep driving it the way you always have?
And what about trucks?Trucks and trains – which combine to move almost all of American’s consumer goods – both produce high levels of carbon dioxide. That will be capped and taxed, and transportation costs will go up – and you will see that reflected on everything you buy at the store.Especially food.
Because the production of your food puts a lot of CO2 into the air. Vegetables, grains and fruits all require vehicles and processing – from irrigating to canning – that put out CO2. Food production is one of the largest sources of carbon dioxide in the nation.
Especially meat.Various global-warming cultists have said that the American diet – rich in meat and dairy – is the single-largest source of global-warming gasses in the developed world. Many of the global-warming leaders are also vegans and vegetarians.To save the planet, activists say, you have to stop eating meat.
And those activists have a friend in the White House. A friend who, with yesterday’s declaration, now has limitless power.To turn out your lights.Electricity is the foundation of modern life. It affects and enables almost everything we do. It also is a giant producer of carbon dioxide. Through wonderful coal and natural gas production, we have available and inexpensive electricity.But the global-warming people want to change that. With their cap-and-trade nonsense and their loathing of coal – remember Obama saying as a candidate he would bankrupt anybody who tried to open a coal-fired power plant? – the first place the EPA will look is electricity.Then we can all learn what rolling blackouts are, and what sky-high electric bills are.The issue won’t just be the affordability of electricity, it will be the availability of electricity.And nobody uses electricity like business. Factories and stores need it to function. And we need them to earn a paycheck. But as the Obama CO2 witch hunt goes forward, and business is burdened with global-warming costs, your boss isn’t going to be able to afford you.
If he can even stay in business.
All of this has come about without a single vote of Congress. This is not the will of the people as expressed by their elected representatives – as it’s supposed to be in a Republic – it is the dictate of liberal Obama appointees. We are slaves to the bureaucrats.
And there’s nothing we can do about it.Carbon dioxide is poison.
Maybe they’ll fine God for inventing it.
And there’s nothing we can do about it.
?
When, in the course of human events, ...
I wonder how many global warming gases come out of the barrel of a gun?
Since CO2 is a normal and naturally occuring compound, and the only way to reduce it is to eliminate the process that produces it (i.e. shut down power plants, park cars, close factories, kill cows, etc.), and since the gubmnit proposes "offsetting" the emission of the noxious CO2 by the payment of large sums of money (mostly to companies owned or controlled by AlGore), the actual purpose of these new regulations is to extort cash to fill their pockets.
The Emperor not only has not clothes, he is on a float parading down main street dry humping Tiger Woods accompanied by several dozen topless Las Vegas showgirls.
Sheesh! How can America be so stupid?!?!?
Volunteer to become Soylent Green...
Molon Labe.
Simple if I could remember a damn thing about chemistry...
Otherwise, it just makes my brain go "ouch."
Ah, gunpowder. Sad that I had to look it up. I never really was any good at following the chemical equations, however, I can tell you that hydric acid can be deadly when inhaled, but for some reason, it’s benign when ingested.
OK, let’s just say this -
yes, discharge of gunpowder-based cartridges DOES produce CO2 in significant quantities.
But the recipient of the projectile is far more likely to die of lead poisoning than CO2 poisoning.
...or a bullet between the eyes....that solution is rapidly becoming an option...
Carry on.
No; they haven't.
ANYone wtih a brain educated in public schools can SEE that CO2 is TWICE as bad as CO!
No; they haven't.
ANYone wtih a brain educated in public schools can SEE that CO2 is TWICE as bad as CO!
There ya go!
Do teleprompters produce CO2?
That looks exothermic...
Too long ago to remember... :)
Wait, of COURSE it’s “exothermic”...
a whole BUNCH exothermic...
But remember:
The inventor of SMOKELESS gunpower got a Nobel Peace Prize!
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