Unfortunately this is what usually happens....
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.
“If CO2 is a dangerous pollutant, then the government can stop us humans from “polluting” by stopping us from breathing. IOW, the power of government shall be without limit.”
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An unerring train of thought which is impossible to fault but will be disregarded by many. The EPA has actually claimed authority to determine a maximum lifespan for Americans, to determine who may have children and how many, to end the use of power lawnmowers, to limit or end the keeping of pets, the list goes on forever but people will try to act as though it is no big deal.
***About 20 years ago, those industries were forced to install flue gas desulphurization equipment on their dime.***
Actually it is older than 20 years ago. back about 1969 and 1970 there was lots of advertising against scrubbers in the major magazines (LIFE, LOOK). They failed.
Scrubbers are good for high sulfur eastern coal so most new plants after that time started using extremely low sulfer western coal and precipitators to remove 99.9% of the ash.
Now, plants designed for low sulfer coal are having to retrofit with scrubbers to remove that last smidgen of sulfer to please the environmentalists. Now the enviros have found new enemies to battle in low sulfer coal power. Mercury. Radiation. nitrous oxide and (gasp) lead!
Unfortunately this is what usually happens....
Class Action Lawsuit against the EPA . Invite ALL Americans to join the suit.
I took chem in college..I actually found more students having trouble with general chem than organic chem. Go figure.
So the antidote to CO2 poisoning is lead poisoning. sarc/
Americans are not going to take much more...
Is there no one in gubmint that has noticed the sales numbers of firearms and ammunition since ACORN committed massive election fraud?
The founding fathers warned us.
WINK, WINK
The American public will not tolerate having their toilet paper and booze taken away...
Could be, seeing that the UN’s crack scientists can’t tell the difference between 2350 and 2035.
All I know is I had to tell the plants in my herb garden not to worry. It can’t stand up to scutiny. I exhaled on each of them several times.
Not a bad idea.
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