Go FoR It , Earl!
...As if 0bama would sign it. The only way this will become law is if they can get enough votes to overrule a veto. I can’t imagine 0bama signing a law that undermines his EPA.
Of course, it would be nice to get Congress on record, either supporting the EPA rules or being against them.
Another Dementocrat preparing to abandon ship.
He MIGHT be able to get this passed. Notice that it very cleverly reserves to congress the right to pass new carbon taxes in the future, if they choose to do so. It simply denies the EPA bureaucrats the right to twist the current regulations into something never intended by congress.
Also, good luck to Obama if he puts himself forward and vetoes this bill. Not too many people are going to want to see their fuel bills doubled. And not too many workers in swing states are going to want to see their coal mines shut down.
And what happens if the EPA manages to kill the Alaska-Canada gas pipeline that Exxon agreed to build? That will pit Obama directly against Sarah Palin, who enabled that deal.
Boneheaded is the reight word to use.
I don’t think the average consumer understands what a carbon tax would do to their electric bill. The current Co2 capture technology takes 30% of a coal plant’s output to run. That would be like putting a CO2 capture unit on the exhaust pipe of your car with it taking one of every three gallons of gas to run the unit. Wouldn’t sit too well. What the utilities need to do is tell the consumers if they don’t want their electic bills to go up by 50%-100% take it up with the government they elected. It’s not the fault of the utilities - they are trying to meet mandates set by the government the consumers elected. If I were a utility that’s what I would tell the consumer, and in no uncertain terms.
North Dakota has had enough of Obama, so Nancy lets this guy talk about putting up a bill with absolutely zero chance of doing anything except helping him look better to voters back home.