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EPA gives final "no" to Texas refinery permits
Scientific American ^
| 07/07/2010
| By Erwin Seba
Posted on 07/12/2010 5:03:16 PM PDT by EBH
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posted on
07/12/2010 5:03:19 PM PDT
by
EBH
To: EBH
Shutting America down, by oppressive suffocating federal regulation. Just like what Kagan described in her paper “presidential regulation”.
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posted on
07/12/2010 5:05:23 PM PDT
by
Tarpon
(Obama-Speak ... the fusion of sophistry and Newspeak. It's not a gift, it's just lies.)
To: EBH
EPA is reversing course, and our facilities are caught in the middle, creating significant uncertainty at a time when our economy can least afford it.”
Amazing how this administration creates uncertainty
where ever it touches.
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posted on
07/12/2010 5:07:14 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: EBH
the federal government just declared economic war on Texas and EVERY TEXAS DEMOCRAT should be booted out on his/her a$$.
Every parasite that depends on the democrat should be flushed out and defunded at the state level and every means should be employed to fine/tax/levy federal monies to the state coffers.
Vote for FLORES over the quisling Chet Edwards (democrat butt-boy to nancy pelosi)
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posted on
07/12/2010 5:07:14 PM PDT
by
erman
(Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.)
To: EBH
We should expect this to be just the beginning. Salazar has stated he wants gasoline to be eight dollars a gallon. All part of the One’s war to elimanate the middle class.
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posted on
07/12/2010 5:07:34 PM PDT
by
Free_SJersey
(Celebrate Diversity------------ Divide and Conquer?)
To: EBH
Obama and the EPA - taking jobs away from Americans who want to work.
Yep, that changey hopey thingy.
To: Tarpon
Obama: “Destroying white america is our goal! We will not stop until white america gives us their stuff!”
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posted on
07/12/2010 5:08:48 PM PDT
by
MrPiper
Comment #8 Removed by Moderator
To: EBH
The time is coming when people will be forced to choose between obedience and survival.
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posted on
07/12/2010 5:11:20 PM PDT
by
Psalm 144
(How many Michael Steele gaffes does it take to make a pattern?)
To: EBH
The Democrats’ War On Prosperity continues...
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posted on
07/12/2010 5:12:08 PM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
To: EBH
This action is known rightly as treason and sabotage!
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posted on
07/12/2010 5:12:46 PM PDT
by
J Edgar
To: EBH
Texas refineries have a combined crude oil throughput of 4.75 million barrels, equal to 26.8 percent of national refining capacity.Wow! 26.8%! That's a lot isn't it FUBO?
It Begins
First Oil Rig Relocates From Gulf to Foreign Waters "As a result of the uncertainties surrounding the offshore drilling moratorium, we are actively seeking international opportunities to keep our rigs fully employed," Dickerson said. "We greatly regret the loss of U.S. jobs that will result from this rig relocation."
It is not just Gulf operations that are being effected either.
Wait and see for Shell {Shell puts Arctic drilling plans on hold, waiting on feds}
The 0bama-Democrat-RINO (Progressive) "No Domestic Energy Policy!"
- No domestic drilling.
- No new refineries.
- No new nuke plants.
- No new dams for hydro-electric.
- No coal.
- No shale.
- Deplete the SPR.
- Let Iran get nukes.
- Let Iraq fall to Iranian domination.
- No Canadian tar sands oil.
- Loan billions to Brazil's Petrobras for offshore drilling in Brazil.
- Carbon caps and taxes to make what's left sky rocket in price.
All of that puts the U.S. in a position that war for oil or
complete economic collapse will be our only choices.
You can't frustrate every source of domestic energy
without consequences. Our enemies will blackmail us
to the extent that we are vulnerable to blackmail.
0bama, the Democrats and RINOs are leading us into a real war for oil.
A war we won't have the energy to fight.
A war we don't need to fight because we have our own resources.
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posted on
07/12/2010 5:17:24 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Greenhouse Theory is false. Totally debunked. "GH gases" is a non-sequitur.)
To: TigersEye
To: TigersEye
As a result of the uncertainties....
...creating significant uncertainty at a time when our economy can least afford it....
They are getting real good at this uncertainty and unexpected stuff....
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posted on
07/12/2010 5:20:20 PM PDT
by
EBH
(Our First Right...."it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,")
To: EBH
Received in email...TX Dem gov. candidate related to the refinery shutdowns:
From the RPT:
President Obama’s EPA has decided to mess with Texas, and they may be doing it on Bill White’s behalf. News broke on Wednesday that the EPA is rejecting Texas’ flexible permit system, a system that been in place for 16 years, has enjoyed bipartisan support, and has actually worked to reduce NOX emissions in Texas better than the EPA’s own programs work in other states. Gov. Perry, Lt. Gov. Dewhurst, Attorney General Abbott, and indeed all of the Republican leadership in Texas are outraged by the EPA’s actions.
As usual, there’s more to the story. The Democrats’ nominee for governor, Bill White, is right in the middle of the EPA’s extreme and unnecessary move. According to an editorial by the Houston Chronicle, White met with EPA regional director Al Armendariz last fall, and that meeting apparently spurred the EPA’s drive to attack Texas.
Mayor White has also been critical of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality as being too lax in enforcing state laws against polluters.....
After meeting with White, EPA officials announced that many of the TCEQ rules are in violation of the federal Clean Air Act.
Did the Democrat who wants to be Texas’ governor collude with the Obama EPA to hit Texas hard, putting Texas families and businesses at risk in the process, so he can play politics and blame it all on Gov. Rick Perry? Whatever one wants to call that, it certainly isn’t putting Texans first. Bill White needs to answer for this assault on our state.
As this move builds on the EPA’s decision to regulate CO2 without Congressional input, we seem to be looking at an agency that the Obama administration is using to command and control the US economy to further its far left statist agenda. The Obama administration wants to control everything - private industry, health care, everything - as part of President Obama’s campaign promise to “fundamentally transform America.” Even more appalling, these power grabs come at us while the Democrats in the White House and Congress show rank incompetence in their existing duties of securing the border and dealing with the oil spill that occurred in federal waters. And despite his recent rhetorical attempts to distance himself from his masters in the Democratic Party, Bill White is obviously arm in arm with them the whole way.
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posted on
07/12/2010 5:23:03 PM PDT
by
givemELL
(Does Taiwan eet the Criteria to Qualify as an "Overseas Territory of the United States"? by Richar)
To: EBH
What would happen if the refineries in Texas just told the EPA to stuff it, and continued to produce oil?
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posted on
07/12/2010 5:23:18 PM PDT
by
JoeA
(JoeA / Welcome to the Second American Revolution)
To: Psalm 144
equal to 26.8 percent of national refining capacity. It is coming much sooner than many folks think.
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posted on
07/12/2010 5:23:50 PM PDT
by
EBH
(Our First Right...."it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,")
To: givemELL
EPA officials announced that many of the TCEQ rules are in violation of the federal Clean Air Act. Sixteen years worth of rules are in violation? C'mon now...we see you, really we do...we see what you are up too.
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posted on
07/12/2010 5:26:24 PM PDT
by
EBH
(Our First Right...."it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,")
To: EBH
Uncertainty sure has a devastating economic effect doesn't it? The markets, industry, banks, individual investors, foreign countries, small businesses, families ...
Everyone is battened down and retreating. The Man-Child President is going to find that it's much harder to instill confidence than it is to kill it. Assuming he ever decides to do that.
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posted on
07/12/2010 5:28:42 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Greenhouse Theory is false. Totally debunked. "GH gases" is a non-sequitur.)
To: bfree
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