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Things That Will Cost More Under Obama’s Climate Change Plan
Heritage Foundation ^ | June 26, 2013 | Amy Payne

Posted on 06/29/2013 1:31:05 PM PDT by IbJensen

President Obama doesn’t “have time for a meeting of the flat-Earth society.” And he probably considers you a member if you disagree with him on his crushing regulatory approach to climate change.

The heck of it is, the policies he advocates actually would not help the Earth.

Before Obama’s speech yesterday, Heritage’s Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow, Nicolas Loris, explained the President’s dilemma:

But let’s pretend we were able to stop emitting all carbon immediately. Forget the electricity to cool our homes in the summer months. Shut down the power plants. Stop driving our cars. No talking. The Science and Public Policy Institute found that the global temperature would decrease by 0.17 degrees Celsius—by 2100. These regulations are all pain no gain.

That’s what President Obama’s climate change plan would not do.

What President Obama’s climate change plan would do: increase the price of just about everything.

Whether it’s regulating appliances or eliminating coal from the nation’s energy diet, Obama’s plan has the same effect: hiking the cost of living.

Think through your day. Everything you buy, everything you eat, everything you wear… it was all produced using energy. Just a few of the things that will be more expensive under Obama’s plan:

•Heating and cooling your home

•Buying a car and driving—from your work commute to soccer practice and everywhere in between

•Turning on the lights

•Washing and drying clothes

But that’s not all. Think even bigger. What will it mean for President Obama’s war on coal to hike natural gas prices by 42 percent?

Sure, you may have a gas-powered furnace or oven. But natural gas is powering much more, as Heritage’s Loris, David Kreutzer, and Kevin Dayaratna explain:

Natural gas is not only a critical source of electricity generation; natural gas and other gases extracted from natural gas provide a feedstock for fertilizers, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, waste treatment, food processing, fueling industrial boilers, and much more.

From food processing to waste treatment—the entire cycle of life will cost more!

Of course, it doesn’t help that you will also have less income. Forthcoming research from these Heritage experts shows that Obama’s anti-coal policies will cause a family of four to lose more than $1,000 in annual income.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: climatestupidity; evilobamaregime; globalwarming; gorebalwarming; killingamerica
Stop the insanity! The experiment didn't work out well at all. In order to prove that Americans are not prejudiced a negro was elected president.

Not just any negro, but one that nobody knew anything about. He was, and is, a complete mystery man who has no verifiable background. He and his wife keep referring to Kenya as his place of birth and his puppet masters keep saying that anyone who questions his birthplace is a racist bigot.

We now know a few more things about him and none of it is good! He is a egotistical megalomaniacal, socialist-Muslim who hates the west; especially the United States. In order to vent his spleen he is destroying this nation to the point that it would take 50-100 years to restore it and even then with the Congress and the Supreme Court as his sycophants it may never be restored.

This fool is totally obsessed with controlling every aspect of our lives, taking away all the freedoms this country's founders put their lives on the line for 240 years ago, all in the name of protecting the earth. What a bunch of BS! This ass takes Americans for a bunch of boobs. Are we so timid we won't stand up to these environmental wackos and demand they get lost? We have an evil government headed by an evil president and an equally evil Congress; a government obsessed with growing bigger at any cost for any reason it can fabricate.

1 posted on 06/29/2013 1:31:06 PM PDT by IbJensen
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To: IbJensen

Americans don’t care as long as the free stuff keeps coming each week. Otherwise, ho hum. They don’t care. THIS is what America has become. The Zimbabwe of America.


2 posted on 06/29/2013 1:33:07 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (1 Cor 15: 50-54 & 1 Thess 4: 13-17. That about covers it.)
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To: IbJensen

Everything.


3 posted on 06/29/2013 1:33:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Ditto!


4 posted on 06/29/2013 1:39:24 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Jim Robinson

The only things that won’t be affected by Obama’s crazed War On Energy are things that do not require any form of energy in their manufacture, creation or distribution.

I can’t think of anything that would fit into that category.


5 posted on 06/29/2013 1:42:26 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Rubio's New Book: From Nobody To Senator, To Conservative savior, Then Back To Nobody")
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To: IbJensen

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls our climates.

3. The earth is a rock.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?


6 posted on 06/29/2013 1:50:43 PM PDT by abclily
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To: Jim Robinson

Clearly you are being unfair. You have to have an elementary knowledge of basic Economics to know the correct answer, and you shouldn’t expect that of anyone.

Do I have to include the < /s>?

Nothing like increasing the cost of everything as we attempt to work our way out of a severe recession/depression.


7 posted on 06/29/2013 1:55:31 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster; shibumi

Pink Floyd did it already.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5_0iZQ-TuA


8 posted on 06/29/2013 2:07:10 PM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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To: IbJensen

Essentially, everything.


9 posted on 06/29/2013 2:14:25 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economiws In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: abclily
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?

Blood Sacrifice

Ours


10 posted on 06/29/2013 2:27:27 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: IbJensen

Everyone should keep track of where the democrats live in their neighborhoods. When the collapse comes, go over and take back your wealth.


11 posted on 06/29/2013 3:09:29 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: IbJensen

Barky is something we don’t see that often... A politician who actually does what he promised while running.

Fundamentally changing the United States? Check
Moving the USA to “single payer” health care? Check
“Build a coal fired power plant, and we’ll bankrupt you?” Check
“The price of energy will necessarily skyrocket?” Coming soon

He’s doing exactly what he told us he’d be doing.

Mark


12 posted on 06/29/2013 3:36:28 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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13 posted on 06/29/2013 7:59:10 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I don't always vote, but when I do, I SURE AS HELL DON'T VOTE DEMOCRAT!)
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14 posted on 06/29/2013 8:00:04 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I don't always vote, but when I do, I SURE AS HELL DON'T VOTE DEMOCRAT!)
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15 posted on 06/29/2013 8:01:09 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I don't always vote, but when I do, I SURE AS HELL DON'T VOTE DEMOCRAT!)
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To: RetiredArmy
You see it too?

As a Nation we have went from,"Give me liberty or give me death" to "Give me freebies and take my liberty". We have gone from, "I can do it". to "I need a government bureaucrat to wipe my ass."

16 posted on 06/29/2013 8:06:49 PM PDT by sport
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Thanks for the ping!


17 posted on 06/29/2013 8:12:56 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: MarkL

There are so many more things this mysterious egotist has done to America that time and space prohibits.

He has single-handedly (Well, not quite. He’s had great help from the scores of cronies appointed to ‘key’ positions over agencies that should have been eradicated decades ago. Additionally the one party Congress and the Supreme Kort has been of significant assistance.) turned America into a train wreck.


18 posted on 06/30/2013 4:21:09 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: sport

Roger the wipe my ass behind. 10-4.


19 posted on 06/30/2013 6:17:08 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (1 Cor 15: 50-54 & 1 Thess 4: 13-17. That about covers it.)
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