The screws on our freedoms tighten slowly, but inexorably.
This standard should be fought and fought hard. The reason is simple enough. When was enough, ever enough for environmental activists? I harken back to the days of silence when very few such folks were given a listening ear. Once they began to be heard, the goal posts have been moving with unfortunate and increasingly expensive regularity.
The EPA , like the IRS and the Dept of Education, has become nothing but a fascist vehicle for the expansion of coercive utopianism and fascism. Most of their activity has been by executive order. All three need to be “shut down.” I am looking forward to their being “shut down” permanantly.
The Constitution requires it be done.
How much will it reduce refinery output? What will be the economic impact?
Does anyone know if the rule applies only to domestic refineries? I believe the US imports considerable amounts of refined petroleum products. It may be the Venezuelan and other offshore refineries won’t make the capital investment in equipment to meet the standards, no matter what the EPA says.
I suspect the long term strategy of the leftists is to move the goal post to a place where the standards are unachievable. Then the regulators will use heavy fines to punish the evil oil companies. This stealth regulatory “tax” via fines on big corporations seems another strategy of the executive branch to assume the taxing powers of Congress.
I’ve noticed under Obama every few days there seems to be a story in the media about some company agreeing to millions, or in the case of some financial institutions billions, in fines imposed by some regulatory agency. We’ve also seen the same with companies threatened with lawsuits by the Justice Department settling for millions without going to court. It seems our current administration uses every tool of government to achieve its redistribution goals.
So by reducing sulfer from 30 parts per million to10 parts per million it will prevent 2, 400 deaths....
I love to see the “science” behind that calculation....
There is this bridge in Brooklyn....up for sell...
And I bet 199,995 of them were negative.
$.09/per gallon for this? This madness has got to stop.
translation: He’s already at 43%. Hike the cost of gas fifty cents a gallon and thus begins the death spiral.
He’s going to be tip toeing around requirements until after the 2014 elections he has to get the congress to complete the master plan.
This is not nine cents a gallon, more like $2.00 a gallon. You are talking a billion plus per refinery to comply and more to do it in three years.