Posted on 01/14/2014 7:05:44 AM PST by rktman
Now a new Environmental Protection Agency rule on power plants requires a massive reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and threatens to block any new coal-fired energy facilities because they cannot hope to meet the new standards without using unproven and cost-prohibitive technology.
Concerned individuals may email the EPA with their comments at a-and-r-Docket@epa.gov. Comments MUST reference Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0495.
The rule is currently in the public comment phase, but free-market energy advocates see the coal industry clearly within the Obama administration’s crosshairs.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Yeah. Great job of parenting there billy ray. With any luck, she’ll follow the “beeb” and tweet that she’s retiring from being a nasty little skank.
No new gas fired power plants? Where do you get your information from? I work in the industry and this is the first I’ve heard of it.
Sadly for us it ain’t just the electricity that’s skyrocketing. The price of EVERYTHING is “necessarily”(?) skyrocketing. Although gas (reg. unleaded)[why do we bother with the term unleaded any more?] was down to $3.29 a couple weeks ago but has now climbed back up to $3.41. Must have been necessary.
“If they are able to do this, and if they get away with it, they will then go after existing coal-fired power plants,” Simmons warned.”
The EPA is already shutting down existing coal fired power plants. Two are being shut down here in GA. I cannot for the life of me understand why the governors are not just telling the EPA to stuff it.
I believe the plan is to severly limit your electrical usage. At some point you will be alloted so many KW’s per month and when you hit that number your smart meter will turn off your electricity until the first of the next month. Air conditioning will be a thing of the past. You just need to sweat a little for the good of the planet.
The other thing that I see coming our way is an electrical grid so stressed especially in the summer that it will go down. Just a matter of what moment in time.
“If you have your coal fired energy plant, you can keep your coal fired energy plant” - King Potentate Obanga, Single Payer _Resident
What did Socialists use for light before they had candles?
Answer: Electricity
Despite folks working to NOT have smart meters (i.e. control devices) placed on our homes in NV, they got installed anyway. And on the gas meters too. Couple of key strokes and your off. Or pre-programmed to shut you down when you reach your allotted amount. Chilly? The ever idiotic jimmah cahtah would advise a sweater.
New Natural Gas Power plants in Texas under construction as of Dec 31, 2013
http://www.puc.texas.gov/industry/maps/elecmaps/gentable.pdf
Calpine Channel EC Pasadena NG 260 MW
Calpine Deer Park EC Deer Park NG 260 MW
Friendswood Energy Genco Friendswood Energy Generation NG 316 MW
LCRA Ferguson Project Horseshoe Bay NG 570 MW
Panda Energy Sherman Power Sherman NG 809 WM
Panda Energy Temple Power Temple NG 791 WM
Agree 110%! Obozo is a national security issue.
There is no other country in the world that has done more to improve coal technology...but it's never enough with the enviro-nuts.
Before Obozo took office, 12/06/2008 I was paying $1.41 per gallon of reg. unleaded. 12/15/2008 - $1.29, 1/03/2009 - $1.24 per gallon.
Here we are years into this guys reign and I am shelling out almost three times this amount for gasoline.
Along with the 2% Social Security hike on my income and my wife's income, increased insurance premiums due to Obozocare, stalled economy causing stagnant wages....the Kenyan’s killing off the middle class.
Hope and change? More like inhibit and depress.
Seems I have the advantage of having actually read the article.
From Obama’s 2008 speech:
““So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted” Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board in January 2008.
He added, “Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to, uh, retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.”
See my post #32 for Obama’s quote about pricing Nat Gas out of feasibility, along with everything else.
But the cap-and-trade system was never implemented.
New Power Plants are being built, including coal and natural gas.
The main problem in interpreting this clown’s actions is deciding whether he and his are ignorant or malicious in harming our country.
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Why won't they? Gas is much cleaner than coal.
We got our smart meters about 5 years ago. Georgia Power sent out a letter to everyone swearing to Buddha that the meters cannot track the energy use of any individual appliance.
Now we get a little energy report every month in the mail which tells us in a very upbeat chirpy way how our last months’ energy use compares to everybody else. Fortunately our house is really well insulated and shaded so we don’t use excessive energy and our report is always “good” or “excellent” But I’m waiting for the time when they start coming down on the people who use more than average electricity.
We are putting together our retirement retreat with a complete alternate off grid solar system. If it gets too hairy or the grid simply fails we will just shut the power off and go on our solar. Unless the EPA is put under control its going to come to that.
Some are just ignoramus's.....
Others are "Transforming America"........
I'll let you figure out who's who.
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