Posted on 10/01/2014 8:19:41 AM PDT by rktman
EPA has proposed one of the largest, most expensive regulations in American history. These rules will impact our entire economy, hurt America’s diverse energy portfolio, and result in higher electricity prices while having little benefit to the environment. EPA is asking for public comment on this vast, regulatory overreach between now and December 1, 2014. We need you to share your views with EPA by sending the letter below, or using the open space to personally tell EPA how higher energy prices will impact you, your business, and your family.
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Environmentalists finally have the Power to send the US back to the Stone Age ,with help from Obama’s Muslims
LOL! Just tryin’ to level the playing field I guess. If they don’t have power, we shouldn’t either. It’s only fair right? Uh, no thanks.
All EPA rules which will affect grid capacity
need to be required to be “megawatt neutral” -
ie, they can’t take any currently operating plant offline until a megawatt equivalent is online.
Nah. The epa just imposes rules and regs and requirements that carry the weight of law. Kinda weird huh. I suppose now that mud puddles can be covered by the epa, any water anywhere, be it river, stream, lake, pond, ocean, dry creekbed, arroyo, bucket, discarded tire or anything that “might” hold water will, henceforth, be simply be classified a “body of water” so that it’s covered by them.
Keep in mind that the EPA considers individual comments as “outliers”. Thta is just how it works.
I recommend aligning yourself with an industry group or other “action committee” that agrees with your views.
It may be prudent to convene a FreeRepublic committee to contribute to these Federal rules.
The unfortunate part would be that it would cost money that is better used to keep FR up-and-running.
LOL! So basically your telling us that our comments get tossed in to the “denier” round file. Man, those warmunists think of eva thang.
Unfortunately, yes. Individual comments get minimized/marginalized.
Reflect that, when the Sierra Club sends a comment, they reference their 150,000+ membership. That’s 150,000 votes that can change the local vote outcome...by a wide margin.
They can “not care” about the cost all they want,
but they ain’t shutting down plant A until plant B comes online.
Passing Regulation that requires expensive solar replacing cheap coal is not acceptable, even if the Solar comes on line before the coal is shut down.
As mentioned in related threads, with the exception of the federal entities listed in the Constitution's Clause 17 of Section 8 of Article I as examples, entities under the exclusive legislative control of Congress, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to decide policy for intrastate environmental issues. With all due respect to family and friends of the late President Nixon, he was wrong to sign the bill that established the EPA into law.
In fact, note that the Supreme Court has clarified in general that powers not expressly delegated to the feds via the Constitution, the power to decide policy for intrastate environmental issues in this example, are prohibited to the feds.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
If Nixon had really wanted the feds to have the constitutional authority to decide policy for environmental issues then he should have done the following. Nixon needed to encourage Congress to propose an environmental protection amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. And if the states had chosen to ratify Nixon's amendment then the feds would have the constitutional authority that they need to decide policy for intrastate environmental issues and Nixon would be a hero.
Sadly, it’s gotten to the point that certain agencies could give two craps about what the constitution or congress have to say. Above the law? In their eyes they are.
Along with my electric bill this month was a notice that electric rates will increase by 8.5% on 1/1/15. Why? According to the explanation given, rates needed to be increased to cover the environmental requirements that have come down from both the Federal and California governments. In California, we can thank Arnold and Moonbeam, and of course for the Feds, it is Obama and his environmental bureaucrats. I have a feeling the 8.5% increase is just the beginning.
Most of these regulations are being foisted upon us by lobby interests (environuts in california via sierra club, nat gas speculators, banning coal, nuclear, hydro, etc), and they are running the energy economy straight into the ground for fun and profit.
Wanna beat them at their own game?
Cut off california and the northeast from the electrical grids, along with shutting down all of the oil and nat gas pipelines to those regions, and stop all rail shipments of coal, oil, and propane to those areas too. When they revolt, just tell them that they are merely getting what the EPA, and their environmental lobbyists wanted, so tough shit, freeze in the dark, fry in the heat, and suffer the consequences of the fools you put in charge.
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