Posted on 06/29/2015 7:44:32 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
The court thought it could simply throw us a little bone and all of a sudden we'd love them again? Is that what this is? After what they did to this country, they think they can just give us a itty bitty win so we can all sing kumbaya? Then when obmoa dictates his own rules anyway, we can't blame the court for it?
I'm sorry, but I've lost all respect for the courts. They'll dictate anything they want to dictate. They'll protect only their own interests. It's not like they're trying to hide their lawlessness anymore.
Oh shaddup. You are delusional.
The reason this isn’t a big win is because the power plants have already shut down and the damage continued waiting for a SCOTUS decision. They are gone for good.
You apply some of that to your delusional opinion.
It’s obvious that you are someone who has control over what is going on in Washington. Why aren’t you doing something?
Yep. That's why I figured the court thought if it trew us this bone, all of a sudden we wouldn't be mad at them for helping oboma destroy our country anymore - Because this time we won! Yaaaaay!!! Who hoooo! (not)
The rules against wood heaters and water heaters remain, of course, as an obstacle to common Americans getting homes built and having homebuilt, energy-efficient heating. And the state and local governments will see to it that the extortions are done.
Global, bipartisan, corporate-government crooks.
But they left the Administration a way out in allowing the EPA to still regulate them if a cost assessment is provided.
So, who will Hillary appoint? /S
Yeah, so you let us all know when a SCOTUS ruling is important. After all, they're either important, or thinking they're important is delusional.
How about this - you thinking you can control the importance of a SCOTUS ruling by your opinion is the very definition of delusional. Except, of course, you don't really believe that - you just act like it, in order to spread FUD on FR for your masters. Crawl away now, go back to your job.
I am doing something - I'm outing you as a Leftist shill spreading FUD on FR. After all, if what you're doing wasn't politically important to your Washington masters, they wouldn't pay you to do it.
You must have forgotten to take your meds today.
Many here do not agree with you.
Get over it.
Seems like someone of your obvious superior talents and intellect could find something more useful to do than engaging in mental masturbation.
“Scrotus for short.”
I am seeing ‘scrotus’ in several other forums. It seems to be going viral.
“I am seeing ‘scrotus’ in several other forums. It seems to be going viral.”
Great! I started it here!
Nuclear Regulatory Commission pronouncements need cost benefit, which is cooked typically to favor expansion of their authority.
Having a husband that has been at a coal fired power plant for 35 years, they do not love these mandates. These recent mandates have caused the retiring of 80,000 megawatts from the power grid. Have caused the closing down and loss of jobs at numerous power plants. One of these mandates costs the company that my husband works for 17 million a year at 1 power plant to remove the amount of a bushel basket of ping pong balls filled with mercury amongst a entire cooling tower full of ping pong balls in one year. That’s also not factoring in the cost of 1.2 BILLION dollars to put the system in to place..... So multiply that times the number of power plants in the country that had to do this? Who do you thinks going to pay for it? That’s a lot of money and to top it off, it took a reuseable by produce of flyash, to be used in concrete and now it’s stored in landfills, because the mercury turns the flyash a dirty color, so the concrete is not attractive and they don’t want to use it. SWEET.
Hey guys, a clarification is in order: By “power company” I meant the companies that are the government regulated monopolies that deliver power to customer. They own the lines and sometimes have a separate subsidiary that owns generation. it is these companies, e.g. Duke, Vectren that I am referring to.
In general, power generation and distribution is shaping up to be like health care. We will have a few government controlled monopolies that will make serious money and they will always sign on to more regulation. It is classical crony capitalism and rent seeking.
They will protest loudly while at the very same time negotiating their rate increases. They will use their cozy regulatory relationships to drive out competitors.
The great part is that Capitalism will be blamed for the fiasco. Then as electric rates skyrocket we will see a flood of imported items that are energy intensive. Then Freepers will cry “Buy American!” and “Free Trade Doesn’t Work!”.
Sure they do, but Duke, Vectren all still have power plants that make the electricity that they ultimately sell. Granted, they may be owned by the same parent company but regardless and the cost is passed on. You won’t only see utility prices sky rocket, you’ll not have it either! There isn’t enough wind, solar, hydro or gas fired available yet to take the place that coal fired makes and is being retired. I’d say it’s whole house generator time.
I know in Texas at least, generation is a separate company than transmission and distribution. It wasn’t that way 25 years ago when I worked at Houston Looting and Plunder (Lighting and Power), but we were preparing for the split coming with “deregulation”.
“We will have a few government controlled monopolies that will make serious money and they will always sign on to more regulation. It is classical crony capitalism and rent seeking.”
I couldn’t agree more.
What happened back in the day when MaBell was divided because of violating monopoly laws? Guess those laws don’t matter any more. Like most of our laws.
All we need is justice Eric Holder and it is all over.
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