Posted on 12/13/2010 11:51:43 AM PST by EBH
bump
So what happens if the refineries ignore the EPA? I think that’s what it should do. Any fines that issued should be ignored. How can the EPA shut the refinery down? I think Texas law enforcement should protect the refineries from entry by feds.
I have lived in S. Texas since 1973, and moved to and from Los Angeles four times since 1988. Our air is so clear here, you can see all the way across Houston down Hwy 59 when it is not a cloudy rainy day. In Los Angeles we often couldn’t see the house across the street, due to the smog. Yet WE are the ones always being penalized.
Tell the EPA to take a long run off a short pier.
January can’t come soon enough. Defund the EPA.
The EPA is way too powerful, not elected poisitions, should be SHUT DOWN!
This is just Chicago politics in action.
Does the EPA realize that these actions will only hurt the economy, & with it Obama’s ability to get re-elected?
Keep it up, EPA!
This is a thug administration. Its not interested in hearing explanations. They could explain all they want well within the deadline and the EPA will still shut them down. Thats what the EPA, and by extension the Obama administration, really wants.
How about some brass balls...why don’t the refineries shut down and see where that puts the EPA
Back in Clintoon’s first term, a bunch of lads from Koch Refining damned near went to prison over an EPA permit issue.
EPA is not Constitutional, like a lot of other things this sorry excuse of a government has passed over the years.
Think Obamacare which now has been found UNconstitutional in Virgina. YES!!!!
Remember the movie with Jessica Lang? “NO SALE”.
Time to stop complying with the unelected, elite ruling class who sit as tyrants in positions created to bypass representative government.
I mean how do you have flexible laws? You comply to a standard or don't. You may be given temporary waivers as you show proof of coming to compliance with a plan, but this sounds askew.
It’ll put gas @ $5.00 a gallon, which was what Al Gore ran on in 2004. Half the folks in this country didn’t seem to mind then?????????
We need to castrate the EPA and defund it.
I think that Texas, et. al., should just ignore the EPA. What are they going to do, invade Texas? The Texas national guard could have ownership of the nukes at Carlswell AFB in about 3 hours. Plus, there’s truly a rifle behind every blade of grass and every stone. And there’s a lot of grass and stones in Texas.
The "Flexible" term is made up by the media. The dispute is the emissions should be an overall refinery total permit rather than a permit per individual exhaust stack in the refinery.
When it is overall, emission savings are done more efficiently by tackling the ones that have the most to reduce per dollar invested.
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