Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 03/28/2011 4:48:21 PM PDT by Kaslin
Nearly two years after the Great Recession officially ended, unemployment still stands at a troubling 8.9 percent, economic growth remains sluggish, gas prices are high and rising, consumer sentiment is falling. And none of it is expected to get much better any time soon.
You'd think that in this context politicians — particularly those hoping to keep their jobs after 2012 — would be doing everything they can to kick away burdensome rules and regulations that would threaten growth and jobs. A good place to start would be blocking the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
By all accounts, letting EPA control emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases said to contribute to global warming would amount to, as Time magazine put it, "the most far-reaching environmental regulatory scheme in American history."
And, despite the pleadings of environmentalists, there's little question that these rules will push economic growth down and energy costs up.
The American Council for Capital Formation puts the cost of EPA's greenhouse gas rules at 46,000 to 1.4 million lost jobs and $25 billion to $75 billion in lost capital investment by 2014, along with a $500 billion reduction in GDP by 2030, all while boosting gasoline and electricity costs by 50%.
Which is no doubt why just about everyone — from Republicans to Democrats to EPA itself — is busy trying to delay the agency's greenhouse gas regulatory regime from getting started.
On March 1, EPA announced that it's putting off greenhouse gas reporting rules scheduled to kick in at the end of this month until later this summer. Earlier in the year, the agency said it would delay implementing greenhouse gas rules for biomass facilities for three years.
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“blocking the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions”
They should do more than that disband the EPA. They are crushing ordinary people under foot all over America. They are a BAD AGENCY.
If these concerns were true before why aren't they true now?
Oh, I understand now - its was NEVER about environmental issues but about controlling us!
Thanks Kaslin.
“They are a BAD AGENCY.”
Depends on how you look at it. If you’re a NWO globalist they’re perfect.
Employment Prevention Agency
There are legitimate reasons for having an EPA, just no this one. Scrap it, review all rules, regulations and programs, and pick out the best and most pragmatic.
Deep six the others along with the marxists involved with it.
Defund the EPA....
what a curse the EPA has puton the country!
And to anyone with half a clue about temperature metrology, the idea that we can even measure worldwide average temperature to a tenth of a degree C, let alone a few thousandths, is just the height of absurdity. I don’t know how these so-called “scientists” look themselves in the mirror. There is no way in hell their theories can be tested against the real world.
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