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Government Shutdown to Delay EPA $1 Gallon Gas Price Hike
FrontPage Mag ^ | 10/01/2013 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 10/01/2013 10:14:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

As the death toll for Government Shutdown Apocalypse 2013 continues to grow, it appears that the EPA’s plans to make it even more expensive for Americans to drive a car were “shut down” by the government shutdown.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will take one of the biggest hits of any federal agency if the government shuts down this week, operating with under 7 percent of its employees, according to guidance issued by the agency.

Just think of how much less the EPA will be able to do with only 7 percent of its employees. That EPA SWAT Team may have to sit out the week. Someone else will have to send $700,000 to Thailand’s pig farmers. And someone else will have to hike fuel prices.

Among those furloughed would be most workers at the Office of Air and Radiation, which is in charge of writing and implementing most of the EPA’s major air pollution rules. The clock would also stop, for now, on the EPA’s eagerly-awaited proposal on renewable fuel volume standards for 2014.

Who exactly is eagerly awaiting this proposal? Drivers who can’t wait to pay a buck more for gas.

Gas prices will increase about $1 per gallon by 2015 and take a $550 billion bite out of Americans’ take-home pay when the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) increases the ethanol mandate past the 10 percent “blend wall.”

Sadly the evil government shutdown may delay the environmentalist push for Electric Poverty in America

“People are not going to be able to be working on these rules at home,” said Dina Kruger, an environmental regulation consultant and former climate change director at the EPA, who worked at the agency when the government shut down in 1996.

Sure.

EPA employees won’t write arbitrary rules that steal money out of the pockets of hardworking Americans unless the Americans pay them first.

“Permitting does not qualify (as essential), so people should expect delays in permit processing and other licensing and approval processes,” said Scott Fulton, former EPA general counsel until January this year and an attorney at Beveridge and Diamond.

“This is a decidedly bad thing for the country. Everybody pays, including the regulated community.”

Gulag employees furloughed. Gulag prisoners waiting for meals hit hardest. There is a solution though. Free the prisoners.


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1 posted on 10/01/2013 10:14:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s about time that Diesel becomes cheaper than gas again.


2 posted on 10/01/2013 10:15:46 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: SeekAndFind

Shut down the entire EPA, and do us all a favor.


3 posted on 10/01/2013 10:16:21 AM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: SeekAndFind

Better increase licensing taxes on non-”fossil fuel” cars then since they aren’t “paying their fare share” of road costs.


4 posted on 10/01/2013 10:16:44 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hope they are all furloughed.


5 posted on 10/01/2013 10:19:07 AM PDT by Doc Hunter
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To: Doc Hunter

F the EPA.


6 posted on 10/01/2013 10:20:53 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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7 posted on 10/01/2013 10:21:45 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: SeekAndFind

Sweet!


8 posted on 10/01/2013 10:23:20 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
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To: Venturer

the longer they’re not “working”, the better off we’ll be.


9 posted on 10/01/2013 10:23:29 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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10 posted on 10/01/2013 10:25:29 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: noprogs
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11 posted on 10/01/2013 10:31:00 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Power disintegrates when people withdraw their obedience and support)
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To: SeekAndFind

An interesting alternative for achieving Liberty: just shut it down and keep it shut down. Beats secession.

I think that’s the real reason why dear leader, dingy hairy, the LSM and the rest of the kakistocrats have been having such a meltdown over the shutdownapocalypse: not because of what it would do, but because of their that people would decide that they liked it more this way.


12 posted on 10/01/2013 10:34:20 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Power disintegrates when people withdraw their obedience and support)
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Gas prices will increase about $1 per gallon by 2015 and take a $550 billion bite out of Americans’ take-home pay when the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) increases the ethanol mandate past the 10 percent “blend wall

all this because of the global warming hoax and the fact that the government, the EPA and obama are tyrannical , unaccountable idiots

13 posted on 10/01/2013 10:37:56 AM PDT by rurgan (give laws an expiration date:so the congress has to review every 4 years to see if needed)
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To: SeekAndFind

What a shame. And I was so looking forward to the pain and suffering of ordinary Americansas the economy slows. Next they’ll be failing to collect delinquent taxes, and then what will we all do?/sarc


14 posted on 10/01/2013 10:38:41 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: SeekAndFind

REMEMBER....THIS IS OBAMA’S EPA..

we need a president who will trash this EPA and drill here and drill now...


15 posted on 10/01/2013 10:42:42 AM PDT by haircutter
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s an agency which should be permanently cut back to 7% of its current employees, and about 5% of its current budget.


16 posted on 10/01/2013 10:46:23 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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To: SeekAndFind

I didn’t even know this was coming. If there are not pitchforks and tar in the streets if this happens, I give up.


17 posted on 10/01/2013 10:48:37 AM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Most of your gas prices per gallon are taxes for the government.


18 posted on 10/01/2013 10:49:38 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is a real good news story about unintended consequences. Perhaps what we should be doing is sending a whole lot of THANK YOU’s to the House and Senate for the shut down?


19 posted on 10/01/2013 10:54:17 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Power disintegrates when people withdraw their obedience and support)
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How about fundamentally transforming America by keeping the government shut down?

Now that's Change we can Believe in!

20 posted on 10/01/2013 10:55:03 AM PDT by frogjerk (We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
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