Posted on 02/18/2022 8:09:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
FERC could block the construction and operation of interstate natural gas pipelines, storage facilities and liquefied natural gas terminals if it finds that their climate damages outweigh their benefits.And we all know that EVERY such project will have damages exceeding benefits. This makes saying "NO!" so easy.
So this decision is just as much another lawless extension of regulatory power as Biden's vaccine mandate.
The left is slowly gaining control of every regulatory body in the United States to destroy our economy and eliminate our liberties.
There is no statutory authority for these requirements, so hopefully the courts will flush this nonsense into the legal sewer in which it belongs.
For those of you that wonder why we have offshored manufacturing, I give you a prime example....
I give you the feds
This will provide a basis for denying every new energy project that comes along. It’s what the Democrats want, force everyone other than the elite on to public transportation and in to public housing.
yep, Dementia joe working like the devil to bring down fuel prices, except that keeping folks from freezing in the dark isn’t a big priority ...
Time to eliminate about 90% of the federal workfarce.
It is not enough to them for many people to die. Now they must die in the cold and dark.
On of the reasons for short terms was to effectively give the "court of public opinion," that's people like you and me, the power to effectively "impeach and remove" bad-apple representatives from the system.
One problem with that constitutional check now is this. The corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress has learned how to unconstitutionally front-end its regulatory responsibilities by establishing constitutionally undefined, non-elected, so-called federal regulatory agencies that lawmakers not only hide behind to keep their voting records clean, particularly in an election year, but in many cases regulators are actually basing their decisions on stolen state powers imo.
"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.
In this case concerning politically correct global warming policy, it's actually up to the threshold of pain of a state's taxpayers as to how much unaccountable state spending they will tolerate the alleged-election stealing, elite desperate Democrats running their state to fill their pockets with.
In fact, Justice Louis Brandeis had introduced his "laboratories of democracy" to describe the 10th Amendment-protected powers of the individual states to conduct socioeconomic experiments to find remedies that actually work, ultimately depending on what the legal majority citizen voters of a state want.
"[...] a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." —Justice Louis Brandeis, Laboratories of Democracy.
The problem now is that, as a consequence of state revenues regularly being stolen by Congress by means of unconstitutional federal taxes imo, taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, the states have to regularly beg for so-called "federal" funding, actual stolen state revenues, in order to make ends meet.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The bottom line is that patriots need to elect new federal and state lawmakers who will put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes so that the states, not the feds, can serve the people as the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had intended.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
Somebody please ‘splain to me how a pipe buried in the earth can effect the climate.
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