Obama Poised to Inflict Draconian, Bizarre EPA 'Green' Regs if We're Dumb Enough to Re-Elect Him

Reaganite Republican ^ | October 30, 2012 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

If we've learned anything about the current POTUS, it's that he's incredibly stubborn, displays an unsettling tendency towards zealotry and is unable/unwilling to learn from past mistakes. Since -like most libs- he's so self-assured of the Left's intellectual superiority, failures couldn't possibly be his fault- Barry's just doing what his wisers -i.e. Uncle Frank and 'Marxist professors'- taught him. Who cares about historical precedent, a void of logic/proof, or consistently lackluster results when you already know you're right? It's so easy.

Undeterred by myriad 'green' debacles -from Solyndra to Chevy Volts- Obama and his out-there EPA will continue to press-ahead. Some select quotes re. his extreme, legislature-skirting environmental agenda:

Obama: 

'Under my plan, electricity rates would... necessarily skyrocket'

' ...we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else’s out there.'

'So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.

It’s just that (cap-n-trade) will bankrupt them.'

Energy Secretary Steven Chu:

'Somehow,' Chu said, 'we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.' 

Anybody not expecting an even more radical lurch to the left in an Obama 2nd term (Heaven forbid) hasn't been paying enough attention, because his response to failure, voter disapproval, or being proven factually incorrect tends to be a single-finger salute and diversion of blame while doubling-down on standard far-Left policies: political calculation is the only thing that prevents this one from doing whatever-he-damn-well-pleases every day.

The news that Obama has a whole new slew of unwanted, unneeded  and utterly misguided 'green' agenda regulations he's prevented his politicized, radicalized EPA from implementing just yet should come as a surprise to no-one: if he somehow manages to cling to power, they'll be inflicted on us pronto, as will the resultant jobs massacre... here's what's slated for just next year:

• Greenhouse gas rules that will 'virtually eliminate coal as a fuel option for future electric power generation' and inflict new permitting costs on more than 37,000 farms.

• New ozone standards that would cost $90 billion/yr

• Regulations on hydraulic fracturing that will have 'serious impacts on domestic energy production.'

• Expansion of federal control 'over virtually every body of water in the United States, no matter how small.'

• Storm water regulations that could include 'mandates on cities to change existing buildings, storm water sewers, and streets.' 

• Reductions in the sulfur content in gasoline that could boost prices by 9 cents a gallon.

• Clean Water Act rules that 'could require expensive new construction at power plants to lower fish deaths.' Other regulations would affect coal ash, farm dust, oil and gasoline spill prevention, and more.

Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) last week presented a 14-page report on Obama's agenda re. a wide range of environmental-economic issues including new EPA regulation on power plant emissions and hydraulic fracturing. In it, he says that just pending regulations on greenhouse gases alone would cost American employers $300 - $400 BILLION annually, not to mention a significant price increase for gasoline and home heating...

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American Thinker   FoxNews   Baloo   HotAir   

The Heritage Foundation   The American Interest   h/t Speedunque

[Reaganite Republican]

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[scooby321]

I wonder where these fools are going to go after January?

[who knows what evil?]

K Street.

[Reaganite Republican]

Back where they came from Scoob, some classroom somewhere

As for Obama himself, I’m pulling for permanent exile, ala Napoleon

[MayflowerMadam]

All of that is bad. But... if Hussein is re-elected I’m much more afraid of what kind of deals he’ll cut with Putin, etc., when he “has more flexibility”.

[paint_your_wagon]

When Obama goes, all of his “work” needs to go with him. I’m thinking along the lines of what is written about the pharaoh Akhenaten:

From Wikipedia,

Finally, Akhenaten, Neferneferuaten, Smenkhkare, Tutankhamun, and Ay were excised from the official lists of Pharaohs...This is thought to be part of an attempt by Horemheb to delete all trace of Atenism and the pharaohs associated with it from the historical record. Akhenaten’s name never appeared on any of the king lists compiled by later Pharaohs and it was not until the late 19th century that his identity was re-discovered and the surviving traces of his reign were unearthed by archaeologists.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Reaganite Republican.

[Reaganite Republican]

And to you as well, Sunken

[driftdiver]

The first problem is that those types of changes can be implemented through regulations and without Congressional oversight.

[cripplecreek]

I can't help but wonder if the GOP doesn't intentionally like to keep these issues hanging over our heads. My congressman introduced H.R.750 - Defending America's Affordable Energy and Jobs Act back in February of 2011 and it hasn't even made it to committee yet despite having over 100 co sponsors.

H.R.750 - Defending America's Affordable Energy and Jobs Act To preempt regulation of, action relating to, or consideration of greenhouse gases under Federal and common law on enactment of a Federal policy to mitigate climate change.

[DuncanWaring]

If we've learned anything about the current POTUS, it's that he's incredibly stubborn, displays an unsettling tendency towards zealotry and is unable/unwilling to learn from past mistakes.

Once you realize his goal is the enslavement of the world, the destruction of Western Civilization in general and the US in particular, everything The Won does makes perfect sense.

[chopperman]

Those regs are still coming, win or lose.