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EPA Gets Serious about CO2 Crackdown
A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative ^ | 12 December 2009 | John Semmens

Posted on 12/12/2009 10:47:39 AM PST by John Semmens

Tired of waiting for Congress to pass the “Cap-and-Trade” bill, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will initiate its own measures to control carbon dioxide emissions. The thrust of the EPA’s approach will be to determine a carbon emissions “budget” for every individual household and assess fines and penalties for those whose emissions exceed an allowable amount.

EPA administrator Lisa Jackson acknowledged that this approach would be more costly than a cap and trade system, but defended it as “leverage to induce Congress to take action. Carbon dioxide is the most dangerous pollutant because there are so many sources of emission. It is imperative that we take action to cut it.”

Jackson said the “budgets” for each individual will be set using the model for how the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assesses income taxes. “Everyone who now fills out a tax return will be required to also fill out an annual ‘declaration of estimated emissions’ form,” Jackson explained. “There will be an instruction booklet—like the one the IRS mails to taxpayers—that emissions filers can use to help them complete the form.”

The types of information required on the form will include number of persons in the household and their weights, number and type of motor vehicles owned, miles driven, and frequency of miscellaneous use of combustibles like gasoline-powered lawn mowers and backyard grills.

“Those who try to cheat by underreporting their emissions will be subject to audits,” Jackson reminded. “There will also be neighborhood spot checks, as well as a system to reward those who turn in cheating neighbors. Not incidentally, the surveillance system will open up job opportunities and help fight the recession.”

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TOPICS: Government; Humor; Politics; Weather
KEYWORDS: bigbrother; climatechange; environment; epa; globalwarming; nannystate; satire
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1 posted on 12/12/2009 10:47:39 AM PST by John Semmens
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Jackson said the “budgets” for each individual will be set using the model for how the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assesses income taxes. “Everyone who now fills out a tax return will be required to also fill out an annual ‘declaration of estimated emissions’ form,” Jackson explained. “There will be an instruction booklet—like the one the IRS mails to taxpayers—that emissions filers can use to help them complete the form.”

OMG, DO NOT give these people any ideas. What we regard as satire will end up being the law of the land under liberals.

2 posted on 12/12/2009 10:49:29 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Maureen Dowd is right. I DON'T like our President's color. He's a Red.)
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In celebration of this new edict, I shall, gleefully and exuberantly, fart an extra two ‘toot’s to ‘global warming’....ALL HAIL THE CO2 MONARCHY!!!!!!


3 posted on 12/12/2009 10:49:56 AM PST by Gaffer
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4 posted on 12/12/2009 10:50:21 AM PST by John Semmens
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John, thanks for the ping, but you’re not fooling me this time!


5 posted on 12/12/2009 10:52:00 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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I can just see it now. These people will make the East German Stazi look tame.


6 posted on 12/12/2009 10:54:54 AM PST by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: John Semmens; Hardastarboard; Gaffer

Recently, MIT researchers prophesied weak ocean mitigation of carbon dioxide (CO2), which is claimed to be the major source of global warming. However, atmospheric CO2 represents less than one particle for 10,000, making finding Waldo in a puzzle more likely. Water vapor that CO2 bonds with (think of carbonated water) is 25 times more plentiful in the atmosphere, and 2.5 million times more plentiful in oceans. When a single hurricane uses enough energy to power Japan for a year, how can weather have minimal influence on CO2 reduction, which also has minimal atmospheric presence? Few scientists have any remianing credibility.


7 posted on 12/12/2009 10:56:42 AM PST by Retain Mike
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You’d think the Republicans would be raising hell about this, but I won’t hold my breath. :)


8 posted on 12/12/2009 10:57:07 AM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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“Carbon dioxide is the most dangerous pollutant because there are so many sources of emission.”

Humans.


9 posted on 12/12/2009 11:00:46 AM PST by silverleaf (More folks being invited to the White House for Holiday parties than are being sent to Afghanistan)
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To: Hardastarboard

this is satire, right?


10 posted on 12/12/2009 11:01:11 AM PST by silverleaf (More folks being invited to the White House for Holiday parties than are being sent to Afghanistan)
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I know this suppose to be a satire but there are serious proposals directly analgous to what you have written. Someone in power in the UK propoed a CO2 “debit card” that would be swipped everytime you purchased petro or did some other activity that emitted CO2. If you ran out of CO2 credits you would be automatically forced to buy more.


11 posted on 12/12/2009 11:03:54 AM PST by C19fan
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Will this plan include green Block Captains?


12 posted on 12/12/2009 11:10:59 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Don't eat your dog; eat obnoxious, liberal humans to save the planet!)
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Funny, but I can easily see them doing it!!


13 posted on 12/12/2009 11:11:28 AM PST by swatbuznik
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Yep, satire that time may turn into historical fact.

School kids! Did dad boff mom more than once last week? Win a free basketball if dad's IRS exertion log fails to match his activities.

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..........Be aware use of basketball may violate your daily CO2 cap, which is punishable by law.

14 posted on 12/12/2009 11:12:23 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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To: theDentist
I won’t hold my breath. :)

Funny! I don't have to: COPD has my lung capacity down to 60% of normal, thus my exhalations contain 40% less CO2 than average for my age/size. I should get some sort of EPA credit for that.

15 posted on 12/12/2009 11:22:12 AM PST by Bernard Marx ("Civilizations die by suicide, not from murder" Toynbee)
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To: John Semmens

We should make it a crime to open any carbonated beverage and release all of that CO2. We also need to declare war on yeast and try and exterminate them since they produce CO2, bring back prohibition and save the planet.


16 posted on 12/12/2009 11:23:30 AM PST by Libertarianize the GOP (Make all taxes truly voluntary)
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Those who try to cheat by underreporting their emissions will be subject to audits,” Jackson reminded. “There will also be neighborhood spot checks, as well as a system to reward those who turn in cheating neighbors. Not incidentally, the surveillance system will open up job opportunities and help fight the recession.”

Yesterday I was reading the federal jobs website and there are a bunch of new positions advertised, doing an "energy use census" nationwide in the Spring.

This may not be satire after all.

17 posted on 12/12/2009 11:27:49 AM PST by Red Boots
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They will need to change their name from EPA to EGA.

Environmental Gestapo Agency.

The arrogance and thuggery of this administration is really amazing, isn't it?

18 posted on 12/12/2009 11:47:12 AM PST by smokingfrog (I'm from TEXAS -- what country are YOU from?)
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To: Libertarianize the GOP
Global warming caused by Coca Cola.
You may have something there....


19 posted on 12/12/2009 11:56:18 AM PST by smokingfrog (I'm from TEXAS -- what country are YOU from?)
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To: John Semmens
Tyrants.

Enjoy your chains, America.

20 posted on 12/12/2009 12:15:52 PM PST by skeeter
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