EPA Auto Rules: Just the Beginning of Energy Takeover

The Lid/CNS NEWS ^ | 4/2/2010 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

Yesterday, the EPA announced its new regulations on Auto Emissions raising the new MPG standards that were established less than a year ago. Their regulatory authority is based on their declaration under the clean air act, that CO2 is a pollutant. According to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson the new auto regulations are just the start.

Just as the health care bill regulates the way you make personal choices about your body, the EPA will be adding energy consumption taxes to regulate what were once personal and corporate choices about the way energy is consumed. It doesn't matter whether global warming is real or a hoax, the EPA will force you to act if its real with regulations that will essentially be a back door energy tax that will kill jobs, tax every American who turns on a light drives a car or warm their house, drive up the cost of consumer goods and move jobs overseas, as the new regulations will increase the cost of manufacturing products in America.

[lormand]

Fascism in fast mode

[mbynack]

I don’t think the new regulations go far enough. Why make these littel incremental changes? Why not just pass a law saying that all cars have to run on perpetual motion and ecrete non-fat yogert and calorie-free chocolate?

[Vendome]

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[subterfuge]

This is exactly what barama campaigned on so it’s no surprise. BO said energy costs were “going to HAVE to skyrocket” and that’s exactly what is going to happen.

[Jack Hydrazine]

And you thought petroleum and electricity prices were high. You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet!

[Jack Hydrazine]

Here’s Obama talking about creating skyrocketing electricity rates.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GdElL7ytx0

[subterfuge]

Heck. wish I could view that from here.

[apillar]

This is the Obama administration's good cop / bad cop routine. The EPA is acting the part of the bad cop, threatening to shut down entire industries in the name of global warming. In the next few months, the democrats in the congress will play the good cop and offer their "sensible" Cap and Trade system to override the out of control EPA.

Of course cap and trade is what Obama, congressional dems and the EPA all wanted from the beginning but they can use this routine to get what they want and look moderate in the process.