Posted on 06/15/2011 3:26:48 PM PDT by radioone
Let’s face it. Obama doesn’t give a damn about creating jobs. He only cares about fundamentally changing America and destroying its wealth.
American Electric Power announced this week that the latest Obama EPA regulations will cost the company at least 600 jobs and over $6 billion which will be pushed on consumers.
Today, Barack Obama’s horrible EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson lashed out at utility companies for revealing the economic destruction of her department’s policies. She then claimed her administration’s policies will prevent premature deaths… What garbage. The Hill reported:
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson struck back Wednesday at American Electric Power, the powerful utility that recently claimed looming EPA rules will prompt a wave of coal plant closures and cost scores of jobs.
“Misleading at best, scare tactics at worst,” Jackson told reporters Wednesday after testifying at a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on Clean Air Act rules.
AEP — a major coal-burning utility — last week said that EPA rules for air toxics, ozone-forming pollutants and other regulations will prompt closure of five coal-fired power plants and require costly changes at others, create a direct loss of 600 jobs and significantly boost power costs for businesses.
The utility is urging a delay in the compliance periods for the rules.
But Jackson, in her testimony to the committee, cited major benefits from implementation of Clean Air Act rules. She has accused industry lobbyists of peddling in inaccurate “doomsday” scenarios.
She noted, for instance, that new standards for power plant emissions of mercury and other air toxics proposed in March will prevent an estimated 17,000 premature deaths, 120,000 cases of childhood asthma and 850,000 days of missed work due to illness.
These radical leftists are shameless.
Voodoo math. 90% of statistics are made up on the spot. But we can look at the millions of deaths the EPA is responsible for by banning DDT. EPA has killed more people than the Nazis.
We used to be a republic.
Just try to stall and hold out for another 18 months or so AEP and Coal Miners, help is coming...
..she’s big into environmental “justice”
Wow! He can destroy jobs PLUS burden us with unnecessary regulation, all at once!
Send people like Lisa Jackson packing right into a jail cell.
Fewer jobs, major price increases - the dem way...
And this ‘plan’ will dramatically increase the cost of electricity... it’s a threefer.
It’s time to impeach that de facto president...and convict him in the senate. Actually, since he is not Article II, Section 1 qualified...he needs to be arrested and handcuffed and put into prison...solitary confinement for the rest of his miserable life.
If we died in the numbers all the alarmists cited, there would be no human life left.
GO GALT NOW~!!!
But Jackson, in her testimony to the committee, cited major benefits from implementation of Clean Air Act rules. She has accused industry lobbyists of peddling in inaccurate “doomsday” scenarios.
Hmmmm. Looks like another made the LIST. If she was able to look inward, I believe she would be shocked at the accusations that will be aimed at her and the agenda that is designed to kill more jobs and the economy in general if we still have an economy by the time of implementation.
Gentle folk, back in the day, I could hardly believe what I was seeing during the Clinton administration. Now just a few years later, it is even more shocking what passes for reality. Anyone believe that those of us in northern climes are going to stand for rolling blackouts at temperatures below zero?
With the cleanest air on the planet, in the USA, what makes one think they are the arbiters of even cleaner? I might have to move to Wyoming, or buy a truck to haul coal, but one needs to ask what is really important, cleaner air, or life liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
Send people like Lisa Jackson packing right into a jail cell.
It is unfortunate, but there will be a severe shortage of cells.
How many people will die from lack of heat? My electric furnace cost me $400-500/MONTH from December to April for a well-insulated little two bedroom cottage last winter, set at 68 degrees.
[ GO GALT NOW~!!! ]
Kinda hard to go Galt in a Police State, the only way to “Go Galt” today would be to setup a colony on the moon and if the Earth commies got to uppity about it then you cou,ld lob rocks back at them a 15,000 MPH.
Re: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
Of course, these same radicals want to force everyone to use mercury-filled lightbulbs.
In a sane world, it would be everyone at the EPA who would be out of a job.
I’ve looked and looked, and I can’t find ANYTHING resembling an EPA in the enumerated powers granted to the Federal government by the Constitution...
Just sayin’
““Misleading at best, scare tactics at worst,””
Who better to pontificate on job/cost forecasting? The affected corporations or some bureaucratic jackass?
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