Posted on 06/15/2011 3:26:48 PM PDT by radioone
Lets face it. Obama doesnt 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 Obamas horrible EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson lashed out at utility companies for revealing the economic destruction of her departments policies. She then claimed her administrations 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.
Lisa Jackson is still the same old Fascist Pig she’s always been. Nothing good can come of having that woman in a government job.
And this is a proven fact, how?
And what exactly is a "premature" death anyway? The alphabet soup agencies, AKA our government, love to toss around that phrase along with scary numbers whatever is the current the killer du jour.
IOW “I deny their objective data and offer these subjective statements in rebuttal.”
I can tell you who the EPA policies will kill for sure: Poor, old people & the disabled who have to choose whether to pay the utilities bill or eat!
I work for AEP. This statement has been the talk of the company for a week now. Let me assure you, the statementis neither misleading or scare tactics. It’s a fact!
Got to have a job to miss work due to illness.
what work days? by the time they get done with us there won’t be any.
I honestly think we need one of two things to happen:
.....1) All coal plants shut down on a "national strike" for a week to demonstrate how things would be without them. Then publish the cost of compliance and show there is no real gain from the extra cost. Let the public make a demand to get rid of these regs based on their own cost/benefit analysis at home.
.....or.....
.....2) All coal plants refuse to abide by the new rules in solidarity and keep on with business as usual.
In either case, the federal government would have to either back down or arrest every single person involved. The public would probably learn more from the plant shutdowns since they would feel pain and hardship.
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Yea, loosing the revenue from FIVE power plants is "scare tactics."
How dare that evil power company actually want to make money.
It must be tough living full time in stupid land.
The only deaths that will occur are the old folks dying of frost bite or heat stroke because their power was turned off for nopayment...
and why are there no women in that breadline photo?
Dang!
Did it again.
> > > LOSING < < < as in "The communist agenda is always a loser."
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They have a few that are empty
Where is Congress???
These are the people who, given the chance, would send every Freeper to a labor camp.
Many hard working people will be out on the streets. Sorry, my house can’t take much more.
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