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EPA gives final "no" to Texas refinery permits
Scientific American ^ | 07/07/2010 | By Erwin Seba

Posted on 07/12/2010 5:03:16 PM PDT by EBH

Leading U.S. independent refiner Valero Energy Corp faulted the decision. San Antonio-based Valero has six Texas refineries, the most owned by a single company. The plants employ 2,700 people.

"When the flex permit program was rolled out in 1994, EPA and environmental groups applauded it, and EPA approval seemed implicit," said Valero spokesman Bill Day in a statement. "Now, 16 years later, EPA is reversing course, and our facilities are caught in the middle, creating significant uncertainty at a time when our economy can least afford it."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: agenda; bhoenergy; bhoepa; capandtax; capandtrade; energy; epa; fascist; obama; obamanomics; obamasfault; obamaswarontheusa; oil; oilspill; palin; refineries; refining; teaparty; texas; valero
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To: EBH

Insanity.


21 posted on 07/12/2010 5:35:42 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (No matter who you think you are, God retains His pardon and veto powers.)
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To: EBH
Time to take the EPA to court to demonstrate arbitrary and untimely rule changes.
22 posted on 07/12/2010 5:35:47 PM PDT by G Larry (Democrats: expediting the Destruction of America, before they lose power...)
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To: EBH
These executive should tell the communists at the EPA to go to hell and then see what they will do to enforce it.

Its high time for civil disobedience against the marxists.

23 posted on 07/12/2010 5:36:23 PM PDT by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: EBH

It’s sickening to watch. These people are shutting down America any way they can. Killing the greatest nation on the planet for what? Some retarded green dream.


24 posted on 07/12/2010 5:37:53 PM PDT by vpintheak (Love of God, Family and Country has made me an extremist.)
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To: givemELL
As this move builds on the EPA’s decision to regulate CO2 without Congressional input,...

So this industry/economy killing move is about CO2?

Greenhouse theory is pure bunkum.

No Smoking Hot Spot (The Australian)

The Hidden Flaw in Greenhouse Theory

Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics

Harvard astrophysicist dismisses AGW theory, challenges peers to 'take back climate science'

It Is Impossible For A 100 ppm Increase In Atmospheric CO2 Concentration To Cause Global Warming

Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud

25 posted on 07/12/2010 5:39:55 PM PDT by TigersEye (Greenhouse Theory is false. Totally debunked. "GH gases" is a non-sequitur.)
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To: EBH

This is the difference between a politicized economy and rule of law. Rule of law, you may or may not like the rules but everyone knows what they are, they know what they will be tomorrow, and they know how the courts are going to rule before you ever go to court. So you just get on with it. You make your plans accordingly and go.

In a politicized economy, you don’t know what they rules will be tomorrow and you don’t know how the courts will rule. So you have to have friends in high places. For self-defense you have to have contacts, you have to have people in office who will take your calls, you have to be able to call in favors when you need them. You have to be able to shape the rules as they come down, purely in self defense.

This is oligarchy. Politicized economies always produce oligarchy. The businesses who can navigate and control the politics prosper. The others keep their heads down, try and move their money to safe havens, and hope for better days.


26 posted on 07/12/2010 5:40:07 PM PDT by marron
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To: EBH
You commie Yankee motherf******.

World of hurt reserved for y'all.

And not the least of which is your own idiot cities starving, baking, and freezing to death.

Change you can be extinct to.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

27 posted on 07/12/2010 5:44:55 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: erman

No Kidding, Chet is quite the scumbag. I was glad when they re-distrcited and I got Carter instead of this O-hole.


28 posted on 07/12/2010 5:46:02 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: EBH

bump


29 posted on 07/12/2010 5:52:17 PM PDT by VOA
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To: buwaya

Yeah here are a couple more uncertainties...

I think it is EPA night for me...LOL.


30 posted on 07/12/2010 5:52:20 PM PDT by EBH (Our First Right...."it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,")
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To: EBH

Texas should just write back the EPA and say, “Dear EPA—kiss our asses...”


31 posted on 07/12/2010 5:53:43 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: Rome2000
These executives ...

The state of Texas should step in and tell the EPA to go F___ itself.

32 posted on 07/12/2010 6:01:44 PM PDT by Magnum44 (Terrorism is a disease, precise application of superior firepower is the cure)
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To: EBH

Gee....how long do ya think New York, DC , LA and Chicago would run if Texas closed its refineries..


33 posted on 07/12/2010 6:06:55 PM PDT by mo
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To: mo

They can’t use Texas gasoline.


34 posted on 07/12/2010 6:09:40 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: EBH
Do it anyway!

Force him to call out the NG or SEIU.

SURELY you have a few roughnecks that would just LOVE to get a peice of gummint force

35 posted on 07/12/2010 6:11:24 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Tarpon
Shutting America down, by oppressive suffocating federal regulation. Just like what Kagan described in her paper “presidential regulation”.

Sums it up - Shutting America down -The agenda is more than oil.

EPA Agrees to Review Air Pollution Rules for 28 Industries

U.S. EPA has agreed to examine its air pollution rules for 28 industry sectors within the next eight years, setting the stage for review of the emissions control technologies used by large sectors including the paper, furniture and aerospace industries...

...Among other sectors that would face review are aluminum production, cement manufacturing, lead smelting, pesticide manufacturing, pharmaceuticals production and shipbuilding...

36 posted on 07/12/2010 6:17:31 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: EBH

Treason.....


37 posted on 07/12/2010 6:17:39 PM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: marron

“This is oligarchy. Politicized economies always produce oligarchy...”

FWIW...progressive income tax always results in Oligarchy as well...its the mechanism by which the wealthy induce the sale and purchase of a government.


38 posted on 07/12/2010 6:20:50 PM PDT by mo
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To: EBH

Wow ... 27% of US refining capacity just got thrown into economic limbo because Zero changed the rules. This means 27% of gasoline and chemicals supply will be vulnerable to the whims of gov zombies. Enviro’s win again ...


39 posted on 07/12/2010 6:22:42 PM PDT by Nobel_1 (bring on the Patriots!)
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To: Nobel_1; blam
27% of US refining capacity

I don't think anyone here quite realizes what the Texas Take Over means. Add on moratoriums...

It is all just enough to push us over the edge.

40 posted on 07/12/2010 6:30:16 PM PDT by EBH (Our First Right...."it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,")
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