I do. All of the refineries in the country run year around at near full capacity to supply our needs. Even in the best of times a 26% reduction in production would mean the country would come to a standstill.
But they are not shutting them down. AT least not yet...they are just going to harass them for a while. They are going to drive the cost up, slowly over the next few years. People won't even realize what is driving the cost up. Sections of refineries will be shutdown to fit new pollution control devices etc. and they won't be able to restart unless they meet some insane, unscientific regulation standard. Unfortunately they won this round.
Add onto to this the other threads,Wave Of EPA Regulations Could Overshadow New Pollution Rule and EPA Agrees to Review Air Pollution Rules for 28 Industries we've got a heap of energy sector trouble brewing. Under a different administration I might not take a notice or be overly concerned. Traditionally over zealous EPA enforcement has been smacked down by the Regionals, but the Texas action indicates a whole new "attitude." That attitude is supported by an 'activist' administration in power.
An Activist Administration, means all the bureaucracies under their control will have no reasonable amount of restraint. 0bama and his whole cabinet and shadow czar government are activists, which ultimately is worse than being a liberal I think. Activists use the courts against the people, force, create crisis, and violence.
The takeover in Texas was a show of force.
Sierra Club got the court ruling to have the EPA review enforcement on a bunch of MACT rules. Like I said, in normal times the decade review wouldn't cause me to bat an eyelash. These are not normal times.
And this week the EPA introduced the "Transport Rule" in the energy sector.
These new regulations never even saw the congressional floor for appropriate legislative action. Congress years ago, under a different time, granted the EPA this kind of authority. As Matthew Spalding said,
The result is that many of the actual decisions of lawmaking and public policy—decisions previously the constitutional responsibility of elected legislators—are delegated to unaccountable bureaucrats in administrative agencies. While these agencies call their laws “rules,” there is no doubt that they have the full force and effect of law as if they were passed by Congress. Today, when Congress writes legislation, it uses very broad language that essentially turns legislative power over to agencies, which are also given the authority of executing and adjudicating violations of their regulations in particular cases Do we still hold these truths?
We are in a heap of trouble of our own creation. The trouble is so big we can't see the fire for all the smoke.