Obama to regulate carbon from power plants

AFP on Yahoo ^ | 12/23/10 | AFP

[TheThinker]

That is NOT a paper plant, but I am am fairly certain the exhaust pipe is a muffler from an Earth Mover or other large diesel.

You're right, I can see the little metal flap on top of the exhaust pipe that pops up when accelerating.

[DollyCali]

Merry Christmas to you & all on ping list.

Thank you for the faithful sharing of articles.

Blessings & love to you & yours

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx ! And a very Merry Christmas to you, DollyCali.

[screaminsunshine]

EPA is not about the environment. It should be eliminated. Along with OSHA and all the rest.

[screaminsunshine]

If the House lets him get away with it all our efforts have been in vain. If they do we should forget about it and concentrate on State Governments. We need 34 to call out and Impeach the whole Scam. I am hoping we got the House back in American hands again. Next month we will know.

[Vaquero]

It must be nice to be King. EPA needs to go. They are a waste of time and especially.....energy.

“Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to RULE from day one” Valerie Jarret co-chair of the Messiah's transition team(early jan 09).

Merry Christmas

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

LOL. I like it.

It is voracious. Disruptive. Terrifying. Self-absorbed. Destructive. Yes, that Obamasoros would be an excellent mascot.

[Jim Noble]

Unelected, appointed officials , answerable to no one

Wrong.

Congress could dissolve the EPA by repealing its enabling legislation.

Don't hold your breath.

Blaming unelected officials is playing Congress' shell game.

Congress has all the powers necessary to restore Constitutional government, and the People have all the power to make them do it.

[magellan]

This 2009 Time article has the same picture, and says it is a "Finnish factory".

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1929071_1929070_1945639,00.html

[goodnesswins]

GREAT research!!!

[politicianslie]

Anyone still think Obama doesn’t need to be physically removed from office?

It was obvious before the idiotic SOB even got in office it was going to come to this

Washington DC needs to be completed cleaned out.

Leave Jim DeMint, he get's it. Hang McCaine, Lyndsey Graham and other RINOS along with the Democrat traitos.

And make no mistake, these people have committed treason.

[John S Mosby]

High as hell. Look at the buzz in those big pupiled eyes. This guy is a drug addict, on top of everything else. So who supplies him? And if so, does the Secret Service look the other way or condone what is clearly illegal? Praetorians that they are, even so. Caligula.

[John S Mosby]

Exactly- the House can de-fund the EPA

[abbyg55]

How far do they have to push the envelope before we stop complaining and say enough is enough?

[Wildbill22]

Well if as Obama predicted, “...energy costs would necessarily skyrocket..” I see a point in time that skyrocketing electricity and heating costs, combined with the skyrocketing gasoline prices, rising unemployment and foundering economy that Bam Bam and the wookie are not even going to make it past the primaries for 2012, if not impeachment in the mean time.

I am inclined to defund the EPA and stop it, but then again do we want to win the ideological war or just this battle?

Maybe the ‘moderates’ that elected this Marxist need to have their nose rubbed in the mistake they have made.

Defunding the EPA is a good idea, but Possibly more important is that the extreme left needs to be De-legitimized, and all we really have to do is to stay clear of their ideological collapse, but we should also give thought to giving it a nudge in that direction.

Call me an optimist, but I have faith that the American people will have had enough. Soon. Obama is showing his true colors, and it is Red.

[GlockThe Vote]

I don’t have faith the way you do. People in general are dumb as rocks and won’t make the connection. They will blame the gop.

[Wildbill22]

Nonsense. Clinton got it, “It’s the economy stupid” says to me they do get it, but Bam Bam just has so little experience or sense of history that he can’t figure out how to make it happen or that his progressive Marxist agenda is antithetical to what we, and even he, wants.

Eventually even the stupidest American will vote their pocketbook. Maybe in this case, no pain no gain.

[NormsRevenge]

How far do they have to push the envelope before we stop complaining and say enough is enough?

..

Good question. You can only stuff so many folks in a gubamint subsidized bus or train .. or on bicycles.

[Pikachu_Dad]

That looks like STEAM to me, not SMOKE.

Are you fussing about water vapor now?

[dynoman]

That could be water vapor just like out of the exhaust pipe of a car. In the right lighting it can look pure white, or dark like in that picture. A lot of SOx and NOx control systems use water based chemical solutions sprayed in the flue gas making the water vapor plume even more dense in the right weather conditions.

But to the point of the thread, if Americans think their electric rates have gone up enough already get prepared for at least another 50%-100% increase if CO2 control becomes law. It's an investment that will produce nothing - much like spraying gasoline outside an engine and wondering why the power doesn't increase. The government is very good at spraying money outside the capitalistic (economic) engine where it produces absolutely nothing. If we citizens continue to let our government do that the economic engine will grind to a halt. Not much hope that won't happen because most people don't have any idea or rational comprehension how a capitalistic economic engine runs - it isn't taught in school. Basically if you take a commodity like electricity and make it cost more (through regulating SOx NOx mercury etc) with no tangible return for the investment, it's a drag on the economic engine, it decreases its efficiency and if it's allowed to continue it will kill it.