Posted on 07/20/2011 5:27:28 PM PDT by jazusamo
Green agency uses phony death statistics to justify job-killing rules
The House will soon vote to (slightly) rein in the Obama Environmental Protection Agency. But this much-needed baby step by Congress will only happen if Republicans have the knowledge and muster the courage to withstand a final bare-knuckles assault by EPA’s enviro allies.
The House Appropriations Committee passed last week the fiscal 2012 EPA budget that would cut the agency’s budget by $1.7 billion - 18 percent - and delay for one year several of its new and/or planned regulatory programs targeting coal-fired electric utilities. It’s hardly landmark legislation but it’s a start.
Troubled by the agency’s high-cost-for-imaginary benefit programs covering emissions of greenhouse gases, mercury, sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxides, the committee’s bill calls for a timeout on the EPA’s rules pending a study of their impacts.
But the EPA and its allies aren’t taking such reasonableness lying down. Leading their pushback is the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), which is making utility giant American Electric Power (AEP) the whipping boy example for Republicans and businesses that dare question - let alone rise against - EPA oppression.
The EDF is running a billboard and TV ad campaign accusing AEP and, by extension, anyone else that opposes EPA overregulation, of pushing a “dirty air bill” that will kill 17,000 people per year in the name of “polluter profits.”
The TV ad for this theme features a young girl in a hospital bed supposedly having an asthma attack. She’s wearing a nebulizer face mask and chest compression device that is rhythmically but disturbingly squeezing the child, giving the appearance that she is in severe respiratory distress, by implication from air pollution.
But like the EPA’s 17,000-lives-saved statistical fabrication, the ad is a fake.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
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"Many of the things advocated by environmental extremists, for example, are things that most of us might think of as good things. But, in politics, they become Good Things whose repercussions and costs are brushed aside as unworthy considerations."
The entire current administration that has posted all these idiots in control of the vast majority of government agencies, such as the EPA, is exclusively a den full of doom and gloom soothsayers and liars.
The EPA needs to be shut down now, among other agencies such as the NLRB, Dept. of Education, etc.
This entire current administration needs to be ousted now.
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AMEN! I couldn’t agree more.
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Thanks jazusamo!!
I can think of a pair right now, a young couple shocked when I snorted at the fake statistics on second-hand smoke. They were horrified! They really believed (don't know if they do now -- they're older!) all that crap. And as such, it made them anxious, and you know, life is anxious enough without having pretend crap tossed in there to herd sheep.
I asked them ... how is it that there are any Japanese people left on earth???? They smoke like coal plants over there. Um ... good thing no one told the millions of strapping babes born to WWII brides, 'cause a lot of those moms were second-hand smokers.
How in the hell is it that pretty much everyboyd around me when I was a kid, came out pretty much fine after hundreds of hours in smoke-filled movie theaters? Lots of people smoked at the "show." People smoked in restaurants and coffee shops; it was normal. Remember flying non-stop for 8 hours on a transatlantic flight in the '70s? People smoked the whole time. It was annoying and inconsiderate, but hey ... people lived.
Now you have to go into a little glassed-in public exhibition cage like you're an animal in the zoo or something, if you want to choke a weed at LAX! {^ ) It's bizarre! Fifth Element humor.
"Second-hand smoke." Yeah. Sure. There's people who'll buy anything.
I agree, the second hand smoke thing is ridiculous. Like you say, it’s inconsiderate and has been for some time but when I was a kid smoking was accepted by most everyone, even if they didn’t smoke.
In the early fifties the “I Love Lucy” show had Phillip Morris cigs for a sponsor, I believe Lucy and Desi were even in some of the commercials.
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