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Posted on 08/22/2011 4:53:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
Energy: It won't matter which light bulbs we use as the administration's implementation of cross-state pollution rules shuts down coal plants across the country. Where will the jobs be when the lights go out?
It's called the Cross-State Pollution Rule, announced last month, and its implementation over the next 18 months will likely result in the loss of a fifth of the nation's electricity-generating capacity.
The result will be likely power shortages, skyrocketing rates and inevitable brownouts and rolling blackouts.
Based on Bush-era EPA proposals that the federal courts threw out in 2008, this latest example of legislation is designed to usurp state powers to regulate their in-state emissions by making it a federal issue on the grounds pollution crosses state lines.
The rule requires coal companies in 27 states to slash emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide by 73% and 54%, respectively, from 2005 levels by 2014. "Just because wind and weather will carry air pollution away from its source at a local power plant doesn't mean that pollution is no longer that plant's responsibility," says Environmental Protection Agency Chief Lisa Jackson.
The targets are states such as Texas that not only resist federal encroachment on their powers but dare to try to balance environmental quality. The EPA claims huge health gains as its justification, but those claims are in doubt. Poverty and joblessness, which this and other EPA rules will create, carry their own health risks.
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I hate the EPA.
Truly and earnestly.
I’m in the far southeastern corner of Jackson county.
“I’m tempted to build a coal furnace”
Friend of mine has a Corn Furnace for his house and keeps very warm.
Not recommending this brand. Just an example:
http://www.cornheat.com/corn_furnace.html
The problem with wind of course is the it has a ridiculously low capacity factor (below 35%) even in good wind locations and very poor reliability.
Nah I just wanna burn the coal for the hell of it.
Coal bonfires even.
Jeff Duncan is having a “listening” town hall here in Aiken County next week. He will definitely hear from me on this. Loud and clear!
In a war, one of the prime tactics is to cut off the enemy’s fuel supply. Since that is clearly the main objective of the American Left, including the Media, the Democrat party, and the Eco-fascists, they have, in fact, been waging war on this country. They are Traitors of the highest order.
Damn them all.
Or, as Maxine Waters would say, “They can all go straight to Hell.”
There’s also the simple science that tells us that the wind will be minimal at the times of highest demand.
The left is working both ends! CO2 is the exhaust of coal plants, natural gas, diesel, and gasoline engines. Just like Eddy Murphy in “Beverly Hills Cop”, they are stuffing a banana up our tailpipe in order to shutdown the engine!
I can’t believe the comments on this thread.
Grow some balls and “just say NO!”
“Hell no, we are not going to allow this to happen.” the EPA is a criminal organization albeit inefficient like all the federal government.
Lisa Jackson and her CO2 greenhouse gas, global warming garbage is a blatant attempt to jack up energy cost and hand GE and other contributors a quid pro quo.
Shut er down!
The mandates that the EPA has been pushing on us lately are bordering on insanity. I guess that’s what happens when you don’t hire engineers, scientists, or field experts to run an organization, but instead let enviro-lunatics run the show. Start putting up firewood, and hope it isn’t as cold as last winter.
Well, how the #@#$@ are people supposed to charge their electric cars in order to get to work? Oh...never mind.
Isn’t that pinwheel supposed to be mounted on a bicycle? That would kill two birds with one stone!
We will have blackouts for the same reason we do not completely annihilate any enemy we fight. Our political correctness causes us to tie our own hands behind our backs - for no reason in my opinion.
We have natural gas coming out our you know what and Texas is on 20% wind which is a joke.
Coal bonfires even.
I like it.
I like it a lot.
Yep, sitting on a lot of energy we can’t even touch. There’s still some operating oil wells up here in the thumb of MI, but operating for how long is anybody’s guess. Prohibiting drilling here is just plain ridiculous.
We do drill for oil all over the place in Michigan but I think the quality is pretty low.
I can hear a new drilling rig near me off in the distance.
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