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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My sister was born in the SE US. I tell her that because that part of the US came from Africa, that she was therefore African-American. In a sense we all are, given the evidence that mankind can trace its ancestry to Africa through DNA analysis.
Reunite Gondwanaland! (Or in this case, Laurasia.)
Long live Laurentia, death to Gondwanaland!
I also hate all the thugs that are doing their best to destroy our country....I hope EVERYONE that plans to vote really pay attention to just what is at stake....our nation,....our beloved country cannot survive another 4 years of this administration. And it’s BOTH parties, I’m sorry to say.There’s more than enough blame to go around.
Make fossil fuel so expensive it will be Comparable to the solar Panels that are less reliable
We need a national campaign as follows:
Oil is GOD’S SOLAR ENERGY. All our energy comes from the sun, God has stored it for us from millenniums before. We are just stupid not to use His solar energy.
Oh, good grief. His defiance of the EPA is practically the REASON the Obama admin is doing this power grab (pardon the pun).
Never mind the millions of taxpayer dollars he’s dumping into green energy that’s going nowhere.
St Rick can do no wrong
Clowns like you are absolutely no different than the code pink cowards who refuse to protest Obama. Zero moral courage.
This “rule” is national in scope, but make no mistake — Rick Perry’s defiance of the EPA inspired it, and the greatest adverse economic impact will be felt in Texas. If Texas utilities buckle under, the adverse impact will start crippling the Lone Star State just in time for the 2012 election.
Seriously? Clowns like me? What did I say that was factually incorrect?
You heard me.
You may go now.
You are correct regarding actual King Ranch. I was referring to the general area more precisely on the northern edge of KR. Maybe is actually on another big ranch, don’t remember its name. Kennedy?
Wind farms are not totally useless and can produce cheaper electicity, just not as reliable as coal or gas fired gen.
:-) Have a nice day yourself!
There are wind turbines across the bay east of Corpus, but they are nowhere near as concentrated as those south of Sweetwater or on the mesas east of Fort Stockton.
My son worked out there a short while during construction as a Service Tech with Mitsubishi, but didn’t stay long because he thought their safety program would end up getting one of the Techs killed. He went back to helos @ CCAD.
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