Posted on 09/21/2013 6:32:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Obama administration on Friday set the first-ever limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, but their impact could be minimal because they don’t apply to existing plants and there are few coal-fired power plants being built in the United States.
EPA administrator Gina McCarthy said the technology exists to capture and store the carbon, and the Department of Energy has billions in grants to help make it work.
“I believe this proposal, rather than killing the future of coal, actually sets a certain pathway forward for coal to be a part of the diverse energy mix in this country,” she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...
Burying a GAS.......?
Now to find out who was the first to Suggest this ludicrous proposal to discover what sort of medications they were abusing
more BS on the way folks.
BBC Headline : Norway abandons Mongstad carbon capture plans
"The outgoing government in Norway has buried much-vaunted plans to capture carbon dioxide and store it underground amid mounting costs and delays.
"At both the national and international level, the development of technologies to capture and store CO2 has taken longer,
been more difficult and more costly than expected," Oil and Energy Minister Ola Borten Moe told reporters...
Never say that our EPA wasn't up to current events!.. now if only they would read newspapers instead of looking at the political cartoons !
Another tax to drag us into Islam ... (er .. Correction) Submission !
Little impact? WTH? Apparently higher energy bills and hundreds if not thousands of folks dependent on coal out of work doesn’t amount to much. Nah. Hardly any impact at all. I guess king hussein’s wet dream of shutting down coal fired plants is about to happen. Asshats. Must be nice to live in a fantasy world. Even more insidious, what the hell are we gonna put in the Christmas stockings of kids who have mis-behaved?
You will have to put into their socks .. methane.
Its sorta like our _Resident : you know its there but you can't see it, it smells bad , and vaporizes just like all of his other promises !
Oh ,.. and don't spare the expense ! .. after all , we have a very large tax base.
Isn't it time for him to have another vacation ?
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls our climates.
3. The earth is a rock.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Hey!
If we can bury gas, we shouldn’t have any trouble burying nuclear waste!
Intended to reduce America to the level of Zimbabwe. This Junk Science is part of Cloward-Pivan strategy of Anarchy. Junk science by "useful idiots".
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