Posted on 06/02/2014 8:11:19 PM PDT by Kaslin
When President Obama ran for office in 2008, he promised he'd implement new policies that would force electricity rate to "necessarily" skyrocket.
Obama: My Plan Makes Electricity Rates Skyrocket
Here we are six years later and President Obama is set to announce new, major regulations on power plants in the name of climate change. The New York Timesis calling it the boldest move ever made by a president to address the issue.
The Obama administration is set to announce a rule Monday to limit carbon emissions in thousands of fossil-fuel burning plants across the country, a cornerstone of President Obama’s climate-change agenda and his first-term promise to reduce such emissions by 17 percent by 2020.
The Environmental Protection Agency will ask existing plants to cut pollution by 30 percent by 2030, according to people familiar with the proposal who shared the details with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, since they have not been officially released.
Over at HotAir, Erika Johnsen describes new regulations as "uncharted waters" for the EPA, which arguably under the Obama administration has already vastly expanded its authority, constitutional or not. Further, the EPA has set up the new regulations strategically in expectation they'll be sued.
Leave it to the Obama Environmental Protection Agency to plumb the heretofore untested depths of regulatory legerdemain to justify their environmentalist central planning.
The Obama administration’s forthcoming regulations on existing power plants — i.e., the main course of their proffered climate-change menu, set for release this week — were always going to spark a whole host of legal challenges no matter what provisions they used for their justification. The negative economic impact the new rules will have on a bunch of states and industries is certainly going to make it worth their while, and part of the EPA’s task in devising the rules was to find the best way possible to protect them from these challenges.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are already pushing back against the measure, calling Obama's EPA power move just another episode in the ongoing war on coal an blue-collar workers.
President Barack Obama has "set out to kill coal" with his plans for cutting carbon emissions regulations like his proposed national energy tax, Sen. Mike Enzi said Saturday.
"We all want clean air and clean water," Wyoming's Enzi said in this week's GOP address. "We don’t want costly regulations that make little or no difference, that are making things less affordable. Republicans want electricity and gas when you need it, at a price you can afford.”
HECO to raise monthly bill by $4.89
Aren’t they already getting energy subsidies?
In all seriousness—Obama’s recent violations of the Constitution must be met with consequences. He is literally asking for it. The House leadership must step up and defund the Executive Branch now. This isn’t a game anymore. Even CBS News is reporting how we just let the Al Quaida Dream Team go in exchange for a deserter. Did the MSM finally wake up? After the VA scandal, Benghazi, the IRS scandal, voter fraud, open borders, etc., etc. Even Jay Carney looks sick to his stomach as he tries to defend this stuff. Nancy Pelosi ran down the hallway to escape reporters after the meeting on the Benghazi investigation.
C’mon America! This guy is just waiting for someone to finally say “stop it!”.
What exactly do you mean by Congress?
The Senate and House of Representatives taken as a whole.
Probably.
195.00 this month in south Ga for 2100sqft
Obama is a damn fool.
NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service. Shutting down America's seafood industry. Country importing over 90% of seafood. Fishing industry decimated by unwarranted regulatory burdens.
Why has Congress not even attempted to stop these diktats? Only Congress can make law.
Fool? Yes...but everything he does is intentional. I’d say he’s an effective traitor to his oath.
1st qtr, 2014 U.S. economic growth was at .01% or less indicating that the economic goal of “Sustainable Development/Agenda 21” as adopted by the U.S. has largely been met. This also fulfills the machiavellian wish of Maurice Strong, UN Chairman of UNCED aka The Rio Earth Summit where in 1992 he articulated the intentions of the “Plan for the 21st Century- Sustainable Development/Agenda 21” by saying this in regard to our “unsustainable” high consumption of natural resources which is, according to them destroying the Earth; “...isn’t it our responsibility to bring about the collapse of the industrialized countries?” Now, to become truly as “Sustainable” as perhaps Bangladesh, more vital work is quickly needed to further collapse and “Degrow” the economy. This will be accomplished with draconian restrictions on business and energy use which will be mandated by arbitrary regulations spawned from the bogus hype to save the planet from the dread effects of antropogenic Global Warming aka Climate Change aka Climate Disruption.
http://blogs.worldwatch.org/sustainableprosperity/resources/clubfordegrowth/
How?
The House is powerless
Even with the Senate absent a veto proof majority, nothing can be done to thwart the efforts of the tyrant
And Congress has ignored King Barry usurping their role for years.
The leaders of the GOP should be standing up and loudly denouncing these dictatorial moves by this President and the courts making laws (gay marriage) but they are silent, and plotting against conservatives instead.
Where were you on this? Cain's crotch got him in trouble. Bachmann was a nutcase and still is. Gingrich made a PSA at one time that made some people mad, and the deacons frowned on his marital history. Perry couldn't remember his own program on national tv. So where were you?
Cain’s crotch... what are you smoking. Democrats filth on him and you believe the democrats?
Wouldn’t you love to have “nutcase” any day of the week, if Bachmann is one.
You are someone who so treasures cynicality you don’t know a gift of God if heaven shouts at you about it.
It was one hand washing the other for a long time. Except with Barry, he won’t wash any Republican hand.
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