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.”
Report (not me) from upstate NY, two months of winter, emery utilities combined for 1500 sf $1,700. A pay plan, plus April at $500.
Not a peep about Obama. But the college educated gougee tells us that with global warming, the jersey shore, where the rest of the family lives, will see a ten foot rose in sea level over the next ten years
The answer, ‘that’s what they say. I don’t think so’
Response, ‘grrr. It oh eh eh eh yes it certainly is oh oh oh i just can’t talk about it!’
It’ll go way up and they’ll still blame bush and vote d
But you know, I lived there and voted for Reagan. He won that state
He did.
Who knows, maybe they are a bunch of traitors too.
One of the differences, is that the Brits had 4 or 5,000 mile supply lines, back to England. Here, the supply lines for this evil government, are a lot less. I am becoming more and more convinced, that the military WILL fire on American civilians, and drones will take out many patriots as well. It will not be pretty, but I think we are already beyond the tipping point. I wish it was different, but I think not.
Cain, Bachmann, Gingrich and Perry all looked good. (Maybe not Perry, God love him, and he’s an o k gov), so did Santorum
Romney never did. He slammed all of these people and I KNEW he would do the same to BO and I was correct. Two days ago he was on batting his eyes and smirking about BO being a nice fellow just misguided, not evil lik Gingrich, Santorum, Perry, Bachmann...
He does not look good now
He looks like the person who ushered this in and enabled it even after Benghazi
His smile does not cover up the nerve the chutzpah the contempt he has to show his used car salesman face
The GOPe is so much as responsible for this as is the media, Hollywood and the gimmeestuffs
No way are they taking over
Mississippi had netter go tea party to discourage the GOP because there are at least twice as many no three times as any IMHO Of course, won’t vote GOPers as there were not voting for Romney
I meant I knew that Romney would not slam BO even close to the way he did the republicans
He said there were 47% who would never vote for him
He was right. The faggy wimpy pundits freaked oh oh oh he can’t say that he’ll never win
Great advice right?
He groveled like a cartoon rat
Why? He was right
He wanted those voters. As soon as that happens, you know they’ve jumped over the net and have joined the other side competing on their court where they’ll never win - plus, that’s how they’d govern
No. Conservatives would have taken any one of the others than Romney. The others should’ve seen Romney’s money and backing ad decided to consolidate
Are they flawed ? Yes. Any one who points out their shortcomings is a media loving liberal sympathizer. Even Romney wouldn’t have left diplomat staff to die nor let the va health system falter this badly
lol
If the candidate could not attract the votes, there is no one else to blame.
I held my nose and voted for Mittens. Not that it mattered, this being Taxachusetts. I scorn all who did otherwise! They share the blame for the two-time Won!
Where were you?
An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House and two thirds of the Senate say it is. No judicial review (but the Chief[L] gets to count the votes wearing an extra-fancy robe).
The first is easily attainable, I would hope. Not so much the second.
I’d love to see the liberals opening their electric bills in a few years. Of course, it’ll be the republicans’ fault.
“Prez Hussein probably wants electricity to keep pace with skyrocketing food prices.”
It’s all about fairness, after all.
A lot of people will freeze to death this winter if it is like last year. Obama of course will sleep warm and dry
A whole country brought to its knees by the race card. The GOPe is scared to death of being called racist and The Media has them convinced that White racism is at the forefront of America’s concerns.
Actually , in 2007 SCOTUS ruled that CO2 was a pollutant and told EPA to regulate it with the Clean Air Act.
Bush, then Senator Obama, and essentially everyone wanted Congress to pre-empt EPA and enact legislation to regulate CO2. In 2008 Congress debated Cap and Trade supported by the GOP versus Cap and Tax supported by the dems. The GOP won with Cap and Trade so Congress would enact in 2009.
But the House Cap and Trade bill in 2009 failed for several different reasons. This legislation was much more stringent than what Obama is implementing. It would have applied to probably 13,000 companies in the US including cement kilns, refineries, steel mills.
Then in 2010 the Senate tried to pass a scaled back version that applied only to power plants but it also failed. Obama's plan is not much different from what the Senate proposed.
Everybody is complaining about this but the 2007 SCOTUS decision applied to all sources of CO2 including mobile sources(tail pipes). Congress' attempts and Obama's regs deal only with stationary sources.
In 2009, Obama, key members of Congress, the auto industry, and the oil industry agreed to raise CAFE standards to reduce CO2 emissions from tail pipes. This is going to cost you more than reducing CO2 emissions from power plants.
My last electric bill was $54.92.
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