Posted on 03/27/2012 7:37:42 AM PDT by Qbert
what if we find out the premise of “greenhouse gas” is FAKE?????
Can I have my lightbulbs back and go back to cheap gas??
It was a Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt that pushed for rural electrification that made the heartland what it is today. Now we have another Democratic president who wants to take away those inexpensive sources of power.
I imagine that brownouts and blackouts are not going to enhance his popularity, but he doesn’t have to worry — the effects won’t be felt until after the election so the sheeple will likely vote for him anyway.
Because in 2007 SCOTUS ruled that CO2 was a pollutant.
Bush didn't move to implement so as to give Congress a chance to pre-empt SCOTUS.
And, Congress did move that way in that decicided to do that and they went thru the process of cap and tax versus cap and trade and cap and trade was all settled in 2008.
So, Congress moved forward in 2009 in which the House would write the Cap and Trade Legislation and the Senate would write the energy bill to accompany cap and trade.
That failed so in 2010 a second attempt began in the senate led by Kerry, Lieberman and Graham which was more limited but it also failed, but EPA revised their thresholds around that legislation.
So, in 2010 EPA moved forward, and many, many lawsuits were filed. Then in late 2010 many of plantiffs tried to get the courts to stay or block EPA from moving forward until all the lawsuits could be heard and ruled on. The courts said no stays.
As for enforcement only one company in 2011 fell under the reg and that didn't cause any problems.
Eventually Congress will get it together and what ever they come up with will be more stringent than what EPA is doing.
[ Obama’s “turn them into a 3rd world country, keep them freezing, broke and hungry and they’ll obey anything” energy program. Hey—it has worked in Africa for decades, it’ll work here. ]
Heck at least the in the third world you could open a coal plant even if it puts out more smoke than heat.
It is perfectly fine for china to pollute the crap outta their own people and the rest of the world but heaven forbid we open any new coal plants that put out far less pollution than any currently existing plants that are still in operation.....
We are shooting ourselves in the foot and the rest of the world is laughing at us.
Because the Congress just sits there. The EPA should NOT be allowed to do something like this; but, they do because they know they can get away with it. Yell at the Congress. They are the ones who should be passing legislation that would cancel out this overreach.
Old joke...
Q: What did people in Zimbabwe light their houses with before candles?
A: Rhodesian electricity.
Oh yeah, thats right. Rhodesia isn't there anymore.
It is now a sub-third world sh!thole.
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“Why is the EPA allowed to just decree regulations, with no input from Congress or anyone else?”
I think you already know the answer to that question, but ... here it is: Congress gave the EPA that authority under the Clean Air Act of 1970 and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. And those Acts were signed into law by Republican Presidents Nixon and GHW Bush. Further, in both 1970 and 1990, there were more than 40 Republican senators. Neither would have withstood a veto nor would they have left a filbustered Senate if Republicans did not want them to. Both are products of true bipartisanship.
Also, the EPA does accept input on its proposed rules both by written comments and public hearings. If anybody wants to comment on the rule, check out the EPA rule proposal at http://epa.gov/carbonpollutionstandard./pdfs/20120327proposal.pdf. Federal bureaucrats routinely post and politely ignore comments made by their serfs and subjects.
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