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EDITORIAL: Reckless 'endangerment' for breathing
The Washington Times ^ | December 8, 2009

Posted on 12/09/2009 9:23:35 AM PST by R4Roger05

Hey, you over there, stop breathing so much. You're endangering the rest of us.

Or at least that's what the Environmental Protection Agency would have you believe. The EPA officially ruled yesterday that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a dangerous pollutant subject to government regulation even without benefit of new legislation. CO2 is, of course, what animals and people exhale with every breath, after inhaling oxygen.

The EPA hastens to add that its CO2 "endangerment" ruling is aimed only at organizations that emit more than 250 tons of CO2 a year, not at ordinary people. But that's cold comfort. Common-sense limitations on regulations have a way of evaporating into thin air when the bureaucratic state starts ruling by administrative fiat. The EPA in recent years has become known for sending armed SWAT-type teams into small businesses for relatively minor enforcement actions. Indeed, businesses, both large and small, are likely to suffer drastically from the EPA's decision.

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KEYWORDS: co2; endangermentfinding; epa; unemployment
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1 posted on 12/09/2009 9:23:39 AM PST by R4Roger05
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Beam me to Planet Gore !

2 posted on 12/09/2009 9:24:43 AM PST by steelyourfaith (Time to prosecute Al Gore now that fellow scam artist Bernie Madoff is in stir.)
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To: R4Roger05
I would wager that some liberals have certainly used more than their share of breaths on this earth (not that I'd advocate any real life action on that assessment).
3 posted on 12/09/2009 9:26:52 AM PST by highlander_UW (To anger a conservative tell him a lie. To anger a liberal tell him the truth.)
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To: R4Roger05

Gain CO2 offsets by killing Bambi, et. al.(including Polar Bears - probably the largest source of CO2 in the Arctic.


4 posted on 12/09/2009 9:27:17 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: R4Roger05

Gain CO2 offsets by killing Bambi, et. al.(including Polar Bears - probably the largest source of CO2 in the Arctic).


5 posted on 12/09/2009 9:27:28 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: R4Roger05

Jan 21st, 2013. 1st order of business - abolish the EPA....and a few others.


6 posted on 12/09/2009 9:28:02 AM PST by SueRae
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To: R4Roger05

>> The EPA officially ruled yesterday that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a dangerous pollutant
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>> CO2 is, of course, what animals and people exhale

How many kids, and adults, will experience some form of anxiety as a result of this ‘official’ proclamation?


7 posted on 12/09/2009 9:33:51 AM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: R4Roger05

athletics and exercise must now be banned as they increase the rate of respiration.


8 posted on 12/09/2009 9:36:16 AM PST by marsh2
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LOL...and thanks to militant anti-smokers and their unwitting dupes, there’s oodles of second hand smoke laws, restrictions and precedence that can be easily adopted to regulate how we all exhale.


9 posted on 12/09/2009 9:37:46 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: steelyourfaith

Slaves to the EPA

sung to the tune of BORN IN THE USA

Born down in a normal town
The first crime I did was when I exhaled air
My parents criminal act was using heat too much
Till they spend half their life just paying up

Slaves to the EPA, We are owned by the EPA
I owe my life to the EPA, Owned by the EPA

My SUV is a little homegrown jam
So they put a golf cart in my hand
It was made in a foreign land
To pay back bill to the yellow man

Slaves to the EPA, We are owned by the EPA
I owe my life to the EPA, Owned by the EPA

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man said we are closing see
Went down to see solar man
He said son, don’t you understand

I had a brother at EXXON
Drilling wells that last so long
They’re not there, plugged and gone

He had a pickup he loved in Houston
I got a picture of it in Gov hands now

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Gas fires out in the refinery
I’m ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain’t got nowhere to go

Slaves to the EPA, We are owned by the EPA
I owe my life to the EPA, Owned by the EPA
Owned by the EPA,
I’m a fool sucking victim of the EPA.


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10 posted on 12/09/2009 9:38:34 AM PST by BOBTHENAILER ( EPA will rule your life)
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To: marsh2
athletics and exercise must now be banned as they increase the rate of respiration.

Exactly. Sports must be outlawed. Physical fitness centers must be destroyed. Military training forbidden. The Exhale Police will be on the lookout to arrest fat people for breathing excessively.

11 posted on 12/09/2009 9:42:41 AM PST by kromike
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To: R4Roger05

How about we start a Tea Party where we show up in large groups around EPA office breathing heavily and drinking soda pop.

We could do breathing exercises together where we breathe in, hold it and then all breathe out at once.

Maybe have signs that say, “The EPA hates trees, think of the saplings!”


12 posted on 12/09/2009 9:46:17 AM PST by GraceG
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>> Gain CO2 offsets by killing Bambi, et. al.(including Polar Bears - probably the largest source of CO2 in the Arctic). <<

If you start shooting polar bears to limit the CO2 they produce they are going to start saying that Gore-bull warming killed them and only reinforce their false point. I think capturing polar bears and setting them loose in environmentalists homes and businesses would be far more effective.


13 posted on 12/09/2009 9:48:41 AM PST by GraceG
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To: R4Roger05

When I used to say that if the government could figure out a way to tax breathing, they would do it, I thought I was being facetious. Now I’m not so sure.


14 posted on 12/09/2009 9:49:59 AM PST by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the People's Republic of Boulder)
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To: R4Roger05

To think the human race has survived this long with all this toxic breathing nonsense.


15 posted on 12/09/2009 9:50:35 AM PST by JenB987
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The EPA hastens to add that its CO2 "endangerment" ruling is aimed only at organizations that emit more than 250 tons of CO2 a year, not at ordinary people.

The emissions in Yellowstone Park each year are significantly more than that. What are they going to do, shut down the volcano under the park? That'll surely create a bunch of construction jobs. Here I come, shovel ready or not!

16 posted on 12/09/2009 9:51:55 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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NOW: Live from Copenhagen (Americans for Prosperity broadcast)
http://streaming.videofilesinc.com/events/afp/index.html

COP15 Proposals – summary from AEP simulcast from Copenhagen today
(Americans for Prosperity) http://www.americansforprosperity.org/national-site

COP15 Proposals:
- Western Economic Tax of 2% of GDP
- Removal of IP/Patent Rights for New Technology
- US Constitution is “only paper”, so “Copenhagen Treaty” as been renamed an “Agreement” so Obama can sign it on Friday
- Words “worldwide government” has been dropped from the “Treaty”; but there are 700 new global gov entities created
- The “Treaty” contains extensive, significant details (currently not being reported) on establishment of worldwide government
- Unions are advocating “global welfare” for the millions who will become unemployed “during this necessary economic transition period”

EPA Endangerment Finding:
- Covers 100% of McDonalds (any fast food restaurant)
- Covers all Mining, Cement Plants, PetroChemical Plants, Refineries, Trains, Shipping, Long-haul Trucks
- Covers all Manufacturing sites of any size
- Covers all Buildings in the US of moderate size and larger which use natural gas or heating oil for winter heat

Rick Perry:
- 400,000 jobs will be lost in Texas from EPA finding
- Electricity costs will rise $1400 per family, on average


17 posted on 12/09/2009 9:52:10 AM PST by Nobel_1 (bring on the Patriots!)
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To: GraceG
Unfortunately there are not enough polar bears.

Perhaps we could use Polar AND Grizzly bears to wreak righteous environmental CO2 justice?

18 posted on 12/09/2009 9:52:31 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: GraceG
“The EPA hates trees, think of the saplings!”

LOL!

This same "thinking" is applied by the rabid environmentalists who love the reintroduction of wolves yet turn a blind eye to the decimation of the elk population as a result of their irresponsible wildlife management.

I always ask them: "Why do environmentalists hate elks?"

19 posted on 12/09/2009 9:53:04 AM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Don Corleone
The Yellowstone environmental disaster has long been an issue with me (though I welcome the ability to legally protect myself in NPs with firearms).

Clearly the EPA has been falling down on the job by not taking the NPS to task for sulfur emissions in Yellowstone. That CO2 in Yellowstone may be an issue too is icing on the cake.

20 posted on 12/09/2009 9:57:09 AM PST by Paladin2
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