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| EPA Presses Ahead with Karbon Killing |
| 2010-11-12 |
| President Barack Obama's EPA "They may have muddied the waters even more," said Bernard Weinstein, an economist and associate director of the Maguire Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. "My concern is the energy and manufacturing sectors won't know what to do." The EPA said complaints that the rules will halt the building of power plants are "simply wrong." We understand it! Whatzamatta wid you morons? The agency said yesterday that states can determine what pollution-cutting technologies power plants and oil refineries should use when the first national carbon-dioxide emission rules take effect next year. Environmental activists praised EPA's flexibility. Pushing the enforcement down on the States, so then the EPA can sue the States that don't conform to their ever-changing definition of acceptable technology. Diabolical. The rules will be implemented by states through a permitting process when companies seek permission to build or upgrade operations. States will be able to determine on a case-by-case basis the "best available control technology" that companies should use to limit carbon-dioxide pollution that That way Kaliphornia can never have another power plant built within their borders. Do we have to sell them electricity? |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #9 On the other hand Bobby - if they are on the Dole they can't do any more damage. (except vote Democratic... which they probably do now) |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-11-12 22:23 |
| #8 That was cold, Bobby, real cold. |
| Posted by: Matt 2010-11-12 18:34 |
| #7 You can't close down all those agencies. Think of what it would do to the unemployment rate! Do you think those clowns can be re-trained? They'll be on the dole forever! Same with the IRS and the flat tax - bazillions of unemployed. You think they're going to work construction, shovelling concrete? So it's going to have to be done slowly and the first step is to stop the growth. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2010-11-12 17:47 |
| #6 The EPA said it's unlikely for now that companies will have to install costly technologies... That statement is completely incompatible with the "best available technologies" language the EPA is slinging about. It's a bit like products liaility actions where manufacturers have been slammed with enormous judgments because they failed to utilize the "best available" means to make their products safer. Nevermind that said "best available" means would guarantee price increases so large that not a single unit of the product in question would ever have been sold. |
| Posted by: AzCat 2010-11-12 17:30 |
| #5 Another agency that should be cut to shreads. It has nothing to do with the environment anymore. Just like the completely useless DOE or the spendthrift department of "education". Just completely useless departments, nefarious and a waste off money. |
| Posted by: newc 2010-11-12 13:22 |
| #4 The DEA needs to go the way of the DoDo, along with several other of the alphabet soup agencies. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-11-12 12:59 |
| #3 DE-fund. We don't have the time or money for this horseshit. |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-11-12 12:04 |
| #2 The agency said increasing energy efficiency probably will emerge as the most cost-effective solution. The EPA said itÂ’s unlikely for now that companies will have to install costly technologies... Yeah riiight! Remember when they promised ObamaCare would "bend down the cost curve"? Yeah, what that really meant was now I can look forward to lower co-pays on my Pap Smears sometime around 2020. Can you say...Nudge? |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2010-11-12 11:01 |
| #1 That way Kaliphornia can never have another power plant built within their borders. Do we have to sell them electricity? It worked out that way during one of their previous power crises; Washington state had to sell them power even though they had a drought on at the time. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-11-12 09:33 |