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2008-07-18 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

EPA Wants More Regs; Cites Global Warming

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Posted by Bobby 2008-07-18 06:24|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 If the end is so close why can't we buy a hydrogen car , or an electric car that actually has a range far enough to go to work and back? Why can't we build a nuclear plant or an algae farm for ethanol on an industrial scale?
All the tech is there, nobody is turning out these products, why?

Yeah, yeah, I know, honda has a hydrogen car coming out sometime between now and the end of the universe. Electric cars are getting better and batteries need to be tested, blah, blah, blah. If things are so bad, why not release them even if they are not 100% perfect? I don't see the govt. or private business doing jack-shit to avert this so called doomsday scenario. Just a lot of whining
and crying and asking for more money/power in EPA's case.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-18 09:00|| 2008-07-18 09:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Government scientists detailed a rising death toll from heat waves, wildfires, disease and smog caused by global warming in an analysis the White House buried so it could avoid regulating greenhouse gases.

As real historical research shows, there are significant population drops when things got colder, not warmer. And anyone with more than an primary school education can see that climate is not static. It moves. It's always moved.

Could there be 'more' deaths because there are now 'more' people, particularly those who choose to live in areas that previously were not subject to mass habitation. However, why worry about little things like that when you have an agenda to push.

GIGO

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-07-18 09:10|| 2008-07-18 09:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Well they gotta get something passed before this gets to the masses:

The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science. The leadership of the society had previously called the evidence for global warming incontrovertible.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-07-18 10:38|| 2008-07-18 10:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Someone needs to stop the BULLSHIT machine in DC and the press, regarding anthropogenic global warming. Its is NOT NOT NOT a facts, its a supposition, and a poorly supported one at this point.

SToP THE INSANITY!

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-18 12:24|| 2008-07-18 12:24|| Front Page Top

#5 If the end is so close why can't we buy a hydrogen car , or an electric car that actually has a range far enough to go to work and back? Why can't we build a nuclear plant or an algae farm for ethanol on an industrial scale?
All the tech is there, nobody is turning out these products, why?

You know why Jim. It's them. They've always been after us and our SUVs. Big oil and
Washington are working together to maximize our misery. I have gone ballistic about this, I've shed car and have gone to a bike and Shanks Mare. I'm being followed sometimes tho. The man from Exxon (2 xx!) is following me trying to force me to buy gas. I hate him, but I have dreams, bitter dreams in which all the big oil stocks collapse as the price of gasoline rises! It would serve dem right. I have plans, big plans.. bwaaaaaa brwaaaaaaaaaaa hahahahaha bwhahah!

tl:dr: Drive less, walk more, get a bike. Don't bitch so much.

Posted by .5MT 2008-07-18 12:53|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-07-18 12:53|| Front Page Top

#6 The best thing that could be done for America is to disband the EPA along with several other noxious federal regulatory agencies that do nothing but promote their political agenda by pretending to help we less enlightened citizens to the path of true enlightenment. Hypocritical ignorant bastards.

Posted by RWV 2008-07-18 13:10|| 2008-07-18 13:10|| Front Page Top

#7 EPA Wants More ~~Regs~~ [Budget and Power to ruin people's lives]; Cites Global Warming

Fixed.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-07-18 13:36|| 2008-07-18 13:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Um yeah, it would be a 23 mile bike ride for me to go to the nearest town big enough to have a Kroger or Meijer. That's a tad long for me, the ice cream would surely melt on the way home.
Not everyone fits into the little gas saving schemes that they are pushing. There is no bus line out here, no taxis, no high speed rail. I'm not complaining, I like living away from the r-tards that infest every city in this country. But to callously tell people to "get a bike" is falling somewhat short of an effective argument.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-18 14:49|| 2008-07-18 14:49|| Front Page Top

#9 The EPA has threatened to fine the city of Wichita KS because they are on track to violate some EPA standards. But not because Wichita is polluting more but because the EPA has lowered the standards to an unachievable amount.

Are the farmers going drive a battery rig out into the field, plug their rig in somewhere, then carry 50 haybales to where they are needed. Then hop on their bike and ride it 10 miles home in December. Meanwhile hollywood flys overhead.

A power grab. I understand the point of the EPA but they are not mandated for this behavior.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-07-18 17:20|| 2008-07-18 17:20|| Front Page Top

#10 SToP THE INSANITY!

If you really wanna stop the insanity you start with the bloated federal budget and the idea that impositions such as mandates increased taxes and tariffs help anyone except congress and government.

republicans have been getting by for decades with the idea that imposing mandates and increasing the size and pwer of the federal government, while simultaneously talking about small government and family values. Their activities are destroying both.

The federal budget must be gutted, and everything is on the table to cut, not reduce, not borrow, but to totally eliminate.

There is no other option to save America but to destroy the power of an overly bloated government.

Do not cut taxes, but eliminate them

Do not reduce government but destroy its size and its power.

If I hear anyone talk about anything but this, I will not be listening.

Posted by badanov 2008-07-18 19:25|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2008-07-18 19:25|| Front Page Top

#11 You get the impression that the deck chairs on the Titanic are being shuffled and re-arranged in Washington. Do the grand dragons of government really believe that more regulations and taxes to support the regulatory load are the answer to all our problems. Man they are out of touch with reality. This is crazy.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-07-18 21:19|| 2008-07-18 21:19|| Front Page Top

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