President Barack Obama's EPA not nobody else's is proceeding with rules to regulate carbon-dioxide pollution, a greenhouse gas blamed for climate change, after Congress scared of their constituencies failed to pass legislation. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has said she will pursue modest steps that will help reduce emissions over time. Critics said yesterday's guidance for states and companies confused more than it clarified.
"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 politcians assert contributes to climate change, EPA Assistant Administrator Gina McCarthy said. That way Kaliphornia can never have another power plant built within their borders. Do we have to sell them electricity?
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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.
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The agency said increasing energy efficiency probably will emerge as the most cost-effective solution.
The EPA said its 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?
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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.
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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.
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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 ||
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That was cold, Bobby, real cold.
Posted by: Matt ||
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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)
A prominent Michigan Republican said Friday he is running against Michael Steele, arguing the GOP can win in 2012 only if the party chairman steps out of the limelight and allows candidates to be the voice and face of the party.
Saul Anuzis, who lost his bid for Republican National Committee chairman two years ago, made his plans known in an e-mail.
"My agenda is very straightforward. I have no interest in running for office. I won't be writing a book. It is not my goal to be famous," said Anuzis, who promised to serve just one two-year term and work hard to elect Republicans "from the top to every township and city across this great country of ours."
His statement was a slap at Steele, who has generated controversy repeatedly in his tenure as party chairman, sometimes drawing attention that was detrimental to the Republican cause. Replacing Steele is a good start. He has shown to be nothing more than the RHINO, country club republican that has cost the party so heavily in the past few years.
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he'd have to improve to be "just incompetent". Replace him!
Posted by: Frank G ||
11/12/2010 13:39 Comments ||
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Frank G,
The RNC chairman doesn't set poilcy and doesn't select candidates. The RNC raised $175 million under Steele's watch not to mention the Pubs made a historic gains. So I'm a bit confused. How is he incompetent? Just askin...
basically the guy should be raising money, raising money, and raising money while building a GOTV effort. Instead HE became the story all too often. When he was picked, I thought it was a good pick because his prior efforts seemed capable and smart. I was wrong. The GOP had a blockbuster year despite him, mostly out of dislike for Donk overreach as well as the rise of the Tea Party
Posted by: Frank G ||
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...basically the guy should be raising money, raising money, and raising money...
Agreed. So let's put it another way, the RNC hauled in over $175 million this cycle. That was 34% more than previous record set by DNC in 2006. And that ain't chump change. Guess I was looking at the bottom line not style points - but I catch yer drift.
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he can point to that exemplary amount of money, and rehabilitate his image and come back....later. I think he's a smart guy, despite recent history, but I'd rather he's replaced. 2012 is standing ahead as a real turning point in this nation's course, if we do well. I'd like the best person in the spot, and I just think it's not Steele, right now.
Posted by: Frank G ||
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RNC under Steele blew things by not funding nor working GOTV nationally - it cost them the Buck race in Colorado for instance.
Held, air gun (i.e., a gun that expels a projectile using compressed air, carbon dioxide, propane, or similar gas) replicas of AR/M-16 variant firearms that provide housing for a hammer and firing mechanism with substantially the same design as AR/M-16 variant firearm receivers, and mounting points for attaching an upper assembly containing a barrel and bolt, are "firearm frames or receivers," and are, therefore, "firearms," as that term is defined by 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(3)(B), and its implementing regulation, 27 CFR 478.11.
Ergo, if it looks like a machine gun, it is a machine gun. Because it's scary or something. Therefore we can regulate it as whimsically as we want to.
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You can't have any shaving cream. The supply of Eludium Phosdex, the Shaving Cream Atom, is low, and must be held in trust for very important uses and future generations.
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Convert the reciever for AR/M-16 ammunition I figure it would be good for one shot explosion. You do it Mikey, not me.
Posted by: Spearong Prince of the Bunions9034 ||
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When my mom was in the FBI in the late 40s and early 50s there was a standing warning from Hoover that the ATF was never to be trusted. Looks like some things never change.
Posted by: Water Modem ||
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Read the comments, Florida is still a hate filled state. Too bad.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
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I read them - I wonder how many of those commentors were home-grown floridians and how many were blue-state transplants bringing their idiocy w/them.
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Agreed, can't pin internet armchairing on Florida in general. What we can do is wonder why some dork took time out his life to write a book about raising chaos and arms against specific groups. Also, Mr. West's political opponents cannot go after him directly at this point and may be thinking 6 years from now.
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From one of the comments: Plus, it's *lots* easier to hate whoever They point out as the Enemy instead of looking at who's paying their bills and writing their scripts and realizing that you've just voted in a House majority that's itching to cut Social Security and Medicare so your ailing mother is moving back in with you.
Right!!! Now you get it!!! I would rather have my mother move in with me than to have Big Brother stealing my money.
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I agree that ailing parents should move in with their kids. It might be quite difficult in the tents/trailers people are living in these days during the depression, part two.
Posted by: Black Charlie Chinemble5313 ||
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In this economic condition the adult 'kids' are already living in their ailing parents homes.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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A prominent Michigan Republican said Friday he is running against Michael Steele, arguing the GOP can win in 2012 only if the party chairman steps out of the limelight and allows candidates to be the voice and face of the party.
