December 07, 2009
Obama's EPA Declares Naturally-Occurring Air Gases Are "Pollutants;"
Asserts Sweeping Power To Regulate Every Aspect of American Life
These radical left-wing zealots constitute a clear and present danger to our way of life:
The Environmental Protection Agency has concluded greenhouse gases are endangering people's health and must be regulated, signaling that the Obama administration is prepared to contain global warming without congressional action if necessary.EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson scheduled a news conference for later Monday to announce the so-called endangerment finding, officials told The Associated Press, speaking privately because the announcement had not been made.
In short, the unelected Lisa Jackson—with Barack Obama's blessing—has just declared herself to be more powerful than Congress, laying the groundwork for the Obama Administration to dictate business emissions, vehicle use, energy use, punitive taxes or penalties and even the kind and numbers of livestock that can be raised. Frankly, this declaration would seem to leave the EPA as the most powerful part of the federal government not specifically trained in how best to kill people.
This is underhanded, anti-democratic, and a serious threat to our economy, our way of life, and standard of living.
By the way, Lisa Jackson, you produce CO2 every time you exhale. Be a leader.
You stop first.
people, you have no idea what this is going to do to the cost of food that you do not grow yourself.
Posted by: bman at December 7, 2009 03:43 PMI keep coming back to the same thought: this is going to be fun to watch, in a horrid, twisted, slow-motion-train-wreck kind of way. The EPA now has only two choices:
1) refuse to regulate CO2, and be buried under lawsuits from greenie organizations; or
2) try to regulate CO2, and watch power companies (and lots of other businesses, but mostly power companies) go bankrupt en masse because they can't afford to pay all the new fines and fees. This will lead to lots of consumers (VOTERS) shivering in the dark, without any of the modern conveniences that electricity makes possible -- computers, cellphones, cable TV, Internet, fridge, freezer, stove, plumbing...
It won't last.
Posted by: wolfwalker at December 7, 2009 04:41 PMwolfwalker:
Huh? Haven't you been paying attention since this past January?
Once the utilities go bankrupt, Obama and the Dems will simply nationalize them. Then they can be converted to wind, solar, and pixie dust.
They don't work well? I guess we'll have to limit the amount of electricity that's used, and when it's used, in order to make sure everyone has "fair" access to it.
(And don't even think about buying your own generator, b/c they'll generate CO2 as well.)
With the bailed-out press applauding all the way.
Posted by: Lurking Observer at December 7, 2009 05:14 PMthe chance of that happening is slim to none as long as the 2nd ammendment is still in operation.
obama has no chance of becoming his hero chavez
I would like these scumbags to stop thier incessant breathing in and out creating the dreaded co2
Posted by: rumcrook® at December 7, 2009 05:24 PMThis is amazing to watch, just days after the whole globull warming hoax has been debunked instead of backtracking the liberals are doubling down. It's truly bizarre
Posted by: Capitalist Infidel at December 7, 2009 05:30 PMWell, if they think C02 needs to be regulated, I'd like to see them try and put a "scrubber" over my mouth and nose.
Posted by: MikeM at December 7, 2009 07:37 PMLurking Observer: Even if they do that, it won't make any difference. I think Stephen den Beste nailed it to the wall in this article at Hot Air. The Jackasses think that wishing will make it so, that if they order the power plants to run under these new restrictions, then the power plants will find a way to do it. But that's not gonna happen. It won't matter if they do a TARP for power companies, or nationalize the power plants outright, or anything. It can't possibly work. It will be a train-wreck. It can be nothing else.
Posted by: wolfwalker at December 7, 2009 11:35 PMThis post has been linked for the HOT5 Daily 12/8/2009, at The Unreligious Right
Posted by: UNRR at December 8, 2009 05:26 AMWolfwalker got it 1/2 right. Lawsuits from the Greens are inevitable. BUT lawsuits from industry and effected others are even more inevitable. Just one Judge putting a stop on the action will be enough to derail this train.
Posted by: CoRev at December 8, 2009 07:50 AMwolfwalker:
But I think you're missing their point.
In an ideal (for the Left) world, they'd stop the emission of CO2 completely. But if they can't do that, bankrupting the utilities and taking them over is the next best thing.
B/c then they get to take them over.
And if it's a train-wreck, well, it will be blamed on the utilities, the corporations, etc.
Think about Kucinich and how he "managed" the Cleveland utility when he was mayor.
Or CA's power deregulation, where the state forbade long-term contracts, forcing utilities onto the spot market, then blamed the utilities when prices went through the roof.
A combination of overweening desire for power and an utter disdain (and ignorance) of fundamental economics is a scary combination.
Kill 'em all and let Gaia sort 'em out.
Posted by: SicSemperTyrannus at December 8, 2009 10:10 AMLet them try. They can kiss our hineys. If the
EPA employees have a lick of sense they will soone be hunting new jobs. It will be safer for everyone if they do.
