Congress is set to vote on a series of amendments aimed to limit the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to impose restrictions on carbon limits without congressional approval. The votes could come as early as next week.
Environmental groups have petitioned the FDA to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. The impact of such an action would be enormous. Such a regulatory action – which has never been approved by Congress – would raise energy price and reduce energy supplies making President Obama’s admission that such regulation would cause electricity rates to “skyrocket,” reality. A Harvard University study found the Obama greenhouse gas targets would cause gas prices to rise between $7 and $10 a barrel.
Sen. Inhofe and Sen. Manchin have drafted a bill that would specifically prohibit the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases. This is putting some liberal members who support radical environmentalists in a difficult position – especially Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV).
Rockefeller is a liberal whose constituency is built on generations of coal mining and manufacturing. He has lectured his state on the need for “change” rather than fight for their interested. He publically opposed Climate Change legislation pushed for by environmentalists but voted to allow the bill to come to the floor. He even expressed disappointment when the Congress did not address Climate Change even it would decimate jobs in his state.
He is again playing the “Charleston Two-Step.” Rather than support his fellow West Virginians effort to protect jobs in the state, Rockefeller has proposed an amendment to limit the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases for two years – or until after his re-election campaign in 2012.
He is now paying the price. A new ad campaign is blistered Rockefeller in the state and rightly so.
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America has the resources and ability to power itself. Obama would rather give loans to Brazil (and a promise to buy their oil) rather than allow American workers to get it from the Gulf of Mexico. And now rather than allowing our coal workers to bring power online, the Administration would rather fund the green boondoggle of wind and solar with taxpayer dollars.
Whether the votes in the Senate are there to end the EPA’s reign of terror on West Virginia and America’s energy producers remains to be seen. But it’s time that voters in these areas know whether their “representatives” stand especially those who hide their real views like Sen. Rockefeller.
If the EPA were to limit green-house gasses, particularly CO2 which the whackos still believe causes global warming, does this mean that I will be taxed for living?
Will a state have to purchase carbon credits based on the number of wildlife within the state?
Will cattle-farmers, pig farmers, etc. have to purchase carbon credits for the number of animals they own?
Will there be a federal carbon officer come to my door to get an accurate count of all my pets, and bill me for their use of air and exhalation of CO2 based on their size and number?
Will I get a discount based on the number of trees on my property?
Can a carbon credit be exchanged, like currency?
These, and other questions, come to mind whenever I see a discussion about the EPA limiting CO2, and the environmentalists promoting carbon credits.
CO2 is not a hazard to humans. Controlling CO2 is a way to control the economy, not to protect human or environmental health. Remember the Spotted Owl that closed down most of the forest industry in the Pacific North West? They made the case that spotted owls could only live in old growth forests. Infact, spotted owls only are concerned with holes in trees for nesting. They could care less about old growth forests. The environmentalists shut down a whole industry by deception.
The EPA should stick with proven chemical hazards like Alar and DDT. LOL
In the second paragraph you wrote:
“Environmental groups have petitioned the FDA to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.”
I’m guessing that you meant to write “EPA”.
As a first act on controlling carbon, the government will issue mandatory masks for all individuals. These masks will track how much you breathe in and out and calculate your carbon dioxide output. You will be billed daily, in case you expire, they can still collect the money through that date.
That is, unless you can get an Obama waiver.