Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will be focusing this week on blocking the Environmental Protection Agency from its plans to implement a ‘backdoor’ Cap and Trade tax. The EPA under direction from the Obama Administration regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, is trying to force through tougher carbon emission standards which will amount to higher fees and taxes on small business. McConnell is adding an amendment to the Small Business Reauthorization Act, coordinating with the House Energy Tax Prevention Act from Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI). Upton′s bill would prohibit the EPA from using the Clean Air Act to regulate so-called ‘greenhouse gases’, most notably, carbon dioxide. As we, who actually read a science book now and then, know, carbon dioxide is hardly a ‘greenhouse gas’, as the vast majority of its sources are biological. Every time you exhale, you emit CO2. The Number One source of CO2 is, in fact, termites, who, pound-for-pound, represent the single largest mass of life on Earth.
Democrats, who want to regulate and tax every aspect of our lives, are attempting to oppose McConnell’s amendment in the Senate. Leading the effort is Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV). In the House, there seems little doubt that the GOP will pass Upton′s bill. But to stop the EPA cold in its tracks would require a victory in the Senate. While Democrats do still hold a slim majority in the Senate, 23 of them will be up for reelection in 2012. If the EPA is allowed to move forward with its plans, the end result will be less job creation, if not an outright net job loss!
Rockefeller′s own bill on the matter would ‘delay’ the EPA, but would not stop those regulations already enacted. His bill is essentially political ‘cover’ for Democrats to hide behind. One major flaw in Rockefeller′s proposal completing ignores the EPA′s National Air Ambient Quality standards. Some economists have calculated that this regulation alone would cost American industry some $1 Trillion dollars per year and could result in a loss of up to 7 Million jobs! Rockefeller′s bill also does not prevent the EPA from adding additional carbon standards to vehicle emissions, nor prevents the EPA from sitting on applications for new construction permits.
Sen. Mitch McConnell needs our support to get his amendment to the Small Business Reauthorization Act passed. This will block the Environmental Protection Agency from any further regulations that would ‘backdoor’ a Cap and Trade Tax on carbon dioxide emissions. The EPA is moving quickly on its plans to expand its power grab. If they succeed, it will mean higher prices for gasoline, as well as other consumer items, and cost our economy $1 Trillion dollars and as many as 7 Million jobs. Are not the White House and Democrats suppose to be working to create jobs? Apparently not! Please contact your U.S. senators and Congressmen and demand that they support the McConnell amendment!
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March 29th, 2011 at 4:18 am
This is being done at obama’s direction, since he knows cap and trade will not make it through Congress. This is criminal! How can any democrat defend this when it may cost him or her their job? This obama needs to go to prison, he’s a fcking criminal!
Meanwhile Goldman Sachs and al gore are all invested and set up to sell carbon footprint credits to offset CO2 emissions. How is paying for an imaginary credit going to stop the environment from being polluted? It’s not, it’s only going to make all these liberals rich on the backs of working people.
This is going to create more unemployment, higher energy costs, and stunt the growth of the economy, while the countries that are rolling in the dough because they manufacture and produce without harsh regulations flourish, all thanks to our “over-educated”, inexperienced, illustrious president!
March 29th, 2011 at 5:03 am
Youtube: Fall Of The Republic 10/14: The Presidency Of Barack H Obama
or:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97n-a9EYUIQ
March 29th, 2011 at 5:53 am
Ron: “How is paying for an imaginary credit going to stop the environment from being polluted?”
If you are really interested in learning more about how emissions trading programs work, you might want to google “Sulpher Dioxide emissions trading” for a background on similar programs. These are programs that were implemented decades ago in different countries, including the US, to reduce acid rain.
I personally don’t know much about such programs, specifically the results, other than reading somewhere they did work to reduce acid rain. But I just read that one place; it’s not a subject I’ve delved into. I just know these aren’t new programs, and so there’s a model in place that I believe the proposed carbon emissions program is based on. They are typically characterized as more market-based solutions as opposed to just putting across the board regulations/standards on equipment and industrial processes that emit emissions.
If they work, great. That’s the area I need more information on. If they don’t, and turn mostly into yet another complicated trading market…that’s another story.
March 29th, 2011 at 6:31 am
SO ITS THE TERMITES !!!
EATING OUR HOMES AND MOWING DOWN THE RAIN FORESTS WAS JUST A ROUSE !!!
March 29th, 2011 at 6:36 am
Maybe they could figure out a way to trade of radioactive emissions.
I hear they’ll be a big seller any day now
March 29th, 2011 at 8:14 am
Yep, Micky,
In terms of bio-mass, termites outweigh humanity by something like a factor of 100 or 1000 times. It’s some crazy number like that.
March 29th, 2011 at 8:17 am
Ginnie,
Yes whole Cap-n-Trade thing is one big scam that will allow JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs another stupid thing to make trillions of dollars on. The EPA is already trashing our economy. You may recall during the auto bailout hearing, the CEO of Ford told Congress that federal regulations were their single largest expense.
March 29th, 2011 at 9:29 am
Andy: “The EPA is already trashing our economy.”
Sorry, regulations aren’t avoidable if we want to breath clean air and drink clean water. I do not want this country to become what China seems to be becoming…a polluted hellhole. At least in that main province where most of their industrial activity takes place, I forget the name. That stuff drifts over here, too.
March 29th, 2011 at 9:31 am
I don’t know if the whole emissions trading thing is a good idea either, but it seems to me that conservatives don’t want any kind of efforts made to curb pollution. You want everything to be “voluntary.” Come on! No one can be that gullible and believe industries will really self-police themselves to the extent needed to keep pollution under control.
March 29th, 2011 at 9:34 am
“Sorry, regulations aren’t avoidable if we want to breath clean air and drink clean water.”
bullsht.
Taking growth into consideration our air is even cleaner today than it was 30 years ago.
It sall bullsht meant to make you buy crap.
EPA has outlived its purpose
March 29th, 2011 at 9:35 am
And EPA regulations that cut into some corporate polluter’s profits aren’t the same thing as “trashing our economy.” I can get hit with a fine just for leaving a piece of trash on the ground, why do conservatives always want corporations to skate out on any responsibilities they have? Most of the biggest corporations are already stashing their profits offshore to avoid taxes, again, something if a regular Joe tried would land them in jail.
March 29th, 2011 at 9:42 am
“And EPA regulations that cut into some corporate polluter’s profits aren’t the same thing as “trashing our economy.”
Its exactly the same thing.
Enough is enough.
March 29th, 2011 at 9:45 am
The EPA during its conception was a noble and useful operation.
Todays its just another way of collecting taxes under the guise of environmentalism/marxism.
wake up
March 29th, 2011 at 9:48 am
“Most of the biggest corporations are already stashing their profits offshore to avoid taxes, again, something if a regular Joe tried would land them in jail.”
Most corporations today already comply with EPA regulations that are useless, meant to garner revenues only, and cost jobs
March 29th, 2011 at 9:50 am
“Most of the biggest corporations are already stashing their profits offshore to avoid taxes,”
You mean like Obamas little buddy Caterpillar ?
They have to move operations to Switzerland or pay 66%
March 29th, 2011 at 9:59 am
The anti-environmental movement in this country seems to be growing in direct proportion with the rise of junk culture. People can barely speak or write anymore, the national dress code appears to be sloppy sweatpants and t-shirts, and music, tv, and film has become truly cringe-worthy.
The public apathy about pollution fits right in with this depressing state of affairs.
March 29th, 2011 at 10:06 am
“Taking growth into consideration our air is even cleaner today than it was 30 years ago.”
This is very true Micky. And due in large part to the EPA.
March 29th, 2011 at 10:35 am
Yeah TA, that was east pickins huh ?
Unfortunately you forgot the part/point where I said they’ve outlived their purpose.
“The anti-environmental movement in this country”
cry me a river.
If you cant see the scams behind environmentalists and their overreaching regulations these days you’re a fool
March 29th, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Ginnie,
There is a HUGE difference between combating pollution and this current EPA nonsense.
For starters, you do realize that it was Richard Nixon, that EVIL Republican, who started the EPA? He also started ERDA, Energy Research and Development Agency, which was to be the NASA of developing alternative energy systems, such as wind, solar, tidal, etc. That all went down the drain when Carter disbanded ERDA and formed the Dept of Energy.
Do you really think our environment is safer with people forced to use lightbulbs filled with mercury??? HELLOOOO???
Carbon Dioxide should not be a ‘greenhouse gas’ that the EPA can regulate. If you’re worried about CO2 in your home, then buy some house plants. Plants LOVE CO2! To them it’s like, well, like Oxygen is to us mammals. They need it, they want it.
March 29th, 2011 at 2:53 pm
After reading & agreeing with #18 & #19 I need not say more(unless something really dumb is posted by a moonbat)!
March 29th, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Andy, of course I know that the EPA was formed under Nixon’s watch. It’s the biggest gripe that conservatives today have about Nixon.
As for your reasoning why carbon dioxide not being regulated by the EPA, I know you are aware that many things can become toxic or dangerous in high enough concentrations. Just as too much Co2 in the atmosphere has a dangerous greenhouse effect, too much in the blood stream can be poison to humans.
March 29th, 2011 at 3:25 pm
“too much Co2 in the atmosphere has a dangerous greenhouse effect,”
Not enough to have to run around wearing ass receptacles at 5000.00 a pop.
Seriously, can you point to any change to the environment or atmosphere as a result of todays CO2 emissions ?
Gee, no sht.
Who’d of thought that too much of anything could be harmful.
I guess if you fell in a 1000 gallon vat of Mayonnaise and suffocated we could ban Mayo also.
Heres a little statistical reaffirmation of this bullsht
Check out what Dr. Kevin Trenberth himself says in his Rocky Mountains News response: “Gore’s statement that ice-sheets melting in Greenland or the West Antarctic would raise sea level by 20 feet is correct, although it was misleading that he did not put a time-frame on this.”
So you have to ask: why didn’t Gore put a time-frame on it?
Answer: a twenty foot increase would, all things remaining equal, take millennia.
Dr. Trenberth himself once stated:
“temperatures would have to remain 5.5 degrees Celsius higher than today’s for several millennia before the Greenland ice sheet would lose even half of its ice. The Greenland ice sheet has in fact recently thickened by 2 inches per year – a total of 20 inches in 10 years” (Johannesen et al., 2005).
Is that, as Dr. Trenberth says, merely “misleading” on Gore’s part?
Or is it an outright prevarication?
Does Al Gore buy carbon credits ?
Nuff said
March 29th, 2011 at 3:41 pm
I tried not to get involved, but here we go…
“As for your reasoning why carbon dioxide not being regulated by the EPA, I know you are aware that many things can become toxic or dangerous in high enough concentrations. Just as too much Co2 in the atmosphere has a dangerous greenhouse effect, too much in the blood stream can be poison to humans.”
For a human to be contaminated to a point that CO2 is toxic is a stretch. If obama and the libs are so fixed on saving us from carbon dioxide why don’t they stop doing business with China and India until they get their environmental issues in order? Tree seeds are cheap too.
Personally, I believe this has nothing to do with global warming or saving the planet, it’s all about $$$$$$$$, and it has been exposed for what it is. Furthermore, to do something like this without being able to find a balance between a prospering economy and keeping the environment clean once more shows us the inability to lead by obama, even though his true intention is money, not the environment.
March 29th, 2011 at 3:52 pm
“I tried not to get involved, but here we go…”
You cant “NOT” get involved.
Environmentalism is the religion of the left where they are hell bent on proving its creator exists.
Gerbil warming is a far greater threat than radical Islam
March 29th, 2011 at 3:53 pm
I suppose, Ginnie, if you are living inside a sealed structure, then CO2 might be an issue. But for the rest of us, it’s not a problem.
BTW, the big problems conservatives have with Nixon was his Wage and Price controls. Or, if you’re a gold bug like me, his abolishing the last thread of the gold standard tied to the dollar.