The latest proposed regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will force the closing of five American Electric Power (AEP) coal-fired power plants – THAT’S FIVE POWER PLANTS. The only option to closing is spending at least $8 BILLION renovating the plants to meet the newest guidelines. The legislation that Obama cannot get through Congress, is instead, being foisted on us through EPA regulations.
…by bureaucratic decree what he could not achieve through the legislative process: force Americans to stop using fossil fuels to generate the energy that our society must have to function on a daily basis. The EPA’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule for power plants will take giant steps toward doing exactly that.
Despite the fact the mercury pollution levels have been decreasing worldwide for two decades, the EPA’s proposed rule would force power companies to install costly new mercury-scrubbing equipment on existing coal-power plants. The EPA says this will reduce mercury emissions from coal plants by 91 percent. But the EPA’s own Regulatory Impact Analysis also concedes that the new regulation will lead to “new lower levels of consumption as a result of higher market prices.” That is bureaucratese for saying Americans will have a lower standard of living because they will have to pay more for energy.
Not to worry about the coal plants closing and the jobs lost. With mercury levels already decreasing, the administration says 30,000 new jobs will be created to watch/monitor mercury…as the levels decrease!
Perhaps you remember in 2008 when Obama told us exactly how it would be under his regime:
In January 2008 he told the San Francisco Chronicle, “Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. … Coal power plants, natural gas, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.”
Message to Republicans: When you take the microphone, you MUST tell us the exact EPA regulation that is killing jobs, or the tax code that is killing jobs, or the banking regulations that are killing jobs, or the Affordable Care Act provision that is killing jobs, or the lawsuits that are killing jobs, or the unionization that is killing jobs, and definitely, tell us the stories of the hijacking of American energy dependence and the laws and regs that keep us from drilling.
Give the name and number of the reg, law or code, when it went into effect, and name the number of jobs being lost and where. Don’t be vague. Be specific – and do it over and over and over on every issue.
Here is an example if a stat the entire Republican leadership should be quoting from Speaker John Boehner:
According to the Small Business Administration (SBA), ‘The smallest firms (fewer than 20 employees) spend 36 percent more per employee than larger firms to comply with federal regulations’ – or roughly $10,585 per employee for all federal regulations.
If that data is heard often – $10,585 PER EMPLOYEE – cost to a Small Business owner – it would be remembered with horror by any reasonable American.
We are begging you to be clear and specific and loud. Get the message out. Our future depends on it. Thanks to Weasel Zippers for the tip. Linked by Si Vis Pacem (which means “If you seek peace, seek first liberty,” – love that so very much) – read more commentary on coal and mercury.
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Right. So let me get this straight…
We’re shutting down coal-fired plants because of trace levels of Hg…
BUT, we must purchase and install expensive curly-fry lightbulbs directly into our homes – lightbulbs that contain substantive, dangerous f!!!ing quantities of Hg. “To help the environment and stave-off anthropogenic global warming!”
It is time, folks, to demand the de-funding and retirement of the entire EPA. The whole thing is a freaking out-house whose geniuses work in the basement.
Pardon my loss of cool here, but the EPA (aka The Department of Environmental Justice) is no longer just a lame, expensive boondoggle. I want my hard-earned tax money back.
[...] We’re shutting down coal-fired plants because of trace levels of Hg… [...]
Wow could the EPA leave companies alone for once. The administration while doing its job correctly is doing the exact opposite of what it promises. Jobs! Closing the plants means more people unemployed. The coal plants are providing reliable electric power sources and electric power to hundreds of people everyday across the country. Coal is our number 1 energy production in the US but we sell most of it to China when it be cheaper to just keep it here and use it ourselves. It costs us less that 5 cents to run a microwave for 1 hour off coal power but we’d rather send the coal to China for the money they offer. It doesn’t make since to close plants when your opening new ones like the surry coal plant in virginia. Anyways great article and sad to see Obama get his way again.
Who elected the EPA. Where is our voice in the EPA. This is what I don’t get, we live in a country where we the people rule, and yet we have the EPA.
Being a sculptor, and using the type of clay that takes a small amount of heat to soften the clay so that I can work with it, now, after January, I will be stuck with piggly wiggly lights to soften my clay. I won’t be able to use the tungsten lights anymore. Are they replacing spot lights to? I have been stocking up on tungsten lights for the past few months. I hope to have enough saved up, so I won’t have to worry about how to soften my clay so I can sculpt. I mean I’m going on 66 years old.. How many years do I have to store up for.. All because we’ve been dictated to. DICTATED.
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[...] In an earlier post, I said this: Message to Republicans: When you take the microphone, you MUST tell us the exact EPA regulation that is killing jobs, or the tax code that is killing jobs, or the banking regulations that are killing jobs, or the Affordable Care Act provision that is killing jobs, or the lawsuits that are killing jobs, or the unionization that is killing jobs, and definitely, tell us the stories of the hijacking of American energy dependence and the laws and regs that keep us from drilling. [...]
[...] In an earlier post, I said this: Message to Republicans: When you take the microphone, you MUST tell us the exact EPA regulation that is killing jobs, or the tax code that is killing jobs, or the banking regulations that are killing jobs, or the Affordable Care Act provision that is killing jobs, or the lawsuits that are killing jobs, or the unionization that is killing jobs, and definitely, tell us the stories of the hijacking of American energy dependence and the laws and regs that keep us from drilling. [...]
[...] In an earlier post, I said this: Message to Republicans: When you take the microphone, you MUST tell us the exact EPA regulation that is killing jobs, or the tax code that is killing jobs, or the banking regulations that are killing jobs, or the Affordable Care Act provision that is killing jobs, or the lawsuits that are killing jobs, or the unionization that is killing jobs, and definitely, tell us the stories of the hijacking of American energy dependence and the laws and regs that keep us from drilling. [...]
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