Obama to Seek 30% Cut in Emissions at Power Plants

[libertyjam]

You might want to go watch it again. They did a very good job of explaining exactly why solar (which existed at the time of discovery of oil) did not take hold. It was the cheapness of and availability of oil over solar at the time and how that led to a boom. Nothing in that episode was wrong or misleading. If anything I think it was one of the best ways I have seen the greenhouse effect explained.

Wow, solar was around in the late 1800's? news to me.

 

[Ranger29860]

Wow, solar was around in the late 1800's? news to me.

Yep ,
http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/156005/

 

[2young2vote]

My family's small store already has $2000+ electric bills in the summer. A 30% increase would be horrible for us, but we can probably expect more than that.

This is typical of government - screw over the little people.

 

[CaptUSA]

This is all politics.

The growth of carbon emissions in China over the last 5 years is more than 5 times the amount that would be reduced under this plan in 16 years.

It may remove a talking point about the US from the EU, but it will severely hurt us without helping the environment one bit. If you think we should dramatically alter our quality of life (which is really one of the only things America has left) in order to have a talking point, then you are already a lost cause.

 

[jkr]

pardon me, but isnt this SIEGE?

 

[Lucille]

THE OBAMA DOCTRINE: AT ANY COST
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2014/06/06/the-obama-doctrine-at-any-cost/

“Of course, increasing energy costs drives up the price of literally all goods and services, in addition to destroying jobs, so this only scratches the surface. What we are witnessing is the deliberate lowering of the American standard of living out of ideologically motivated malice by executive fiat.

The highest price of all won’t come in terms of dollars, but will be paid in something more precious still: liberty. Obama and other extremists in the government tried to impose this regulation through legislative means but failed. So Congress was shoved aside; the rules are to be imposed by unelected and unaccountable EPA bureaucrats. The division of powers established by the Constitution is collapsing because Congress evidently does not have the character to defend its domain from usurpation by the executive branch.”
--Dave Blount on Obama’s killing coal directives

How many more times does Obama need to shit on the U.S. Constitution, ignore Congressional and Judicial requirements, and cover-up his administrations crimes before someone with balls will step forward and start impeachment proceedings. Obama is a dangerous sociopathic tyrant who needs to be removed from office before he destroys what remains of this country.

Obama and his extremist sycophant followers do not care about making your life better. They know their rules, regulations, laws, and procedures will not actually do anything to save the planet. They want control over your lives at any cost. Their control freak initiatives are designed to provide government with complete control over every thing you do. Destroying the coal powered plants that currently provide 40% of our electricity, with no legitimate alternative, will have one and only one impact – driving the price of electricity higher. These communists dropped out of economics class in college to take classes in community organizing. The law of supply and demand is inconsequential to ideologues with an agenda of complete control.
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These rules and regulations will add an average of $145 annually to all 117 million household electricity bills in the United States. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) says closing coal plants will drive up natural gas prices by 150% over 2012 levels by 2040, this cost rise will cause electricity prices to jump seven percent by 2025 and 22% by 2040. Obama and his minions are hanging their hats on the shale gas storyline of hundreds of years of natural gas. The entire storyline is a sham. The propaganda is false. Killing coal will drive the price of natural gas sky high and create shortages, blackouts, and misery for the American people.
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Everything Obama supports is designed to take money out of your pocket and put it into the hands of government drones who think they know how to spend your money better than you. While Obama destroys our energy delivery system and further impoverishes senior citizens and the poor, the government grows ever more powerful and infiltrates every crevice of our lives. Our liberties, freedoms, and right to live our own lives is stripped away.

As Obama and his apparatchiks destroy our economy in the name of saving the planet and providing “free” healthcare for the masses, China and India bring 4 coal powered electricity plants online every week.

Global demand for coal is expected to grow to 8.9 billion tons by 2016 from 7.9 billion tons this year. China is expected to add about 160 new coal-fired plants to the 620 operating now, within four years. During that period, India will add more than 46 plants. The U.S. has the largest supply of coal on the planet and we will be shutting plants as China and India build them. How exactly is the planet benefiting from this?

Lastly, do you find it interesting that the regions with the least economic impact from Obama’s regulations are areas controlled by Democrats and those impacted the most are controlled by Republicans? I’m sure it’s just a coincidence. Obama wouldn’t play politics with our energy.

 

[alucard13mm]

I got a question. Are sulfur compounds produced by coal fire plants an aerosol? I thought sulfur compounds would cool the earth down, similar to what a volvanoe would do.

 

[oyarde]

My family's small store already has $2000+ electric bills in the summer. A 30% increase would be horrible for us, but we can probably expect more than that.

This is typical of government - screw over the little people.

I had guys who work for me who were at bills equivalent to a weeks pay last winter.