THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XII, Issue # 154, August 12, 2010
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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THE EPA MUST BE STOPPED!
By Alan Caruba
EPA-PROPOSED REGULATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE: A FRONTAL ATTACK ON THE AMERICAN ECONOMY -- A POLICY
PROPOSAL BASED ON ENVIRONMENTALIST IDEOLOGY & GLOBAL WARMING ALARMIST PROPAGANDA -- NO SCIENTIFIC
JUSTIFICATION FOR GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS INTO THE ATMOSPHERE -- THE
ENDEAVOR TO PUT YET ANOTHER HUGE SECTOR OF THE U.S. ECONOMY UNDER THE THUMB OF THE MOST INSIDIOUS
EXPONENTS OF THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX & ENEMIES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT
FULL STORY:
On August 12, 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency sent out a press release, “EPA Proposes Rules on Clean Air
Act Permitting for Greenhouse Gas Emissions.”
It is a frontal attack on the U.S. economy, which is currently in the throes of a decline that has not been seen since the
Great Depression.
If the EPA succeeds in this Big Lie, the provision of affordable energy in America will cease.
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing two rules to ensure that businesses planning to build new,
large facilities or make major expansions to existing ones will be able to obtain Clean Air Act permits that address their
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.”
The Clean Air Act does not cover carbon dioxide (CO2), which the EPA deems the primary GHG. This is because CO2
poses no threat to the environment and, indeed, is a vital and essential element of the environment, insofar as all
vegetation from a blade of grass to a giant Sequoia tree is dependent on it for growth.
Moreover, the proposed regulation of CO2 is based on the global warming fraud, which says that CO2 is responsible
for a significant warming of the planet. There is not a scintilla of proof of this and, indeed, the Earth is presently in one
of its natural cycles of cooling, not warming.
Thus, there is no scientific justification for the regulation of carbon dioxide, no matter how many times the EPA says
there is.
The EPA release says “projects that will increase GHG emissions substantially will require an air permit.”
If American industry, particularly the targeted “power plants and oil refineries,” are required to get GHG permits, it will
put yet another huge sector of the nation’s economy under the thumb of the most insidious exponents of the global
warming fraud, enemies of any economic growth.
“The Tailoring Rule covers large industrial facilities like power plants and oil refineries that are responsible for 70
percent of the GHGs from stationary sources,” says the EPA news release.
What it doesn’t say is that this power to regulate does not exist in the present Clean Air Act.
If the Tailoring Rule goes into effect, it will cause electricity costs to skyrocket, along with gasoline prices and those
of all other oil derivatives. It will utterly wreck the U.S. economy, which is already in dire straits.
If an invading nation had imposed these kinds of restrictions on Americans, we would be in the streets with guns and
any other means to fight them.
There is NO global warming. Carbon dioxide plays NO role in this non-event.
This is regulation by deception, by lies, by the arrogance of environmentalists who view the human race as a cancer
on the planet.
And, naturally, they have waited until Congress has gone on recess to “propose” this attack on the nation.
Take action! Contact your Representatives and Senators. Drown the White House in protests.
The EPA must be stopped!
© Alan Caruba
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
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& Natural Resources
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& the Future of Human Life & Civilization on the Planet:
Science, Ideology, & Public Policy
Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, commentator and business and science writer,
he is the Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about "scare campaigns" designed to influence
public opinion and public policy.
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