Via the New York Times - EPA expected to regulate CO2. Now? Now? One of the most extensive regulatory rule makings in history?
I'll say that, again. Now? Why stimulate anything if you're going to run it into the ground?
The decision, which most likely would play out in stages over a period of months, would have a profound impact on transportation, manufacturing costs and how utilities generate power. It could accelerate the progress of energy and climate change legislation in Congress and form a basis for the United States’ negotiating position at United Nations climate talks set for December in Copenhagen.
We're going to hell fast, aren't we?
Posted by: Lala | Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 12:14 AM
still trying to figure the lib conservationists...
they can look at the hockey stick graph of global warming and find the planets doom in a hundred years, but they can't find anything similar in the hockey stick graph of debt that explodes over the next 30 years.
our most precious resource?
money. If feeds, clothes, houses, and heals us.
Posted by: mark l. | Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 12:26 AM
I hope all these people this crazed man has put in these postions go straight to hell. The sooner the better. They could care less about the cost of all this shit and how much it will end up costing US the consumer. Hell, my power bill is high enough now, and so is my natural gas bill and the price of gasoline will be part of this crap too. Either get a electric or or kind of car are you pay to play I guess. These people are out of their minds ! Like all people can aford this BS. We have lived this long without any problems. AL WHORE IS A GLOBAL WARMING PIMP !
DAMN THEM ALL AND THE DONKEYS THEY RODE IN ON. SCUMBAGS !
Frigging power hungry appeasers.
I wish bad things on all of them. Very bad things.
Sorry I feel this way.
Posted by: WBestPresidentEver | Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 01:24 AM
If obama were to get a real policy to reduce GLOBAL CO2...
pay for china's pollution control. They sure as hell won't.
We are scurrying to blow hundreds of billions to improve upon something that is approaching a limit, at least in the relative sense, to China.
China is the world leading polluter.
We could spend four times as much money on punishing/restricting business in the US, with at best, a 10% improvement.
Why not spend four times less to reduce the world's leading polluter by about 50%?
Is US CO2 more dangerous than Chinese?
Posted by: mark l. | Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 03:11 AM
Never have some many been scammed by so few for so much.
Posted by: Philip McDaniel | Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 07:07 AM
Those fires in Australia, which were the fault of the GREENS, probably wiped out every anti-pollution gain of the last 20 years.
Anyway, next they'll tell us to stop breathing, or breathe less.
Posted by: Lala | Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 07:54 AM
Well, there goes another 2,000 points off the Dow.
Meanwhile, these oh-so-greens keep a fleet of personal jets, maintained by the AIr Force out of DOD money, so they don't have to inhale your CO2 when they go on their quarterly vacation (see Pelosi & her horseholders in Rome).
Posted by: Kevin R. C. O'Brien | Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 10:49 AM
I recently bought a natural gas/propane generator and a year's worth of food. Please...please, I urge all of you to take steps to protect yourself. Now. Buy ammo for your guns, or buy guns and ammo if you have neither. But hurry the hell up, you're running out of time.
Posted by: templar knight | Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 10:50 AM
Dan, thanks a lot for your praise and your summary of the "Red Tories" post. I think the summary is such a helpful overview of the themes that I'm publishing a post on it LOL. And I say 'yes' to the comments here about the global warming totalitarians. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns. They're at a dead end. All they can think of doing is trying to get even greater control of society: Once we're all slaves to the state, then all our problems will be solved.
Sigh.
Posted by: Pundita | Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 01:26 PM
At the time I post this the dow sat at 7506. Thats one excited group of investors aint it!But when this goes down Im sure most all of them will head over to the carbon futures market for a quik fix to there loses over on wall street. Its the way of the future dont cha know.
Posted by: Rich K | Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 02:49 PM
I for the life of me can not figure out why they are getting so upset over plant food.
Posted by: 13yankeebravo | Friday, February 20, 2009 at 12:17 AM