You Have No Idea, America

If you've never lived in a truly Blue state, or have no experience with a genuinely activist EPA - just wait. It looks as though you are about to find out. Don't be surprised if you start seeing more states looking at Tenth Amendment resolutions. The price of doing business in America is about to go up, assuming they don't simply shut you down. The EPA in a Blue State makes the IRS look business-friendly.

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday formally declared carbon dioxide and five other heat-trapping gases to be pollutants that threaten public health and welfare, setting in motion a process that for the first time in the United States will regulate the gases blamed for global warming.

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[WBestPresisdentEver]

There will be a huge fight over this. WATCH, wait and see !

These people do nto care about "We the People"

This has turned into an APPEASEMENT Adminastration. Every special interest group across America has been appeased by Obama to date.
I wonder if he and them have a tingel running up and down their legs now ?

And Zars ???? A way to get around having to be exposed by questions and being approved by congress. The crooks are getting in by the dozens now. These people that have taken over now are mobsters.

[MarkJ]

I guess the EPA hasn't yet figured out that America may well-- collectively decide that the EPA is the biggest "polluter" of all...and get rid of it.

Junk science. Junk bureaucrats. Junk department.

[13yankeebravo]

In Minnesota we have both the EPA and the DNR also known as Damm Near Russian. What one does not cover the other one does.

[gus]

There is no evidence that these gasses trap heat.
Show me the evidence. The planet has cooled over the last decade.
Keep you mother fu@#$ng religion off of my car and my business liberals.

[Calypso Jones]

Yankee...why do minnesotans put up with this stuff. I have heard that people are leaving that state right and left...well mostly right.

[Reginald Swain]

Just wait until they turn their gaze towards neighborhood bakeries. Because they will, with a vengeance. See, yeast gives off CO2 and that they can regulate the heck out of. Say goodbye to specialty bread, cakes, pies, cookies, lemon bars... And jobs.

Lots and lots and lots of jobs. Because breweries, bars, restaurants, tortilla factories, and anyhting else that produces food will now have an additional federal layer of regulation - on top of food safety. Ranches and farms too. With the new NAIS and HR875, everything that makes, hauls, or cooks food also comes under new fed regulations.

Do you cut wood? EPA. Burn wood, paper, gasoline, use chainsaws? Lawnmowers? Anything other than electric marital aids? EPA has you now.

If a business produces any product other than software, the EPA now has you. And will strangle your business until you throw up your hands and fire everyone.

[put]

I'm over bitching and complaining. We won't last until 2012. Our local governments need to start looking carefully at things. I'm willing to sacrifice.

[Rich K]

If I said what I really wanted to say about now Is be getting a visit from DHS, So I wont. But know this; We are truly fucked over when this thing plays out and if the GOP guys in congress dont manage to stop this in any way possible.I cant think of a more serious threat to freedom than what this usurpation represents if caried out to its natural ends.Have a nice day in your caves folks.

[Mike]

Is the E.P.A. going to limit the number of times per day that I can exhale?

Morons....

[Stephen E. Morgan]

It's going to be interesting to see how the Federal Government will respond to a full scale revolt against the EPA as well as the Fed as a whole. It's like 1773 all over again with basically same situation but different players!

Signed

RightWinged Extremist

[Mark_0454]

According to CBO, the administration is planning on raising about $366 billion a year from this cap and trade. There are about 300 million people in the US. That's over a grand each.

[Gracie]

Mark - you identify the point of the exercise: taking from citizens who have to give to others. It's not about weather, nature, or the environment. It's about money. Only citizens can tell the grabbers to stop grabbing. Lesson from the Tea Parties: citizens have to start at the bottom of the political pyramid and tell their neighbors who they elect to local office that they want it different.

The message to state officials is 10th Amendment enforcement Now.

[Mark_0454]

Part of the problem is putting a price on this. Olbermann says it will cost $31.00 a year in extra electric bills for each family. I suspect that this number includes the rebates families are supposed to get to make up for the higher electric bills. I find it hard to believe that if we send thousands of dollars per family to the government for them to send back to us as rebates, that some of it won't get lost along the way. It is best to break it down to the simplest numbers. The fed's expect to get $366 billion. There are a little over 300 million Americans in the US. That means a little over $1,000 each to support this nonsense. Any rebate programs after that are wishful thinking.

[mark l.]

this is going to turnout worse than healthcare for clinton in 94.

the idea of taxation to save the world a hundred years from now, is inconsistent with our current budgetary shortfall, and our massive shortfalls that will occur in the next 20-30 years.

"Just one-out-of-three voters (34%) now believe global warming is caused by human activity, the lowest finding yet in Rasmussen Reports national surveying."

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/environment/energy_update

the carbon tax is still born. if dems want to spend their politcal juice making the corpse move around, they are wasting their time and effort. I think universal healthcare is possible, but the carbon tax will weaken the dems position. either one is potential back breaker, but together, this is a recipe on how to lose the house in a landslide.

[Mark_0454]

There is a pretty good debate about global warming from the John Locke Foundation. Go to about 5:30 to see how the models compare to actual observations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACo2OCSJnBI&feature=PlayList&p=DF6F5900C47A9E26&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2

[Terry Gain]

As we enter out third straight year of global cooling the left again proves that for them ideology trumps everything. Remember, when it becomes undeniable that the earth is cooling, it was conservatives who refused to buy the AGW hype.

[Terry Gain]

State run universal health care would be bad for the nation, but good for the GOP. It would rob the Donkey's of their principal policy plank.