“The Obama-EPA plans to move full speed ahead to implement this agenda if President Obama wins a second term,” Inhofe writes. “These rules taken together will inevitably result in the elimination of millions of American jobs, drive up the price of gas at the pump even more, impose construction bans on local communities and essentially shut down American oil, natural gas and coal production.”
Here’s just one job crushing tidbit from the report:
The report also singles out pending federal regulations on such issues as farm dust, air quality, coal ash and water-quality in Florida.
The ozone standard if enacted would cost at least $90 billion annually and would eliminate 7.4 million jobs, the report states, citing federal analysis.
The looming regulatory onslaught is expected to proceed unimpeded in a lame duck term of a president who has already shown himself to be so oblivious to the consequences of his ideology that he still counts green “investments” as part of his successes. These were mentioned by President Obama during the second debate, which occurred the very same week as a another round of bad news about them was crashing around him.
This administration quickly looked to the EPA as a way to bypass the legislative process and, fortunately, met with at least some resistance in the first term.
A second term may actually see tilting at windmills instituted as policy.
If Obama goes all the way with this, implements cap and trade through the EPA, causes power shortages and blackouts across the country, gets his $8/gal gas, and all the rest of it, the president and congress elected in 2016 will probably have run on a platform of abolishing the EPA all together. Just like with healthcare reform, the Obama people are too blinded by ideology to see when they’re over reaching.
Back in 2005 we ran out of money while constructing a new Church to replace an aging facility that could not be made more accessible to elderly and handicapped parishioners. Thus we decided to postpone the construction of the bell tower, which was also to house a stairway and elevator to the community center on the ground floor of the split level complex. Now that we have raised additional funds our pastor announced today that the original plans would have to be completely re-drawn to the tune of $30,000 in additional costs due to recent EPA regulations. That’s $125 per family.
I am amazed anything still gets build in America.
Damn good reason to vote for Romney just by itself.
You can’t build no stinkin’ churches. What is ya, bitter or somethin’ ?
On the other hand, if you were planning to build a mosque, our government will provide you every assistance (and any zoning waivers and such) that you require!
Have a nice day! (allahu akbar, or whatever it is the ragheads say).
USEPA has more true-believer type communists than Moscow in 1955.