Well, they did it. In what would pass for farce in a sane world, the EPA has declared it has the power to regulate our air. This is not a regulation to prevent harmful pollutants that would destroy our air, but rather that the air itself has been declared a harmful pollutant.
Whether or not you you find plausible the claims of global warming alarmists, this type of power grab should take your breath away.
As leaders of the world spew tons of carbon on route to Copenhagen to discuss how to prevent you from spewing tons of carbon by breathing, the EPA decided that the UN process smacked of ineffective democracy and took matters into their own hands.
By fiat, the EPA can regulate anything that produces CO2, presumably that includes every aspect of your lives. It is tiresome and pointless to continue to point out that the founding fathers would be rolling over in their graves, because the eco-nazis will eventually (many of them have already) come to the conclusion that the only real solution lies in many more graves, rolling or otherwise.
If CO2 is a pollutant then you are the polluter. You and your fellow mouth breathers are now big pollution, regardless of how many offsets you promise to purchase or trees you plant. The inescapable conclusion is that people are the problem and the problem must be reduced or eliminated.
That said, I have only one wish. Let’s not drag this out. Think of all the CO2 that will be expended over the next 20 or 30 years as we protest our liberties being taken away before you get around to taking our lives. Can we please cut to the chase and have this out now? In another 20-30 years, me and my five little carbon footprints will be holed up in Montana armed to the teeth teaching my little grand-carbon footprints how to whittle, spit, and field-strip an M16 bought on the Mexican black market.
But you, you environmentally conscious elite, will be old, peer reviewed, and childless. What chance will you stand against my brood then? No, your best chance is to take care of us now while you still have the zeal. Ordinarily, I would choose to wait you out, but I can’t stand the thought of the next generation’s slow death by a thousand cuts and all those millions of people sacrificed at the altar of eco-Marxism.
Either way, I promise you one thing. There will be a lot of heavy breathing before we are done. Regulate that. Gotta go now. Have to teach my kids how to field dress a polar bear.
December 8, 2009 at 1:14 pm
I saw this story while watching the news with my wife last night, and immediately exhaled myself to light-headedness.
Though I can't remember his name, ABC News spoke to a power company executive, who said that with new emissions regulations, the cost to produce one kW of electricity would go up from 4 cents to 8 cents. Which of course will be passed directly to the American public.
I suppose to the credit of the Democratic party, they are consistent: even during a recession, they still want to raise taxes.
December 8, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Well,
If they're going to tax emissions such as methane and CO2, we'll all be in trouble. Of course, shouldn't vegetarians be taxed more, because they have more, ahem, emissions due to the various legumes they ingest in large quantities? Not to mention, we omnivores are doing the planet a favor by eating cows, thereby reducing their methane emitting carcasses one roast at a time. We should get a tax credit for this.
Like my post, these proposed regulations are just so ridiculous on so many levels. But Patrick, you don't have to move out to Montana. Just move down to Virginia, where even in Northern Virginia where I live there are enough large families who cling to guns and the Catholic religion to make quite a stand for quite a while. Not to mention, having a large, armed, disciplined contingent so close to Washington DC might just dissuade the neo-Barbarians from crashing the gate too quickly.
December 8, 2009 at 2:05 pm
As Bruce Campbell says: "Come get some."
December 8, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Let's stage a civil protest of the EPA by all going over to the mall and yawning. Big.
December 8, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Matthew, you had me at Bruce Campbell. An "Army of Darkness" reference…I knew there was a reason I loved this blog. This EPA nonsense is just more of what I call the "Matrix Doctrine" (sorry for all the movie references). Where Agent Smith is lecturing the captured Morpheus about how humans are a disease and a plague that must be eradicated. The EPA might not say it in those words, but many of the greenies who support this baloney believe that and at the end of the day, we're just a bunch of carbon emitters and the less of us there are, the better.
December 8, 2009 at 3:00 pm
You know, I've been trying to get my dad to buy me a sword so I could work on modifying my fencing technique to work with heavier instruments. I think I will have him get a sharpened on.