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Oh To Be King

November 28, 2010 at 8:27 amCategory:Obama

Many Americans thought Henry Waxman’s Cap and Trade nightmare was dead. While Team Obama may no longer be able to push through another 2000+ page piece of job-destroying legislation, the Administration can use Executive Orders to implement many of the specifics of the legislation via changes in the regulatory policies.

The King Speaks

Recently, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued partial guidance to increase ethanol content in gasoline to 15%, even though ethanol’s supposed benefits have been solidly debunked. Studies by the EPA have shown that ethanol increases carbon emissions, drives up costs of corn and food products, hinders engine efficiency, and does little to make our nation more energy independent.

In short, the EPA’s ethanol policy is a ploy, designed to prop up a failed industry, with yet another multi-billion dollar bailout from taxpayers.

EPA quietly announced this decision that will result in huge increases in subsidies to the ethanol industry while forcing Americans to buy a product that they don’t want. Nor was there any acknowledgement within the Obama Administration that the unintended consequence of a15% mandate on ethanol will almost certainly drive up food costs on everything from beef to cereal, to tortillas.

Higher food prices represent a new tax on all Americans as we are forced to pay more for corn-based food products, so that Obama can continue to subsidize the ethanol industry.

Retaliation

EPA recently issued a strategic plan for the next five years, Fiscal Year 2011-2015 EPA Strategic Plan – that will cost over a trillion dollars to implement. The plan advances retaliatory mandates that allow President Obama to punish organizations that oppose his flawed policies and donate heavily to Republicans.

For example, on page 44, the EPA unveils its new plan to criminalize violations of the agency’s mandates and has targeted 4 industries–cement plants, coal-fired utilities, glass plants and animal feeding operations, all industries that have, traditionally, donated heavily to Republicans.

It is hard not to consider that the Obama Administration’s actions may be politically motivated, since Americans have seen the Democrat party using this same kind of demagoguery with Koch Industries and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce both which have chosen to support GOP candidates and Republican job-creation policies.

Nor is the EPA the only Federal Agency working hard to crank up a slew of new regulations which will soon sprout like crabgrass in the spring. Take for example the new rulings that will give the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) broad new powers to require all financial institutions, hedge funds, investment firms, banks to set up hiring quotas for minorities. Forbes

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Dire Straights

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October 6, 2010 at 7:29 amCategory:Power Abuse

– Water is our life – it's our jobs and it's our food –

The Environmentalists are destroying this country and millions of lives with it.

Because of them and their little delta smelt fish, water was literally shut off to farms in central California, one the richest agricultural regions in the country.

Unemployment rates are now 40% because of the water being shut off. Hundreds of acres of crops are now dead. One million acres of fields and orchards also have no above ground water supply. People have to go to food banks for food. Fruits and vegetable prices have skyrocketed in central California.

Environmentalists are tripping over themselves to preserve every species that crawls, squirms, swims or flys (sic) but they are content to let humans die," claimed Nunes. " And now they have a government that agrees with them. This Congress and our President have chosen fish over people in my state."

– Obfuscation –

Here comes Harry Reid and his Energy and Climate legislation Bill. Just call it what it is – a huge tax on energy that will hit all of us. Yet the kool-aid drinkers still parrot Obama's lies about taxes not increasing for those who make less that $250,000.

So, does that mean that you, Obama, will pay my new electric and gas bills? Will you pick up the tab for gasoline and diesel fuel too?

I thought not – so you ARE a liar.

Senator Reid’s twenty-pound bill will be laden with lofty language about “clean energy,” energy conservation, “green jobs,” reducing “dangerous” power plant emissions, ending our “addiction” to oil, creating a renewable economy, and saving the planet from “imminent climate disaster.”

And all that climate crap is just that – crap.

The IPCC Lies.

Suppressed Climate Report

– Dire Straights –

So, what is in our future as Obama and his minions impose their will on us. From the June 17 report by Charles River Associates:

Increase average gasoline and diesel prices by up to 80% in five years, and 170% within ten years – sending regular gasoline prices soaring to nearly $5 per gallon by 2020 and $7.50 per gallon by 2025 (assuming other international price pressures remain unchanged);

Spur sharp cost increases for petrochemicals in plastics, pharmaceuticals and other vital products;

Reduce employment and consumer demand significantly, by increasing the cost of transporting people, equipment, supplies, raw materials, food and finished products – for work, school, healthcare, business, manufacturing, vacation and other purposes;

Cut business investment by $200-320 billion annually, compared to the no-LCFS baseline;

Slash gross domestic product by $410-750 billion annually by 2025;

Cost 2.3 million to 4.5 million American jobs, including up to 1.5 million in manufacturing and 3.0 million in the service sector; and

Force household purchasing power downward by $1,400 to $2,400 for a family of four by 2025 – impacting minority, elderly and other low and fixed income families worst of all.

Be alert. Speak out. And beware of energy and climate dictators and charlatans, and any lame duck session that may come after citizens vote to replace many of the control freaks on Capitol Hill.

Cap and Trade Tax, pt2

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July 2, 2009 at 8:48 amCategory:Science

Al Gore toon

This huge tax bill is totally unnecessary. The stress and pain caused for most of us is all for nothing.

The Global Warming Hoax/ Fraud

In the face of name-calling and worse, I have always maintained that Al Gore perpetrated the biggest scam on us and the world. What caused us to lap it up like Pavlovian dogs? Say the words "planet" "save" and we all salivate and believe everything we are told. How ludicrous. How stupid!

The science, the real science, behind this global warming stupidity is now collapsing. The most reliable satellite weather data shows that global atmospheric temperatures have declined over the last 11 years — that means the temps are getting colder!

Science also shows that the temperature patterns of the 20th century correlate with natural causes, not this global warming nonsense.

Temperatures did not increase steadily throughout the last century — even though carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases did.

Temperatures in the U.S. were stable until 1920, and then soared to produce the hottest decade of the century during the 1930s — all way before the rapid increases in greenhouse gas emissions. Gee, Al, how do you account for that?

The climate then cooled during most of the period from 1940 until about 1977. Temperatures climbed upward from 1977 until 1998, except for a sharp downturn from about 1988 until about 1995. Temperatures are down again over the past decade — down over the last 11 years. It’s cycles folks! Nothing to worry about.

Forget that hysteria of floating polar bears and ice caps melting (oh the sky is falling) The polar ice caps are not melting. The melting of glaciers still going on is because those glaciers are from the last age age — which ended (thankfully) and, therefore, not due to global warming. Sea levels rose 400 feet, but over the last 18,000 years! Furthermore, the rise has been decelerating over the past 5,000 years, and now is 1.8 mm per year – millimeters, regardless of global temperature fluctuations. What that means is the oceans would rise 9 inches over the next 100 years. Oooo, watch out for those floods!

This record is more consistent with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, a long-term pattern of ocean currents that turns from cold to warm back to cold every 20 to 30 years, and with variations in solar activity, particularly sunspots. Indeed, our current accelerating temperature decline correlates with an extended trend of slowing sunspot activity, which may portend another Little Ice Age, as happened from the early 1400s to the late 1800s. Indeed, a full-blown ice age is now overdue based on historical patterns. –Spectator

In April, the Polish Academy of Sciences published a document challenging man-made global warming….Dr. Kiminori Itoh, a Japanese environmental physical chemist who contributed to a U.N. climate report, dubs man-made warming "the worst scientific scandal in history." Norway’s Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, decries it as the "new religion."– WSJ