EPA CO2 regs will haunt Democrats for years
Image via WikipediaWith the federal government set to regulate climate-altering gases from factories and power plants for the first time, the Obama administration and the new Congress are headed for a clash that carries substantial risks for both sides.Actually they are dealing with a misinterpretation of the law by the courts to even include CO2 as pollution. It is an absurd proposition that exhaling is pollution, yet that in essence is what is being suggested.
While only the first phase of regulation takes effect on Sunday, the administration is on notice that if it moves too far and too fast in trying to curtail the ubiquitous gases that are heating the planet it risks a Congressional backlash that could set back the effort for years.
But the newly muscular Republicans in Congress could also stumble by moving too aggressively to handcuff the Environmental Protection Agency, provoking a popular outcry that they are endangering public health in the service of their well-heeled patrons in industry.
“These are hand grenades, and the pins have been pulled,” said William K. Reilly, administrator of the environmental agency under the first President George Bush.
He said that the agency was wedged between a hostile Congress and the mandates of the law, with little room to maneuver. But he also said that anti-E.P.A. zealots in Congress should realize that the agency was acting on laws that Congress itself passed, many of them by overwhelming bipartisan margins.
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The big problem for the Democrats is that they have not made the sale on global warming as something that needs to be avoided. That is why there is little chance that most voters will object to Republicans attempting to restrain the EPA and the administration. Obama is about to make an even bigger mistake than he made with health care. He is going to insure that voters remember how he has ignored the will of the people to push liberalism that most voters do not want.
He is also going to drive up the cost of gasoline to above $5 a gallon just in time for the election in 2012. With he and Salazar doing everything within their power to strangle domestic production they are already driving up the price. It is not an accident. It is what they want to happen in order to make less efficient alternative energy look more competitive. They are also going to try to push us into vehicles we do not want. It is part of the Democrat control freak government agenda.
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