Punish Your Enemy, Crush the Poor?

EPA's New CO2 Rule Turns Christian Ethics Upside Down
 

BY E. CALVIN BEISNER, CP OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
(Originally Published in the Christian Post on June 13, 2014)

 

June 16, 2014–Jesus taught that we're to love our enemies and look after the poor. But a new rule from the Obama Administration seems to fly in the face of both mandates.

By now practically everyone in America must know that the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) new proposed rule on carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants will cost a lot and achieve next to nothing.

Cost? About $50 billion a year in lost production to the U.S. economy, accompanied by electricity rates that-in fulfillment of then-candidate Barack Obama's campaign promise-will "necessarily skyrocket," in turn driving up the prices of everything we make with electricity (which is just about everything).
Achievement? Insofar as reducing global warming-the purported rationale-so little as to be indiscernible. Ever.

So why in the world would EPA propose the rule? To read the complete article

Well, if you believe EPA, it's because reducing CO2 emissions-which will be achieved mainly by shutting down coal-fired power plants-will have the happy side benefit of reducing other emissions that (unlike CO2, which is good for plants and everything that eats them or eats what eats them) really are harmful.

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