EPA

Representatives of the Gulf Power Co. say that the EPA’s new global warming mercury emissions rules could result in the shuttering of three of its current coal-fired power plants and bring higher energy prices to consumers.
According to Gulf Power official Jeff Rogers:

“We won’t know what the impact will be until the new rules come out and we can actually evaluate them. But our feeling is that coal-fired plants would be at risk."

The new rules could cost Gulf Power up to $2.5 billion and other divisions of the company as much as $18 billion to comply. The 400,000 customers of Gulf Power would see their electricity rates go up.

Gulf Power recently spent $500 million to build a scrubber plant in Pensacola that removes 80% of oxidized mercury. The new EPA standard could be 90%. The new scrubber plant wasn’t built to remove 90%.

If the EPA is so concerned about mercury emissions, why not ban mercury filled CFL bulbs? These bulbs will end up in landfills where the mercury will leach into rivers, underground aquifers, and eventually into the food chain. Nope instead, they're making us by them and not providing any place that will except the used ones for recycling.

It appears that the EPA is more concerned about pushing cap and trade restrictions than protecting the environment.

In Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland six coal-fueled power plants are being shut down by first Energy because the retrofitting the power plants will have to undergo to satisfy the EPA’s draconian rules is just too expensive to justify.

These shutdowns will cause the loss of over 500 jobs initially.

Douglas Gotham, director of the State Utility Forecasting Group, for instance, says that rate hikes are on the way in Indiana, as well, and all because of Obama’s onerous new EPA regulations.

This is exactly what Obama wants. In 2007, he sat down with the San Francisco Chronicle and said that he wanted to bankrupt the coal industry and that our rates would “necessarily skyrocket?"

This does not bode well for hybrid cars which rely on electricity, especially since 45% of U.S. power plants use coal.

Last September, EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution rule cost 500 jobs in Texas.

In his testimony, EPA Assistant Administrator Mathy Stanislaus admitted last April that jobs are not part of their determinations.

The EPA has declared carbon dioxide as a “pollutant."

If carbon dioxide is a “pollutant”, then each time we exhale, we are “polluting“ the environment. If the “pollutant”, carbon dioxide, is removed from the atmosphere, then photosynthesis will cease and plants will die. Without plants to produce oxygen, animals (including humans) will also die.

Ironically, global warming will still continue every 1500 years due to cyclic variations in the radiation emitted from the sun. (See “Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years,” by Fred singer and Dennis Avery.)

President O’Bama and global warming zealots are destroying the U.S. economy while not impacting global warming.

Thoughtsjustoffcenter: While the "global warming" idiots are trying to get everyone to go to some type of electric transportation mode. Hasn't anyone figured out the current electrical infrastructure will not handle all the electricity needed to keep the damn little cars charged up. It will cost billions to upgrade the US infrastructure and that money will come out of your, and my, pocket book. These little cars will only work in a city environment with lots of plug-in parking, to be made, available. How’s that going to work in the cities that all ready have “Brown Outs” and parking problems. I’m keeping my truck to pull/haul your little electric cars out of the ditches after a snow storm. Lastly, for those of your that didn't learn the sciences in Jr./Sr. High School, I suggest that you all read the articles found at "The Two Minute Conservative" blog site. Just do a search on the subject of "global warming" or CO2 as a trace gas in the atmosphere.