Larger text
Smaller text
Print
E-mailThe EPA & CO2: Suicide by government
Government does not get any more insidious than this.
As expected the Obama administration's Environmental Protection Agency formally declared that "greenhouse gases" pose a threat to human health, must be reduced and can be regulated.
If greedy Wall Streeters couldn't kill the economy, the EPA surely will.
The supposedly innocuous side of this declaration is ... wait, there's nothing uninjurious about it. For this proposal effectively will place the EPA in charge of the American economy.
Not simply automobiles will be affected. And not just large factories will be expected to toe the line of the Greenhouse Police. "Fast-food franchises, apartment blocks, hospitals -- you name it -- will find themselves subject to EPA bureaucracy," along with just about every small business, reminds Iain Murray, writing in National Review Online.
This not only means that the cost of doing business will rise -- and with it, jobs will be lost -- the net "benefit" of the reductions in "greenhouse gases" essentially will have no benefit to the environment.
That last postulation assumes that "climate change," "global warming" or whatever the shamans of the genre want to call it, is real. The evidence is growing that the Earth warms and cools in cycles and that there's nothing that man can do to change it. (Why would he?)
And once again, America prepares to commit suicide.
