22 states sue Trump admin for rescinding Obama rule that would have forced electricity prices to triple
Yesterday 22 states, led by California and New York, sued the Trump administration for...mumble mumble. Fill in anything you can think of. Must be a day ending in "y", eh? But you need to understand this story, cuz it shows yet again how far liberals and Democrat pols are willing to go to get what they want, no matter if it costs you dearly.
This time the states were suing to try to block the Trump administration from rescinding some crippling rules enacted by the Obama administration on how electricity could be produced in the U.S.--rules Obama admitted would "necessarily cause the price of electricity to skyrocket."
Specifically: With great fanfare, in August of 2015 Obozo approvingly announced a 460-page "rule" by his EPA, titled "Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines." This by itself shows what lying sacks of shit the people pushing this were, cuz the damn thing is NOT simply a "guideline," and if a utility broke one of the gazillion rules the EPA put in the thing, they'd fine you into bankruptcy.
The issuance of this rule followed a necessary decree declaring carbon dioxide as a "pollutant." We'll get to that later. The rule also fulfilled a campaign promise Obama made to a group of wealthy donors in San Francisco, when he pledged to "bankrupt" any utility that tried to open a coal-fired powerplant.
The "rule" demanded that all electric utilities in the U.S. "modify" their facilities so that overall, they would emit 32% less CO2 than in 2005. The rule generously gave utilities several choices for how they could do this: they could use wind or solar, or "lower-carbon-dioxide-emitting natural gas," or they could "increase the generation efficiency of existing fossil fuel plants."
So no new nuclear powerplants, and no dams. "But we've been extremely generous in letting you choose from four wonderful options, comrade!"
Oh wait, I didn't mention the "magic bullet" that Obozo and the EPA created: They required every state to develop a plan to do what the "guidelines" [bullshit] demanded. And then they invoked what they intended as the magic phrase: "States may use regionally available low carbon generation sources when substituting for in-state coal generation, and [may] coordinate with other states to develop multi-state plans.
Ah. "Coordinate with other states to develop multi-state plans," y'say? Sure, that'll do the trick.
By now almost everyone realizes that wind and solar are intermittent--can't be relied on for continuous power. Natural gas plants are great, but because homes can use gas, the cost of electricity produced from burning gas is more than the cost when using coal. That's where "...will necessarily cause the price of electricity to skyrocket" comes in.
But what about the last option--"increasing the generation efficiency of existing fossil-fueled plants"? Why, simple, comrade: Just slap a "CO2 scrubber" on your boiler exhausts!
Ah. Gosh, it's so obvious. "Just slap a CO2 scrubber on..." Got it.
Of course contrary to the beliefs of leftists, the folks who operate utilities aren't stupid. They actually research how to improve things, constantly. They'd already looked at ways to do this, and had a good idea how much it would increase their cost per kilowatt-hour. Something like 300%.
They concluded that it would be less expensive--both for the utilities and for consumers--to just scrap vitually all coal-fired plants and build new gas-fired plants. Of course the cost of those new plants is always paid by consumers. But hey, it's worth it, right? Cuz if the U.S. doesn't scrap all its coal-fired plants the world will end in just ten years!
The utilities reported this to Obozo's EPA, which shrugged. "Not our problem, comrade."
Seriously, if you've every tried to read the actual text of any law, or the Code of Federal Regulations, you know how it's absolute rubbish, but this one is primo gibberish.
Anyway, Trump directed his EPA chief to reconsider the rule, and it was ultimately rescinded. Which is the basis for the new lawsuit just filed by 22 states.
See, that's what "resistance" is all about, comrade. If you wanna cripple a nation without firing a shot, cripple its economy by making electricity three times more costly. Output falls, prices rise, people starve, communists win. Just like Venezuela! It's really easy if you have a Marxist Muslim president, but really any Democrat will do, since they all believe global warming is fatal and unprecedented, and is caused by CO2 emitted by humans.
But the only people being punished are Americans. No buy-in from China or Russia or India. Cuz, fairness, comrade.
This time the states were suing to try to block the Trump administration from rescinding some crippling rules enacted by the Obama administration on how electricity could be produced in the U.S.--rules Obama admitted would "necessarily cause the price of electricity to skyrocket."
Specifically: With great fanfare, in August of 2015 Obozo approvingly announced a 460-page "rule" by his EPA, titled "Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines." This by itself shows what lying sacks of shit the people pushing this were, cuz the damn thing is NOT simply a "guideline," and if a utility broke one of the gazillion rules the EPA put in the thing, they'd fine you into bankruptcy.
The issuance of this rule followed a necessary decree declaring carbon dioxide as a "pollutant." We'll get to that later. The rule also fulfilled a campaign promise Obama made to a group of wealthy donors in San Francisco, when he pledged to "bankrupt" any utility that tried to open a coal-fired powerplant.
The "rule" demanded that all electric utilities in the U.S. "modify" their facilities so that overall, they would emit 32% less CO2 than in 2005. The rule generously gave utilities several choices for how they could do this: they could use wind or solar, or "lower-carbon-dioxide-emitting natural gas," or they could "increase the generation efficiency of existing fossil fuel plants."
So no new nuclear powerplants, and no dams. "But we've been extremely generous in letting you choose from four wonderful options, comrade!"
Oh wait, I didn't mention the "magic bullet" that Obozo and the EPA created: They required every state to develop a plan to do what the "guidelines" [bullshit] demanded. And then they invoked what they intended as the magic phrase: "States may use regionally available low carbon generation sources when substituting for in-state coal generation, and [may] coordinate with other states to develop multi-state plans.
Ah. "Coordinate with other states to develop multi-state plans," y'say? Sure, that'll do the trick.
By now almost everyone realizes that wind and solar are intermittent--can't be relied on for continuous power. Natural gas plants are great, but because homes can use gas, the cost of electricity produced from burning gas is more than the cost when using coal. That's where "...will necessarily cause the price of electricity to skyrocket" comes in.
But what about the last option--"increasing the generation efficiency of existing fossil-fueled plants"? Why, simple, comrade: Just slap a "CO2 scrubber" on your boiler exhausts!
Ah. Gosh, it's so obvious. "Just slap a CO2 scrubber on..." Got it.
Of course contrary to the beliefs of leftists, the folks who operate utilities aren't stupid. They actually research how to improve things, constantly. They'd already looked at ways to do this, and had a good idea how much it would increase their cost per kilowatt-hour. Something like 300%.
They concluded that it would be less expensive--both for the utilities and for consumers--to just scrap vitually all coal-fired plants and build new gas-fired plants. Of course the cost of those new plants is always paid by consumers. But hey, it's worth it, right? Cuz if the U.S. doesn't scrap all its coal-fired plants the world will end in just ten years!
The utilities reported this to Obozo's EPA, which shrugged. "Not our problem, comrade."
Seriously, if you've every tried to read the actual text of any law, or the Code of Federal Regulations, you know how it's absolute rubbish, but this one is primo gibberish.
Anyway, Trump directed his EPA chief to reconsider the rule, and it was ultimately rescinded. Which is the basis for the new lawsuit just filed by 22 states.
See, that's what "resistance" is all about, comrade. If you wanna cripple a nation without firing a shot, cripple its economy by making electricity three times more costly. Output falls, prices rise, people starve, communists win. Just like Venezuela! It's really easy if you have a Marxist Muslim president, but really any Democrat will do, since they all believe global warming is fatal and unprecedented, and is caused by CO2 emitted by humans.
But the only people being punished are Americans. No buy-in from China or Russia or India. Cuz, fairness, comrade.
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