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Everyone wonders why no one is hiring? It's because of anti-business practices like these that have everyone sitting on their stash waiting for it to end...
Get ready for the sacrifice of tens of thousands more American jobs (at least) to feed the fantasy of clean energy. Even as the green jobs promise proves to be a lie, the Obama administration is getting set to force the shutdown of countless power plants across half the nation.
The Environmental Protection Agencys new Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, announced last month, will affect coal-fired electric plants in at least 27 midwestern and eastern states. Set to take effect next year, the rule could shutter up to a fifth of the nations generating capacity.
AP
Jackson: Endangering Americans livelihood.
With coal providing 45 percent of the nations energy, utility companies warn of an economic train wreck if the regulations -- based on Bush-era EPA proposals that the federal courts threw out in 2008 -- take effect. One Wisconsin utility says its costs would jump $32.6 million next year, while the head of the Texas Public Utility Commission says the rules could lead to rolling blackouts -- especially given the short time the utilities have to comply with Washingtons iron fist.
Steve Miller, president and CEO of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, warns of job losses totaling 1.4 million over the next eight years and a 23 percent jump in electric rates in states dependent on coal-fired plants.
With unemployment still sky-high, new jobless claims routinely hitting 400,000 a week and consumer prices rising, is this really the time to hobble the nations reeling economy further?
Absolutely, says autocratic EPA chief Lisa Jackson -- who could possibly be against improving the air quality for up to 240 million Americans? Just because wind and weather will carry air pollution away from its source at a local power plant doesnt mean that pollution is no longer that plants responsibility.
Fine -- but wouldnt it be nice if the EPA could prove real health effects before forcing the shutdown of so many plants?
Environmental extremists cheer the new rules because closing dirty coal plants is part of their fantasy of clean energy and green jobs. But the reality is otherwise. Even backed by stimulus funds, green business after business has flopped or folded, costing taxpayers millions.
In Seattle, a plan called Retrofit Ramp-Up sucked up $20 million in federal grants to make houses more energy efficient. The result: so far, only three homes retrofitted and just 14 jobs created. California got $186 million for a similar program and has spent just over half of it -- with just 538 new full-time jobs to show for it.
Costco recently announced that its yanking out some 90 electric-car chargers at 64 of its stores, mostly in California -- because nobody uses them. The discount retailer also rejected the offer of a $2.3 million upgrade by the California Energy Commission. Why should we have anybody spend money on a program that nobodys thought through? said one regional manager.
So lets get this straight: At the same time its spending millions of taxpayer dollars in pursuit of a chimera, the Obama administration is attacking the wellsprings of US prosperity, throwing people out of work and raising consumer costs. This isnt just insane; its malevolent.
Nobodys in favor of dirtier air or water, of childhood asthma or killing puppies. But progressives often seem to think that theres never any cost for their crackpot notions, that no amount of money can ever possibly be too much, even if we have to borrow or print it. If people are thrown out of work in the process, tough.
Worst of all is the increasingly arbitrary reach of the regulatory state. President Richard Nixon created the EPA by executive order in 1970, in a hasty response to an oil spill near Santa Barbara. The 1970s absolutely must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters and our living environment, he said.
That was 41 years ago. The nations air and water have noticeably improved since then -- but theyll never be clean enough to satisfy some. To people like Lisa Jackson, we need to keep on paying -- even if it kills us.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_epa_giant_green_jobs_killer_KdfsWk1XtxOu1souIABLFM#ixzz1Vnwlrwi3
Get ready for the sacrifice of tens of thousands more American jobs (at least) to feed the fantasy of clean energy. Even as the green jobs promise proves to be a lie, the Obama administration is getting set to force the shutdown of countless power plants across half the nation.
The Environmental Protection Agencys new Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, announced last month, will affect coal-fired electric plants in at least 27 midwestern and eastern states. Set to take effect next year, the rule could shutter up to a fifth of the nations generating capacity.
AP
Jackson: Endangering Americans livelihood.
With coal providing 45 percent of the nations energy, utility companies warn of an economic train wreck if the regulations -- based on Bush-era EPA proposals that the federal courts threw out in 2008 -- take effect. One Wisconsin utility says its costs would jump $32.6 million next year, while the head of the Texas Public Utility Commission says the rules could lead to rolling blackouts -- especially given the short time the utilities have to comply with Washingtons iron fist.
Steve Miller, president and CEO of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, warns of job losses totaling 1.4 million over the next eight years and a 23 percent jump in electric rates in states dependent on coal-fired plants.
With unemployment still sky-high, new jobless claims routinely hitting 400,000 a week and consumer prices rising, is this really the time to hobble the nations reeling economy further?
Absolutely, says autocratic EPA chief Lisa Jackson -- who could possibly be against improving the air quality for up to 240 million Americans? Just because wind and weather will carry air pollution away from its source at a local power plant doesnt mean that pollution is no longer that plants responsibility.
Fine -- but wouldnt it be nice if the EPA could prove real health effects before forcing the shutdown of so many plants?
Environmental extremists cheer the new rules because closing dirty coal plants is part of their fantasy of clean energy and green jobs. But the reality is otherwise. Even backed by stimulus funds, green business after business has flopped or folded, costing taxpayers millions.
In Seattle, a plan called Retrofit Ramp-Up sucked up $20 million in federal grants to make houses more energy efficient. The result: so far, only three homes retrofitted and just 14 jobs created. California got $186 million for a similar program and has spent just over half of it -- with just 538 new full-time jobs to show for it.
Costco recently announced that its yanking out some 90 electric-car chargers at 64 of its stores, mostly in California -- because nobody uses them. The discount retailer also rejected the offer of a $2.3 million upgrade by the California Energy Commission. Why should we have anybody spend money on a program that nobodys thought through? said one regional manager.
So lets get this straight: At the same time its spending millions of taxpayer dollars in pursuit of a chimera, the Obama administration is attacking the wellsprings of US prosperity, throwing people out of work and raising consumer costs. This isnt just insane; its malevolent.
Nobodys in favor of dirtier air or water, of childhood asthma or killing puppies. But progressives often seem to think that theres never any cost for their crackpot notions, that no amount of money can ever possibly be too much, even if we have to borrow or print it. If people are thrown out of work in the process, tough.
Worst of all is the increasingly arbitrary reach of the regulatory state. President Richard Nixon created the EPA by executive order in 1970, in a hasty response to an oil spill near Santa Barbara. The 1970s absolutely must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters and our living environment, he said.
That was 41 years ago. The nations air and water have noticeably improved since then -- but theyll never be clean enough to satisfy some. To people like Lisa Jackson, we need to keep on paying -- even if it kills us.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_epa_giant_green_jobs_killer_KdfsWk1XtxOu1souIABLFM#ixzz1Vnwlrwi3
