This Should Scare the Hell Out of You
January 21st, 2009
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who chairs the panel, pressed Jackson on whether she would back measures to start regulating carbon dioxide, such as a finding that CO2 emissions endanger public health and welfare and a waiver allowing California and other states to impose their own regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles. Boxer’s staff even prepared a “Report on the Tools Available Under the Clean Air Act to Immediately Reduce Global Warming Pollution” outlining how Jackson could do so.
The scary part of this paragraph are these words “a finding that CO2 emissions endanger public health and welfare”.
They are talking about labeling carbon dioxide as a pollutant. This is the end game for the global warming lunatics. Our government could actually label what we exhale in every breathe as a poisonous pollutant that must be controlled. This would put it up there with things like chlorofluorocarbons and mercury.
Such a finding would give the EPA free reign to regulate everything in our economy without congressional approval. Not that congressional approval is all that important, in the Democrat controlled legislature now-a-days. If they do this, this recession will look like a tea party, and the Kyoto protocol will seem like a wishful dream.
Categories: Freedom, Politics | Tags: global warming, socialist stupidity
It’s a political game. The costs involved are so big here, and the blame is so obvious, that even a low watt bulb like Boxer won’t put herself in the crosshairs.
Regulating is what regulators do. Dodging blame is what politicians do.
The danger is if they can figure out how to do this and blame someone else.
Yup. Pretty scary.
More evidence is coming out every day that pretty much refutes the idea that CO2 levels are a man-made phenomenon.