You can go without air conditioning, presumably, more easily than forego heating costs in a cold climate. And so, if you warm up the planet, you burn fewer fossil fuels to heat up cold places. How interesting!

Tomorrow is July 4th; Independence Day. What do you plan to do to protect it?

These two laws are the equivalent of total war.

If they are implemented, the United States ceases to exist as a democratic republic and becomes a government controlled dictatorship.

Avergage lifestyles will be 10-50% of what they are today. The country will revert to the economy of the Soviet Union.

Yet.

Restricting the supply of energy, and subsequently increasing the cost, has a direct impact on any businesses operating expense. The cost can not all be passed on to consumers since foreign competitors are not paying the energy tax.

Charging an exhorbitant permit fee for CO2 emissions is a direct capital cost which must be added to any potential expansion project.

A massive bureaucracy that will track and enforce the CO2 limits will require companies to hire environmental specialists to protect their interests against the EPA bureaucrats, which is an additional labor cost.

Attempting to craft and process a permit to deal with the CO2 emissions – in addition to already regulated emissions – will stretch out project durations and add cost.

Bottom line is all of these costs combined – when figured into an economic evaluation of a project to determine its profitability – will be prohibitive and stop expansion of industry in this country. Even companies that are not expanding, if they operate with a small enough profit margin, will be forced to shut their doors.

Expect that giant sucking sound to begin in earnest as companies move operations overseas.

How did America go from the likes of Reagan, Truman & TR to be led around by the nose (pun fully intended) by twirps like Nostil-domus.

Sadly Rusty, liberals may understand it, but they won’t accept it.

http://www.americanthinker.com.....g_con.html

Puts it all out there, in plain terms so even a liberal can understand it, maybe.

I would suggest that the Post Office bring back the Pony Express, but PETA would put a stop to that in no time, the cruelty to horses on carrying all that heavy mail.

Meanwhile, China, India, etc all tell them to go pound sand and I never thought I would applaud any move made by such nations.

The irony is that the US is but one nation and not the once great mega-manufacturing one it used to be so while China builds a new coal-burning plant every hour, or whatever it is, the US strangles itself.

And by the way, for the record, watch closely as the “climate change” numbers (the real ones) don’t budge while the skewed data put forth by the toadies in the EPA show a “marked decrease” in “climate-changing gasses”. Simultaneously, as they say this, China and India and Russia will have quadrupled the amount of gaseous emissions, yet the “US numbers” will still “reflect” a “great change for the better”.

Just watch….you’ll see.

Of course, the notion that it’s “about the environment” will become glaringly false. Those of us here already know that. But it will take that requisite amount of time for the rest of the sluggishly slow “intellectuals” to realize it.