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Monday, 03 January 2011 07:32 Niger Innis, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez and Amy Frederick .Will America learn in time from the price being paid by British companies and families?
The Obama Administration still hasn't gotten the message voters sent Washington on November 2.
The lame duck session and 111th Congress finally ended, without the White House getting key items on its wish list. So now, the Environmental Protection Agency and Interior Department intend to impose costly, job-killing, economy-strangling new rules for power plants and refineries, and implement more land-grabs that will lock up additional millions of acres and more billions of dollars of American energy.
Their goal is to end the hydrocarbon and nuclear era in America, and force us to convert to renewable energy. Beginning January 2, they plan to ignore clear voter mandates and consumer needs and use regulations and executive edicts to slash carbon dioxide emissions, impose clean energy standards, halt onshore and offshore drilling, and hobble the vehicles, electrical generating plants and factories that are the backbone of our nations economy, jobs and living standards.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson claims these actions are needed to ensure environmental justice for poor and minority families threatened by manmade global warming. Meanwhile, the United States and entire Northern Hemisphere are enduring yet another nasty winter, marked by early snow storms and record cold temperatures. Some scientists say Earth could be entering another prolonged period of cooler temperatures.
Businesses, workers and families face unemployment, injustice, bankruptcy and worse at the hands of their government, if this regulatory power grab continues.
The Congressional Research Service says average US households will pay almost $1,000 this winter just for heat. Thats average: Alaska to Florida, Hawaii to New York. Northern states residents will pay double or triple that. Businesses, schools and hospitals will also be hammered.
In Cobb County, Georgia, hundreds shivered outside to apply for heating assistance from a welfare agency that may not have enough money for every family that needs help. Along the Canadian border, in St. Lawrence County, New York, over 8,000 households were approved for heating aid by cash-strapped local, county and state governments that wonder where the money will come from while Albany has blocked drilling for shale gas that could fuel homes and power plants, and generate billions in revenue.
All this is before the Feds actually implement more of the job-killing, family-freezing CO2 limits and other plans they are contemplating. To see whats in store for millions of American businesses and families, one need only look at the planets sole country that still obstinately clings to its draconian climate change and renewable energy goals, regardless of the costs.
Across Great Britain, household energy bills could double by 2020, to $3,900 (£2,500) a year, market expert Mark Todd of EnergyHelpLine.com has warned. Gasoline prices are likewise climbing to unaffordable levels, and the majority of United Kingdom companies will see their natural gas and electricity prices skyrocket by 100% between 2012 and 2016 on top of a carbon tax bill of at least $65,660 (£42,000) annually according to the analytical firm Carbon Masters.
Moreover, most of Britains older coal-fired and nuclear power plants are scheduled to be shut down, with almost nothing to replace them, even as electricity demand rises. That could bring widespread blackouts, said the Daily Mail, and cause hundreds of thousands of UK jobs to be outsourced to countries where energy costs are much lower, and air pollution and carbon dioxide emission standards far less stringent. That will hardly improve Englands economy or global environmental quality.
Far worse, more than 5.5 million households will be plunged into fuel poverty by early 2011 forced to spend more than 10% of their family incomes on energy National Energy Action and other charities said. Thats over one-fifth of all UK households and a major increase from 4.5 million families in 2008. Most in these households are over age 60, but working families are also struggling to keep the heat on, as prices soar.
Nearly 28,000 people died in Britain last winter, most of them pensioners who could not afford adequate heat. Charities say this is the highest winter death rate in northern Europe, worse even than much colder nations like Finland and Sweden. And this winter has already seen the coldest December night for Wales in 169 years of record keeping. Britain is on track to having its coldest December in a century.
read the rest here.
Driving US Families into Fuel Poverty | Energy and Environment Right Side News
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Monday, 03 January 2011 07:32 Niger Innis, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez and Amy Frederick .Will America learn in time from the price being paid by British companies and families?
The Obama Administration still hasn't gotten the message voters sent Washington on November 2.
The lame duck session and 111th Congress finally ended, without the White House getting key items on its wish list. So now, the Environmental Protection Agency and Interior Department intend to impose costly, job-killing, economy-strangling new rules for power plants and refineries, and implement more land-grabs that will lock up additional millions of acres and more billions of dollars of American energy.
Their goal is to end the hydrocarbon and nuclear era in America, and force us to convert to renewable energy. Beginning January 2, they plan to ignore clear voter mandates and consumer needs and use regulations and executive edicts to slash carbon dioxide emissions, impose clean energy standards, halt onshore and offshore drilling, and hobble the vehicles, electrical generating plants and factories that are the backbone of our nations economy, jobs and living standards.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson claims these actions are needed to ensure environmental justice for poor and minority families threatened by manmade global warming. Meanwhile, the United States and entire Northern Hemisphere are enduring yet another nasty winter, marked by early snow storms and record cold temperatures. Some scientists say Earth could be entering another prolonged period of cooler temperatures.
Businesses, workers and families face unemployment, injustice, bankruptcy and worse at the hands of their government, if this regulatory power grab continues.
The Congressional Research Service says average US households will pay almost $1,000 this winter just for heat. Thats average: Alaska to Florida, Hawaii to New York. Northern states residents will pay double or triple that. Businesses, schools and hospitals will also be hammered.
In Cobb County, Georgia, hundreds shivered outside to apply for heating assistance from a welfare agency that may not have enough money for every family that needs help. Along the Canadian border, in St. Lawrence County, New York, over 8,000 households were approved for heating aid by cash-strapped local, county and state governments that wonder where the money will come from while Albany has blocked drilling for shale gas that could fuel homes and power plants, and generate billions in revenue.
All this is before the Feds actually implement more of the job-killing, family-freezing CO2 limits and other plans they are contemplating. To see whats in store for millions of American businesses and families, one need only look at the planets sole country that still obstinately clings to its draconian climate change and renewable energy goals, regardless of the costs.
Across Great Britain, household energy bills could double by 2020, to $3,900 (£2,500) a year, market expert Mark Todd of EnergyHelpLine.com has warned. Gasoline prices are likewise climbing to unaffordable levels, and the majority of United Kingdom companies will see their natural gas and electricity prices skyrocket by 100% between 2012 and 2016 on top of a carbon tax bill of at least $65,660 (£42,000) annually according to the analytical firm Carbon Masters.
Moreover, most of Britains older coal-fired and nuclear power plants are scheduled to be shut down, with almost nothing to replace them, even as electricity demand rises. That could bring widespread blackouts, said the Daily Mail, and cause hundreds of thousands of UK jobs to be outsourced to countries where energy costs are much lower, and air pollution and carbon dioxide emission standards far less stringent. That will hardly improve Englands economy or global environmental quality.
Far worse, more than 5.5 million households will be plunged into fuel poverty by early 2011 forced to spend more than 10% of their family incomes on energy National Energy Action and other charities said. Thats over one-fifth of all UK households and a major increase from 4.5 million families in 2008. Most in these households are over age 60, but working families are also struggling to keep the heat on, as prices soar.
Nearly 28,000 people died in Britain last winter, most of them pensioners who could not afford adequate heat. Charities say this is the highest winter death rate in northern Europe, worse even than much colder nations like Finland and Sweden. And this winter has already seen the coldest December night for Wales in 169 years of record keeping. Britain is on track to having its coldest December in a century.
read the rest here.
Driving US Families into Fuel Poverty | Energy and Environment Right Side News
