EPA ignore report that new coal regulations will kill jobs and Economy

[Jroc]

For all those Libs that still believe Obama is for the "little guy" As his policies kill jobs and drive up the cost of energy.

President Barack Obama is ignoring heated concerns from within his own administration that new Environmental Protection Agency coal industry regulations will be economically devastating.

The EPA is plowing forward with new Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) mandates. The regulations would force coal energy plants to install giant scrubber-like materials inside smokestacks to capture and cleanse carbon particles before their atmospheric release.

The upgrade cost would fall on company employees and coal miners in the form of layoffs, as well as on businesses, which could expect to pay more for energy.

In a lengthy letter to EPA Director Lisa Jackson, Obama’s Small Business Administration advocacy office wrote the EPA “may have significantly understated” the economic “burden this rulemaking would impose on small entities.”

One Southern Indiana Chamber of Commerce vice president, Tonya Fischer, told The Daily Caller the entire state of Indiana would be “devastated” by these regulations. “We are definitely in opposition to [the MACT regulations] because it would be devastating for the state of Indiana.” She adds that local businesses, which are struggling with the tough economy already, would be forced to pick up the extra energy production costs Obama’s EPA is pushing. “We get 95 percent of our electricity from coal.”

“The cost to convert those facilities would be passed on to the small business owners, or basically shut them [the coal energy producing facilities] down altogether,” Fischer said. “It would become cost-prohibitive for them [local businesses] to continue paying their electricity bills.”

If the EPA regulations aren’t halted, Fischer expects unemployment numbers in Indiana to skyrocket. “This has got to affect tens of thousands of jobs in the area because, not only would you lose the employees from the coal facilities, the plants themselves would become more streamlined so you’d lose jobs there and, of course, the small and local businesses.”

Read more: Coal Regulations | Environmental Protection Agency | Small Business Administration | The Daily Caller

 

[daveman]

Let's see: Increased energy prices which will hit the poor the hardest, lots of people losing jobs, all based on "science" with no actual basis in science.

There really can be no defense of this decision. Obama simply doesn't give a damn about people.

 

[uscitizen]

Hmm since MACT started in 1999 or so.....

Check out the EPA web site.

 

[Mr. H.]

Clips from the article:


”The [FERC] commission’s staff has preliminarily estimated that up to 81 gigawatts of existing generation are ‘likely’ or ‘very likely’ to be retired as a consequence of new EPA rules. That’s nearly 8 percent of our installed capacity for electric generation and a retirement at that scale could have drastic consequences for many parts of our country.”


...bigger non-energy companies are moving operations overseas because the Obama administration regulations, especially EPA ones, make it cost too much for them to operate in the United States. “Why do you think Alcoa, which makes aluminum, of which a huge input cost is energy, why do you think they’re building in Saudi Arabia? Dow Chemical, the same thing?”

IF these added costs were allowed to be immediately passed along to consumers. there would be little to no objection from power generators. BUT there would be plenty of objection from VOTERS.

 

[Jroc]

Off course libs don't care if they are killing jobs, hurting our ability to do business here in this country, as long as it advances their big government agenda, that’s all that matters to them. When we have rolling blackouts because we can't produce enough energy. there will be a cry for government to help.... More crises more government.....


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Iv4hQBG8E&feature=related]Rahm Emanuel: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Mr. H.]

IMO, coal-fired plants should have had their shit together long ago.

The bitch about it is this- you either require the point source to pony up, or you relegate the burden to the end consumer.

The former gets votes, the latter turns away votes.

Consumers demand the cheap and clean, Washington delivers the down and dirty.
And it ain't purdy.

 

[Jroc]

IMO, coal-fired plants should have had their shit together long ago. The bitch about it is this- you either require the point source to pony up, or you relegate the burden to the end consumer.

The former gets votes, the latter turns away votes.

Consumers demand the cheap and clean, Washington delivers the down and dirty.
And it ain't purdy.

Yeah? What exactly does that mean? How long has CO2 been a pollutant? Bogus science bogus regulations

 

[Trajan]

Clips from the article:


”The [FERC] commission’s staff has preliminarily estimated that up to 81 gigawatts of existing generation are ‘likely’ or ‘very likely’ to be retired as a consequence of new EPA rules. That’s nearly 8 percent of our installed capacity for electric generation and a retirement at that scale could have drastic consequences for many parts of our country.”


...bigger non-energy companies are moving operations overseas because the Obama administration regulations, especially EPA ones, make it cost too much for them to operate in the United States. “Why do you think Alcoa, which makes aluminum, of which a huge input cost is energy, why do you think they’re building in Saudi Arabia? Dow Chemical, the same thing?”

IF these added costs were allowed to be immediately passed along to consumers. there would be little to no objection from power generators. BUT there would be plenty of objection from VOTERS.

I think you should ponder this statement for a few minutes;

IF these added costs were allowed to be immediately passed along to consumers.


?

 

[Jroc]

Clips from the article:


”The [FERC] commission’s staff has preliminarily estimated that up to 81 gigawatts of existing generation are ‘likely’ or ‘very likely’ to be retired as a consequence of new EPA rules. That’s nearly 8 percent of our installed capacity for electric generation and a retirement at that scale could have drastic consequences for many parts of our country.”


...bigger non-energy companies are moving operations overseas because the Obama administration regulations, especially EPA ones, make it cost too much for them to operate in the United States. “Why do you think Alcoa, which makes aluminum, of which a huge input cost is energy, why do you think they’re building in Saudi Arabia? Dow Chemical, the same thing?”

IF these added costs were allowed to be immediately passed along to consumers. there would be little to no objection from power generators. BUT there would be plenty of objection from VOTERS.

I think you should ponder this statement for a few minutes;

IF these added costs were allowed to be immediately passed along to consumers.


?

It's the booze he's not thinking clearly

 

[KissMy]

25% of managements time is spent dealing with rules & regulators.

 

[Jroc]

And the Libs wonder why jobs go overseas.


President Obama's $90 BILLION Clean Air Regulation



Aug. 30, 2011, 5:01 PM


In a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner today, President Barack Obama revealed that the Environmental Protection Agency is considering a clean air rule that could cost up to $90 billion to implement.

The proposed regulation, "Reconsideration of the 2008 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard" would lower the allowable concentration of ozone from 0.075 parts-per-million to between 0.060 and 0.070 ppm. According to the EPA, the new standards are required to increase protection for children and "at-risk" populations against respiratory and cardiovascular diseases related to exposure to ozone in the air.

Obama said the primary cost estimate of implementation is between $19 billion and $90 billion



Read more: President Obama's $90 BILLION Clean Air Regulation

 

[daveman]

And the Libs wonder why jobs go overseas.


President Obama's $90 BILLION Clean Air Regulation



Aug. 30, 2011, 5:01 PM


In a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner today, President Barack Obama revealed that the Environmental Protection Agency is considering a clean air rule that could cost up to $90 billion to implement.

The proposed regulation, "Reconsideration of the 2008 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard" would lower the allowable concentration of ozone from 0.075 parts-per-million to between 0.060 and 0.070 ppm. According to the EPA, the new standards are required to increase protection for children and "at-risk" populations against respiratory and cardiovascular diseases related to exposure to ozone in the air.

Obama said the primary cost estimate of implementation is between $19 billion and $90 billion



Read more: President Obama's $90 BILLION Clean Air Regulation

What to go, Dear Reader. Increased energy costs will hit the poor and the working class the hardest.

If anyone says Obama is for the little guy, he's lying.

 

[uscitizen]

And the Libs wonder why jobs go overseas.


President Obama's $90 BILLION Clean Air Regulation



Aug. 30, 2011, 5:01 PM


In a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner today, President Barack Obama revealed that the Environmental Protection Agency is considering a clean air rule that could cost up to $90 billion to implement.

The proposed regulation, "Reconsideration of the 2008 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard" would lower the allowable concentration of ozone from 0.075 parts-per-million to between 0.060 and 0.070 ppm. According to the EPA, the new standards are required to increase protection for children and "at-risk" populations against respiratory and cardiovascular diseases related to exposure to ozone in the air.

Obama said the primary cost estimate of implementation is between $19 billion and $90 billion



Read more: President Obama's $90 BILLION Clean Air Regulation

What to go, Dear Reader. Increased energy costs will hit the poor and the working class the hardest.

If anyone says Obama is for the little guy, he's lying.

Umm won't there be jobs involved in making the euipment, transporting it and installing it in power plants?

 

[uscitizen]

And BTW SW VA is nearing completion of construction of a brand new clean coal power plant.
I guess it is armageddon when it goes online in a few months?

btw that area has benefitted greatly from the jobs related to the project.

 

[Jroc]

And the Libs wonder why jobs go overseas.


President Obama's $90 BILLION Clean Air Regulation



Aug. 30, 2011, 5:01 PM


In a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner today, President Barack Obama revealed that the Environmental Protection Agency is considering a clean air rule that could cost up to $90 billion to implement.

The proposed regulation, "Reconsideration of the 2008 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard" would lower the allowable concentration of ozone from 0.075 parts-per-million to between 0.060 and 0.070 ppm. According to the EPA, the new standards are required to increase protection for children and "at-risk" populations against respiratory and cardiovascular diseases related to exposure to ozone in the air.

Obama said the primary cost estimate of implementation is between $19 billion and $90 billion



Read more: President Obama's $90 BILLION Clean Air Regulation

What to go, Dear Reader. Increased energy costs will hit the poor and the working class the hardest.

If anyone says Obama is for the little guy, he's lying.

Umm won't there be jobs involved in making the euipment, transporting it and installing it in power plants?

Some jobs will be added but 100s of thousands if not millions more jobs will be lost because of Obama and his EPA. Look at Spain...

Job Losses From Obama Green Stimulus Foreseen in Spanish Study


March 27 (Bloomberg) -- Subsidizing renewable energy in the U.S. may destroy two jobs for every one created if Spain’s experience with windmills and solar farms is any guide.

For every new position that depends on energy price supports, at least 2.2 jobs in other industries will disappear, according to a study from King Juan Carlos University in Madrid.

U.S. President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget proposal contains about $20 billion in tax incentives for clean-energy programs. In Spain, where wind turbines provided 11 percent of power demand last year, generators earn rates as much as 11 times more for renewable energy compared with burning fossil fuels.

The premiums paid for solar, biomass, wave and wind power - - which are charged to consumers in their bills -- translated into a $774,000 cost for each Spanish “green job” created since 2000, said Gabriel Calzada, an economics professor at the university and author of the report.

“The loss of jobs could be greater if you account for the amount of lost industry that moves out of the country due to higher energy prices,” he said in an interview.

Job Losses From Obama Green Stimulus Foreseen in Spanish Study - Bloomberg

 

[daveman]

And the Libs wonder why jobs go overseas.


President Obama's $90 BILLION Clean Air Regulation



Aug. 30, 2011, 5:01 PM


In a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner today, President Barack Obama revealed that the Environmental Protection Agency is considering a clean air rule that could cost up to $90 billion to implement.

The proposed regulation, "Reconsideration of the 2008 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard" would lower the allowable concentration of ozone from 0.075 parts-per-million to between 0.060 and 0.070 ppm. According to the EPA, the new standards are required to increase protection for children and "at-risk" populations against respiratory and cardiovascular diseases related to exposure to ozone in the air.

Obama said the primary cost estimate of implementation is between $19 billion and $90 billion



Read more: President Obama's $90 BILLION Clean Air Regulation

What to go, Dear Reader. Increased energy costs will hit the poor and the working class the hardest.

If anyone says Obama is for the little guy, he's lying.

Umm won't there be jobs involved in making the euipment, transporting it and installing it in power plants?

Yes, that'll be great consolation to poor people who have to choose between food and power.

 

[uscitizen]

What to go, Dear Reader. Increased energy costs will hit the poor and the working class the hardest.

If anyone says Obama is for the little guy, he's lying.

Umm won't there be jobs involved in making the euipment, transporting it and installing it in power plants?

Some jobs will be added but 100s of thousands if not millions more jobs will be lost because of Obama and his EPA. Look at Spain...

Job Losses From Obama Green Stimulus Foreseen in Spanish Study


March 27 (Bloomberg) -- Subsidizing renewable energy in the U.S. may destroy two jobs for every one created if Spain’s experience with windmills and solar farms is any guide.

For every new position that depends on energy price supports, at least 2.2 jobs in other industries will disappear, according to a study from King Juan Carlos University in Madrid.

U.S. President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget proposal contains about $20 billion in tax incentives for clean-energy programs. In Spain, where wind turbines provided 11 percent of power demand last year, generators earn rates as much as 11 times more for renewable energy compared with burning fossil fuels.

The premiums paid for solar, biomass, wave and wind power - - which are charged to consumers in their bills -- translated into a $774,000 cost for each Spanish “green job” created since 2000, said Gabriel Calzada, an economics professor at the university and author of the report.

“The loss of jobs could be greater if you account for the amount of lost industry that moves out of the country due to higher energy prices,” he said in an interview.

Job Losses From Obama Green Stimulus Foreseen in Spanish Study - Bloomberg

Milloins of jobs lost! Be afraid be very afraid. Mushroom clouds in 45 minutes!

 

[uscitizen]

What to go, Dear Reader. Increased energy costs will hit the poor and the working class the hardest.

If anyone says Obama is for the little guy, he's lying.

Umm won't there be jobs involved in making the euipment, transporting it and installing it in power plants?

Yes, that'll be great consolation to poor people who have to choose between food and power.

You mean food and Gasoline?

 

[daveman]

Umm won't there be jobs involved in making the euipment, transporting it and installing it in power plants?

Yes, that'll be great consolation to poor people who have to choose between food and power.

You mean food and Gasoline?

Yes, because they make gasoline in coal-fired power plants.

 

[Stephanie]

Obama never minced words when he said, TRANSFORM AMERCIAN.

People tried to get the word out about what he MEANT. but when you have complicit Progressive enemy media Obama was able to FOOL A LOT OF people. Now look what we have...ALL these NON elected Government agencies that he put his people in are making up their OWN RULES AND REGULATIONS without the approval of CONGRESS. and Obama says, NOTHING.

And it's NOT GOING TO GET ANY BETTER folks. Admit you have been had and move on in 2012 AND MAKE IT RIGHT.