War on Coal - battleground Ohio - Granite Grok

War on Coal – battleground Ohio

Laser Beam on Coal JobsThe EPA is nothing more than Obama’s own “hatchet man” that is implemented his policy of Determined Weakness (TM) in the energy industry. Since he is above the Law and above the Constitution, our Constitutional Lecturer (and he has never stopped lecturing us) President, Obama can and is simply ignoring the fact that Congress never passed a Cap N Trade bill or a Carbon Tax bill.  No matter, he just can WAIT to do it on his own (it boosts his self-esteem by making him feel kingly).

For this, IMHO, he’s joined forces with the Enviromentalists that have infested the EPA and Interior Department  that believe that we Americans use way too much energy – and now we shall pay for our past sins.

A never ending penance so assuage their religious ideology of Global Warming (now climate change as all the computer models are giving crap results compared to, you know, actual temps) must be paid to them by we serfs (after all, we are idiots and can’t figure what is “right behavior”)  And of course, they have to shut down the most economical source of energy that we have in the United States: coal.

In Ohio – it is starting to have real results – and Ohioans are about to decide “should a Federal Department alone decide how we shall live”? Emphasis mine:

“All Ohioans should be concerned about the growing list of announced power plant closures in our state with no plan to bring online additional power-generating capacity to meet our current and projected needs,” said Ohio state Rep. Mike Dovilla, who organized the field hearing. “Ohio’s hard-working families will be particularly impacted as analysts have projected electricity rate increases of up to 300 percent.”

Ohio has been hit hard, particularly by Environmental Protection Agency regulations aimed at curbing carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants. According to the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, the U.S. will lose 285 coal plants across 32 states as more EPA regulations make coal burning uneconomical. Thirty-eight of those closings will occur in Ohio.

According to the Times Leader, a local newspaper, “coal-fired electricity has been an affordable and reliable electricity source for many Ohioans; approximately 78 percent is consumed by Ohioans.

We are seeing this writ small here in NH where the Bow plant of PSNH had to spend $425 million for new scrubber add-ons – and now the same folks that screamed for the clean up and now screaming that PSNH charges too much and should get rid of that plant.  Back to Ohio – do you think that Obama cares, or the EPA bureaucrats and the Sierra Club and the TreeHuggies care that this could ruin an entire state?  Correct – of course not.  After all, as jobs are lost or prices skyrocket, less energy will be used (especially those houses that go completely dark).

But there is this – like any place where bullies (i.e., the EPA) overplay their hand, remember that Ohio IS a swing / battleground state.  If enough harm is done, do you think that there would be repercussions?

Obama when campaigning in 2008 :

What I’ve said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else’s out there.

I was the first to call for a 100% auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted down caps that are being placed, imposed every year.

(H/T: Daily Caller)

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