A Kinder And More Gentle Big Government Burden
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
Over the past couple of weeks there has been the smoothly-played release of the new version of a federal government global warming prevention proposal. Much of the spin about the legislation has been on how this bill only addresses the biggest and badest who deserve government’s heavy-hand reaching into their wallets. All the Mom and Pop types need not fear their government, farmers and ranchers will not be harmed in the making of these intrusive energy spikes…
I greatly appreciate a friend’s willingness to share a link which provides a side-by-side comparison of the three proposals in the mix. We see that the House-passed, Waxman-Markey (H.R. 2454) the Senate idea known as the “Boxer-Kerry Chairman Mark” and the new and kinder, “Kerry-Lieberman – American Power Act” actually track with one-another in almost lock-step (lock-step being a fitting vision for how this whole enterprise is supposed to work)…
Given the nature of the law-making process and how it has played itself out on other measures (like health-care) we will see an effort put forth to come up with anything that can pass the Senate (also clearing the 60-vote hurdle to avoid a filibuster). Once something is passed and the Senate-House Conference committee takes up the issue…all kinds of things that couldn’t pass before are now suddenly in play. If nothing passes the Senate on imposing a government-inspired solution of more taxes and higher energy costs to the invented crisis of global warming…House members who cast their votes last year are suddenly swinging exposed for something that will have to be started all over again. (Remember – particularly when voting in November -- two of Nevada’s U.S. Congressional members, Congresswoman Berkley and Congresswoman Titus, voted to impose the cap and tax approach in the House-passed Waxman-Markey bill.)
It would seem that the kinder and more gentle iron-fist of government is also a tactic by the federal agency who understands iron-fist ideas better than any. One account I read opened with the paragraph:
There you have it…EPA has now become a regulatory agency of “common-sense” engaged in “protecting small businesses and farms”. Protecting them from who? Probably protecting them from the real EPA who doesn’t believe in common-sense thresholds…
As long as we have the bunch running things – who are running things – relaxing and not being concerned about what your government is going to do to you…would be a very misplaced approach.
Over the past couple of weeks there has been the smoothly-played release of the new version of a federal government global warming prevention proposal. Much of the spin about the legislation has been on how this bill only addresses the biggest and badest who deserve government’s heavy-hand reaching into their wallets. All the Mom and Pop types need not fear their government, farmers and ranchers will not be harmed in the making of these intrusive energy spikes…
I greatly appreciate a friend’s willingness to share a link which provides a side-by-side comparison of the three proposals in the mix. We see that the House-passed, Waxman-Markey (H.R. 2454) the Senate idea known as the “Boxer-Kerry Chairman Mark” and the new and kinder, “Kerry-Lieberman – American Power Act” actually track with one-another in almost lock-step (lock-step being a fitting vision for how this whole enterprise is supposed to work)…
Given the nature of the law-making process and how it has played itself out on other measures (like health-care) we will see an effort put forth to come up with anything that can pass the Senate (also clearing the 60-vote hurdle to avoid a filibuster). Once something is passed and the Senate-House Conference committee takes up the issue…all kinds of things that couldn’t pass before are now suddenly in play. If nothing passes the Senate on imposing a government-inspired solution of more taxes and higher energy costs to the invented crisis of global warming…House members who cast their votes last year are suddenly swinging exposed for something that will have to be started all over again. (Remember – particularly when voting in November -- two of Nevada’s U.S. Congressional members, Congresswoman Berkley and Congresswoman Titus, voted to impose the cap and tax approach in the House-passed Waxman-Markey bill.)
It would seem that the kinder and more gentle iron-fist of government is also a tactic by the federal agency who understands iron-fist ideas better than any. One account I read opened with the paragraph:
"The Environmental Protection Agency late last week announced a final rule to address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the largest stationary sources, while shielding small sources of GHGs from Clean Air Act permitting requirements."This account went on to say that only new facilities over 100,000 tons of annual emissions would be impacted, sharing the observation, "After extensive study, debate and hundreds of thousands of public comments, EPA has set common-sense thresholds for greenhouse gases that will spark clean technology innovation and protect small businesses and farms," said EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson in a news release.
There you have it…EPA has now become a regulatory agency of “common-sense” engaged in “protecting small businesses and farms”. Protecting them from who? Probably protecting them from the real EPA who doesn’t believe in common-sense thresholds…
As long as we have the bunch running things – who are running things – relaxing and not being concerned about what your government is going to do to you…would be a very misplaced approach.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 5/18/2010 9:45 AM 
Categories: Global Warming
Tags: Kerry-Lieberman EPA Regulation U.S Senate Cap and Trade Climate Change
Categories: Global Warming
Tags: Kerry-Lieberman EPA Regulation U.S Senate Cap and Trade Climate Change
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