ALERT!! New Coal Restrictions by EPA.

by Fredrick Lindner

Mar 27, 2012

THE EPA JUST SENT OUT NEW CO2 REGULATIONS EFFECTIVELY BANNING COAL PLANTS.  We MUST call our congressman and Senators today.  We are doomed if we do not act soon.  This from the following article...(( effectively ban new coal power plants ...—designed to reduce coal’s contribution to the nation’s energy supply—))

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/27/epa-co2-regulation-effectively-...

I have already provided some links here on the site with a forum for all to access titled "CO2 in not Pollution."

http://arapahoeteaparty.ning.com/forum/topics/why-carbon-dioxide-co...

We must call and make calls during the next weeks and months.  This is an end run around Congress to outlaw coal power and thus dilute our economic capacity.  I know that this executive branch is pushing so much so fast that it is hard to combat or continue to fight but we are reaching our last hope.

Call Congress, write, visit the offices, make yourself heard.

To the officers of this organization, we need to get a game plan together and get hundreds more involved.  Failure to respond must not be an option.  GET BACK ON TASK and MISSION ORIENT BACK TO THE SAVING OF THIS COUNTY.

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    Fredrick Lindner

    Somehow buried in this Congression Research Study was a first look at what the EPA had planned as far back as 2011. 

     

    Flip to page 21 of the PDF, or page 17 of the report text to read this...

    http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41914.pdf

     

    "((EEI’s $25/ton assumption would result in a cost of CO2 regulation of $43.7 billion in

    2017, with 5% increases each year thereafter. This cost, which appears to have been based on its

    analysis of legislation not enacted in the 111th Congress, dwarfs every other projected regulatory

    cost in the regulatory impact analyses that CRS examined. Inclusion of this requirement leads, in

    EEI’s analysis, to an additional 23 GW of retired capacity in 2015 and 40 GW of incremental

    retirements in 2020, accounting for more than half of all retirements in the latter year.))"

     

    NOTE GW means GIGA-WATTS, in 2009 the US produced 338 GW of energy from coal.  So using the combined retirements by 2020 that will be lost and not replaced compared to 2009 outputs, we will lose 18.6% of our energy by 2020.  Be prepared to stop charging your cell phone, or using AC, or watching TV on a plasma.  These are the things the EPA has in store for the economy.

     

    Apr 16, 2012

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    W. Branstetter

    On a related note, here is the latest release from the U.S. Geological Survey of estimates for oil, natural gas, and more.

     

    http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/usgs_top_story/worlds-oil-and-ga...

     

    Apr 18, 2012

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    Fredrick Lindner

    Thanks Wilma, while I believe in Conservation of energy and diversity of energy to provide for sources in the future, basing an economy on CO2 as a pollutant is unwarranted.  Although the numbers provided in the link are appear to be vast, they are limited.  By these numbers we will have depleted all oil reserves in less than 20 years, natural gas will be gone in less than 70.  Transitions to other energy sources will be motivated by economic forces long before then.

    Apr 24, 2012