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Because I'm not a paranoid anti-government wacko nor a rabidly partisan truth-hater.
Not even the most vapid right-wing rags are claiming that people will "freeze to death". But heck, thanks for demonstrating what I speculated earlier...There is apparently no depths some will go to to oppose a compromise that benefits people they hate more than they believe it benefits themselves and their descendants.
I doubt they're thinking it through that far. The right-wing approach to these issues is to insulate themselves from truth that despoils their desire to act on their preference for callous disregard for others and the promise of their own self-gratification.
Maybe china will supply us with electricity! How would you like that?
Nice attempt to deflect. Now reply to what my comment actually said.
I did reply to what you said. Increased energy costs are going to have detrimental affect on health and lives. Anything you buy is now more expensive whether it's heat, medicine, heath care, food etc. You are increasing those costs to reduce mercury deposition rates here in the US by 1 to 10 percent which will have negligible affect on health.
And the air, water and soil will be just as polluted....it just won't be in the US.
Good deed doers don't think past their own borders.
Actually as far as this regulation goes there is a potential to increase deposition rates here in the US. One thing any company is going to look at is energy costs, if higher energy costs drive more business overseas those mercury emissions which are far greater in China and other Asian countries are going to make there way here. Mercury is a global issue and that's why the estimates on the reduction in deposition rates are so abysmally low.
Thank you liberals for turning a once great nation into a third world banana republic.
My children also thank you for destroying their economic future.
These fricken people make no sense. They cry and gnash their teeth about wood burning stoves, they carry on about oil, they screech that people need to use Natural Gas, and then they increase the cost of it by 150%.
WTH is their problem? They want everyone to freeze, is that it? Hike that Natural Gas up 150%, watch more people burn wood...in fact, I'm going to actively seek out a place with a wood stove just to **** these people off.
I think the Daily Caller and many posters here forgets the time before widespread fracking (less than 7 years ago) when residential natural gas was 200% the current cost.
A 150% increase in cost of over 26 years due to increasing demand from it being so cheap compared to other forms of energy is hardly going to cause people to freeze to death. But facts be damned right?
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