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June 29th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“The war on coal waged by major environmental organizations, combined
with Obama’s hostility to coal is depriving Americans of a cheap,
abundant source of energy.” ~ Alan Caruba
When I was a teenager, I made a lot of money as a magician
entertaining at birthday parties and other events. The essence of stage
magic is diverting the audience’s attention from what one is actually
doing while creating the “illusion” that produces an entertaining
surprise.
While the media was focused on stories last week about the House
committee decision to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt and
the subsequent declaration of executive privilege by the White House to
delay the provision of information the committee had been seeking about
Operation Fast and Furious for over a year, Americans were being
deprived of one of the most affordable and proven sources of electrical
power, coal.
In the Senate, on June 20, a resolution to block the imposition of
the Environmental Protection Agency’s Maximum Achievable Control
Technology (MACT) standards for hazardous air pollutant emissions from
power plants failed.
The vote was 46 ayes to 53 nays. Among the Republicans who sided with
the Democrats to kill the measure were Sens. Lamar Alexander of
Tennessee, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Scott Brown of Massachusetts,
and the two Maine Senators, Susan Collins and Olympia Snow, neither of
whom is a Republican in anything but name only. Their support of the EPA
regulation will cost Americans dearly in jobs and the cost of
electricity.
The Utility MACT rule is so bogus, so based on illusionary computer
models, so devoid of any real science that it constitutes a brazen act
of criminality. It asserts that the health risks from mercury emissions
is such that it is necessary to impose a rule that, by its own
estimates, implementing it will cost $9.6 billion in 2016.
Marlo Lewis of the Competitive Enterprise Institute points out that
“in the 22 years since Congress tasked the EPA to study the health risks
of mercury, the agency has not identified a single child whose learning
or other disabilities can be traced to prenatal mercury exposure.” EPA
cited the mercury risk as the “trigger” for the MACT rule.
There is no public health hazard from burning coal to produce
electricity, but there is a very real hazard when such plants close down
and cease to provide it.
The American Energy Institute notes that “coal’s share of U.S.
electricity is expected to fall to below 40 percent this year from 42
percent last year and produce the lowest share since data was collected
in 1949. Just five or six years ago, its share of electricity generation
was 50 percent.”
The war on coal waged by major environmental organizations, combined
with Obama’s hostility to coal is depriving Americans of a cheap,
abundant source of energy and, last week, Democrats with the aid of some
Republican Senators, just drove the price of electricity to new
heights. It will close down plants that can no longer afford the cost of
emissions control technology and it will close down some mining
operations.
As then-candidate Obama said in 2008, under his proposed
cap-and-trade legislation “electricity rates would necessarily
skyrocket” adding that “So, if somebody wants to build a coal plant,
they can…it’s just that it will bankrupt them.”
When Cap-and-Trade legislation, based on the bogus EPA claim that
carbon dioxide is a “pollutant” failed the far-Left Center for American
Progress pressed Obama to bypass Congress and move the anti-coal,
anti-energy agenda forward by manipulating regulatory and executive
power.
If there was no other reason to defeat Obama in November and deprive
Democrats of control of the Senate, it is what is occurred on Capitol
Hill last week while Americans were distracted by efforts to thwart
action regarding the “Operation Fast and Furious” scandal.
Distracted, too, by the mounting numbers of unemployed, by the
stagnating economy, and by potential and negative news from the European
Union and the Middle East, the attack on the nation’s ability to power
homes, businesses and industries will only become news when the
blackouts begin years down the road.
Alan Caruba – June 28, 2012 – posted at IceAgeNow
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