If anyone has a clue what she’s talking about, please illuminate. Any particular regulation got her undies in a bunch, or is it just the inability to keep 50-year old mercury-spewing coal plant online?
So it is ok for gov’t to ban incandescent light bulbs and go to the cute curly Q light bulbs that dump mercury in our landfills, as long as we are not spewing mercury?
So let make sure I have this right. Can use oil, can’t use coal, can’t use nuclear, solar, hydrogen and wind are decades from being viable (and maybe not even then).So could the liberals please tell me exactly how we ARE supposed to power our lives? Or are you guys suggesting we go back to the Dark Ages?
@grayhares01 Solar is viable now. Checik the prices of solar panelling for your house. Wind is viable now, though a lot of people apparently think natural beauty is more important thansaving the ecosphere. @Svenskabru 2 U if we want our great-grandchildren to reach the ripe old age of forty, we are going to have to do something about pollution. Sorry to tell you this, but it ain’t just foreigners in far away lands that will suffer and die if we don’t.
“So it is ok for gov’t to ban incandescent light bulbs and go to the cute curly Q light bulbs that dump mercury in our landfills, as long as we are not spewing mercury?”- They haven’t banned them.
BTW, if anyone thinks that power companies are “evil” all on their own, recognize that almost everywhere, they are granted monopoly status by the state, who then “regulates” them through some sort of public utility commission. This restrictive practice encourages waste and does nothing to open up the market to drive prices down.
I repeat from Bennett: Folks should NOT demand regulation of nuclear power plants, it should be a self-policing industry, just like banking, Wall Street, and chemical manufacturing- all that “government interfering with profit” will destroy America! FREE ENTERPRISE, FREE MARKETS! Remove all STOP signs, let people be FREE of “regulations”!
If gov’t regs are so strangling, why are the big corporations enjoying record profits while the middle class is sinking? And why did the clean air act work so well?
Cry me a river already. Oh, that’s right: without EPA regulations it’d be so polluted we couldn’t drink from it. The EPA protects people. Businesses of all kind have to learn they can’t destroy the planet or poison everybody for the almighty dollar.
Lisa, after the lack of regulation caused the financial meltdown, you’re advocating we stop regulating the power industry? Ask Japan what could go wrong.
Here’s a truism: Increasing the cost of operating a business increases the cost of that businesses product or service. The EPA regulations, while they have great intentions, have the unintended consequence of raising costs to consumers.
That and black death to end feudalism with wages. Feudalism came back but Unions broke it. Feudalism came back again as Unions were broken and villified, but . . . .
ARodney almost 13 years ago
If anyone has a clue what she’s talking about, please illuminate. Any particular regulation got her undies in a bunch, or is it just the inability to keep 50-year old mercury-spewing coal plant online?
SpicyNacho Premium Member almost 13 years ago
So it is ok for gov’t to ban incandescent light bulbs and go to the cute curly Q light bulbs that dump mercury in our landfills, as long as we are not spewing mercury?
grayhares01 almost 13 years ago
So let make sure I have this right. Can use oil, can’t use coal, can’t use nuclear, solar, hydrogen and wind are decades from being viable (and maybe not even then).So could the liberals please tell me exactly how we ARE supposed to power our lives? Or are you guys suggesting we go back to the Dark Ages?
allanwr almost 13 years ago
@grayhares01 Solar is viable now. Checik the prices of solar panelling for your house. Wind is viable now, though a lot of people apparently think natural beauty is more important thansaving the ecosphere. @Svenskabru 2 U if we want our great-grandchildren to reach the ripe old age of forty, we are going to have to do something about pollution. Sorry to tell you this, but it ain’t just foreigners in far away lands that will suffer and die if we don’t.
Jaedabee Premium Member almost 13 years ago
“So it is ok for gov’t to ban incandescent light bulbs and go to the cute curly Q light bulbs that dump mercury in our landfills, as long as we are not spewing mercury?”- They haven’t banned them.
curtisls87 almost 13 years ago
BTW, if anyone thinks that power companies are “evil” all on their own, recognize that almost everywhere, they are granted monopoly status by the state, who then “regulates” them through some sort of public utility commission. This restrictive practice encourages waste and does nothing to open up the market to drive prices down.
Dtroutma almost 13 years ago
I repeat from Bennett: Folks should NOT demand regulation of nuclear power plants, it should be a self-policing industry, just like banking, Wall Street, and chemical manufacturing- all that “government interfering with profit” will destroy America! FREE ENTERPRISE, FREE MARKETS! Remove all STOP signs, let people be FREE of “regulations”!
RunninOnEmpty almost 13 years ago
If gov’t regs are so strangling, why are the big corporations enjoying record profits while the middle class is sinking? And why did the clean air act work so well?
crmorris1957 Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Cry me a river already. Oh, that’s right: without EPA regulations it’d be so polluted we couldn’t drink from it. The EPA protects people. Businesses of all kind have to learn they can’t destroy the planet or poison everybody for the almighty dollar.
feverjr Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Lisa, after the lack of regulation caused the financial meltdown, you’re advocating we stop regulating the power industry? Ask Japan what could go wrong.
Wraithkin almost 13 years ago
Here’s a truism: Increasing the cost of operating a business increases the cost of that businesses product or service. The EPA regulations, while they have great intentions, have the unintended consequence of raising costs to consumers.
Dtroutma almost 13 years ago
^it was “civil authorities” acting on the authority of the church in theocracy.
DavidGBA almost 13 years ago
That and black death to end feudalism with wages. Feudalism came back but Unions broke it. Feudalism came back again as Unions were broken and villified, but . . . .