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..this man is absolutely horrible
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The president proposes ecological central planning to solve global warming
Ronald Bailey | June 28, 2013
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Speaking at Georgetown University on Tuesday, President Barack Obama outlined his new national climate action plan, which amounts to a federal top-down five-year planalthough he has only four years to implement it. Obamas plan ambitiously seeks to control nearly every aspect of how Americans produce and consume energy. The goal is to cut the emissions of greenhouse gases and thus stop boosting the temperature of the earth. The actual result will be to infect the economy with the same sort of sclerosis seen in other centrally planned nations.
Lets take a look at four aspects of the Obama five-year plan: rationing carbon, boosting renewable energy and energy efficiency, subsidizing climate resilience, and negotiating international limits on emissions.
Rationing Carbon
Way back in January 2008, when he was just a senator running for the presidency, Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle that he was the first to call for a 100 percent auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter. That way, he explained, if somebody wants to build a [conventional] coal-powered plant, they can; its just that it will bankrupt them because theyre going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas thats being emitted.
Five years later, Obama is doing what he said hed do. His plan directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to work expeditiously to complete carbon pollution standards for both new and existing power plants. The EPA is still formulating those standards, but in their current draft form they would limit new power plants to emitting 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour of electricity generated. Since conventional coal-fired plants typically emit around 1,800 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour generated, the new rule would essentially be a ban on building new coal-fired power plants.
If the EPA were to establish a uniform 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour standard, that would eliminate nearly all coal-fired plants in the United States, which generated about 37 percent of the countrys electricity last year. In comparison, natural gas plants generated 30 percent, nuclear 19 percent, hydropower 7 percent, wind 3.5 percent, biomass 1.4 percent, petroleum 1 percent, geothermal 0.4 percent, and solar 0.1 percent.
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Obama's Climate Five-Year Plan - Reason.com
..this man is absolutely horriblea lot of links in article at site
SNIP:
The president proposes ecological central planning to solve global warming
Ronald Bailey | June 28, 2013
Send to Kindle
Speaking at Georgetown University on Tuesday, President Barack Obama outlined his new national climate action plan, which amounts to a federal top-down five-year planalthough he has only four years to implement it. Obamas plan ambitiously seeks to control nearly every aspect of how Americans produce and consume energy. The goal is to cut the emissions of greenhouse gases and thus stop boosting the temperature of the earth. The actual result will be to infect the economy with the same sort of sclerosis seen in other centrally planned nations.
Lets take a look at four aspects of the Obama five-year plan: rationing carbon, boosting renewable energy and energy efficiency, subsidizing climate resilience, and negotiating international limits on emissions.
Rationing Carbon
Way back in January 2008, when he was just a senator running for the presidency, Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle that he was the first to call for a 100 percent auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter. That way, he explained, if somebody wants to build a [conventional] coal-powered plant, they can; its just that it will bankrupt them because theyre going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas thats being emitted.
Five years later, Obama is doing what he said hed do. His plan directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to work expeditiously to complete carbon pollution standards for both new and existing power plants. The EPA is still formulating those standards, but in their current draft form they would limit new power plants to emitting 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour of electricity generated. Since conventional coal-fired plants typically emit around 1,800 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour generated, the new rule would essentially be a ban on building new coal-fired power plants.
If the EPA were to establish a uniform 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour standard, that would eliminate nearly all coal-fired plants in the United States, which generated about 37 percent of the countrys electricity last year. In comparison, natural gas plants generated 30 percent, nuclear 19 percent, hydropower 7 percent, wind 3.5 percent, biomass 1.4 percent, petroleum 1 percent, geothermal 0.4 percent, and solar 0.1 percent.
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Obama's Climate Five-Year Plan - Reason.com
