Junior ALREADY Using Disaster To Ram Environmental Dereg. Through

[KittyWampus]

they are suspending Clean Air Act.

And then there is this push from just BEFORE the disaster:

WP/ New Rules Could Allow Power Plants to Pollute More

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 31, 2005; Page A04

The Bush administration has drafted regulations that would ease pollution controls on older, dirtier power plants and could allow those that modernize to emit more pollution, rather than less.

The language could undercut dozens of pending state and federal lawsuits aimed at forcing coal-fired plants to cut back emissions of harmful pollutants such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, said lawyers who worked on the cases.

The draft rules, obtained by The Washington Post from the Natural Resources Defense Council, an advocacy group, contradict the position taken by federal lawyers who have prosecuted polluting facilities in the past, and parallel the industry's line of defense against those suits. The utilities, and the proposed new rules, take the position that decisions on whether a plant complies with the regulations after modernization should be based on how much pollution it could potentially emit per hour, rather than the current standard of how much it pollutes annually.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. Exactly: they've lifted the clean air requirements for gasoline

on an "emergency" basis.

Supposedly this is going to increase the supply.

[Dr Batsen D Belfry]

3. The reason they did this is to...

eliminate the need to use all the special gasoline formulations that are normally produced by refineries during the summer months.

By eliminating this requirement, all refineries in the US can produce fewer special fuels, which will in turn increase supply, though likely in a small way.

DBDB

[KittyWampus]

5. I Can Understand Rationale... But Remember The Patriot Act? A Few

valid updates provided the base for a bill that destroyed our Civil Liberties unnecessarily.

Look for other bills or acts that are going to be linked to this.

[durablend]

9. Something like this should be permanent

But pick the lowest polluting formulation (California gas I'd guess?) and use that in all 50 states (adjusting volatility/vapor pressure based on the part of the country and season, if necessary). At least then there wouldn't be shortages in one part of the country that can't use gasoline from a different region and the economy of scale "should" even prices out.

Or is this too logical? :crazy:

[KittyWampus]

11. you've a valid point. but wouldn't it nice to pick HIGHEST Forumula &

make that the standard... in the near future.

[tk2kewl]

2. Can't people see how fucking backward everything bushCo does is?

How the fuck are more pollution and more green house gasses going to help prevent environmental disasters?

They should tighten regs.

They should tax private energy interests and spend the proceeds on creating public alternative.

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[ordinaryaveragegirl]

4. Typical

Something catastrophic happens, and * tries to ramrod some pet thing through while people aren't looking. I'm sure the people on the Gulf Coast will appreciate his continued concern *smirk* for the environment, as they wade through polluted water, barren coastlines, and seas of mosquitoes that could be carrying who-knows-what disease.

[tanyev]

6. Hijacking Catastrophe.

It's an excellent documentary about how they used 9/11 to give them the war they'd been wanting in Iraq. I hadn't thought about how they do it in other situations. Somebody's taking the time to assess any disaster and ask "Hmmmmm. How can we use this to our benefit?"

[Justitia]

7. No kidding! How f'ing obvious can they be????? -eom

[Zuni]

8. as if they aren't making enough profits

they whine and cry about environmental regulations like a bunch of toddlers who can't get their way.

pathetic.

Bush is going to cause even more pollution, more sickness, more destruction. As if the environment wasn't polluted enough.

What a fucking asshole

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. He's just going to Houstonize the rest of the Country. nt

[KittyWampus]

12. Zuni, in part I think it's an addiction. And needing to feel the power

because they're dead inside and want to feel something.

[txaslftist]

13. Good Lord. What an awful man.

I pity him (Wish he would resign or be indicted) but I still pity him.

How must it feel to be so small? Small of heart, small of intellect, small of imagination?

He's the clockwork president.