Stop the War on Coal
June 8, 2012 at 10:21 am in News by Website Tech Guy 13 Comments
Stop the War on Coal by INSISTING on a YES vote from your Senators on Senate Joint Resolution 37 (S. J. Res. 37), the Inhofe Resolution.
PASSION: This week’s Passion to Action focuses on our efforts to stop another push to increase your utility bills. If you remember, the President warned us that under his Cap and Trade plan, electricity rates would “necessarily skyrocket,” as coal plants would have to be retrofitted and the costs passed on to consumers.
We need to let our Senators know that we disagree. Coal is a plentiful, useful and safe source of electrical power. Many people and many small business “job creators” are dependent on coal to provide consistent low cost energy. At a time when the economy is struggling, this is one of Mr. Obama’s worst ideas. Click here to learn more.
BACKGROUND: Democrats have owned the “global warming will kill us” issue for several decades, but some Republicans , like Senator John McCain, author of the Lieberman-McCain Climate Stewardship Act of 2003, and former congressman Bob Inglis helped to make it a bipartisan issue beginning in 2003. Bob Inglis lost his seat in 2010 and John McCain nearly did as well. In fact, when you look at the voting records of incumbents who were replaced in that election, you might say that the 2010 mid-term elections were a referendum on “Cap and Trade”. It lost, and when it did, President Obama said, ““Cap and trade was just one way of skinning the cat; it was not the only way. It was a means, not an end.” For source, click here.
Instead of Cap and Trade, the Obama Administration has been attempting to reinterpret old laws like the 1970 Clean Air Act to turn them into global warming laws. Their latest regulation is called the Utility Maximum Achievable Control Technology (UMACT) rule (aka MACT, aka “Mercury and Air Toxics Standards” and/or “MATS”). Implementing Utility MACT will raise the cost of coal generated electricity an average of 20% nationally. Unfortunately, there are no environmental benefits associated with the program, but there is a benefit for the President; he gets to keep his word to the Environmental Left to make coal so expensive that alternative energy sources might compete with it. Does this look like a political pay-off to supporters and cronies? It might to someone suspicious of government, someone like you and me. So here’s what we are going to do:
TAKE ACTION: Call your Senators TODAY and ask them to vote for S.J. Res. 37, the Inhofe Resolution to overturn Utility MACT. The vote is expected next week. Here are some talking points: This one rule will increase electricity prices 10 to 20 percent nationally.
1. Increasing utility costs on small businesses that could be creating jobs in this weak economy is irresponsible.
2. What this country needs is more freedom for energy producers and fewer, but smarter regulations. CLICK HERE for more detailed information.
3. Inhofe’s resolution will overturn one of the EPA’s most expensive regulations, the Utility MACT. CLICK HERE for more detailed information.
Wish a budget could be done. Sadly it seems more important to increase my utility cost. Get real about protecting my standard of living -Got to balance economics & environmental concerns & put both in perspective with reality. Rein in the EPA
Balance budget, low energy cost (we have all it takes), less government. Lets take the EPA out of business
IT’S ABOUT TIME WE PUT THE SCREWS TO THE EPA. THEIR REGULATIONS ARE KILLING OUR ECONOMY.
Coal is and has been,one of our greatest resources and ways can be found to use it in a clean environmental way! My Dad was a coal miner in eastern Ky many years ago,along with several brothers and it was a difficult,dangerous and dirty job,but it was an honest way of making a living! One of his brothers lost his leg in a mine cave-in ,how-ever he was proud to be a coal miner! Miners are hard working,brave souls who need their jobs and they need government backing and so i call upon Senator Mitch McConnell and Senator Rand Paul of Ky.to vote for S.J.Res.37 to keep down the cost of electricity! Barack Obama is a threat to coal mining and a failure to America!
Its amazing how much energy resoures we have in the United States of America alone. The EPA is as worse then Obama. Sure, we want to protect the environment, but these environmentalists are completely insane. Anything, they can do to stop production they will do. Unleash the energy sector of all types responsibly ,and use the tax revenues to pay down national debt and balance budgets.
Coal is king in this country. I work at a company that manufactures air pollution control equipment and we can burn coal cleanly and safely. The EPA is going too far with their demands to meet emission rates that we don’t even have equipment sensitive enough to measure!!!
The president is not trying to make coal expensive so it can compete with alternative energy sources. He is just trying to regulate the industry because like any other, it cares more about profit than about the impact on the environment and people’s health.
Great comment Rachel. Finally someone wit comm9on sense
Below is part of an article on “The Foundry” site:
After coming under fire for its consistent hostility to the coal industry, the Obama campaign quietly adjusted its energy policy website to include “clean coal” among the president’s energy initiatives.
The energy policy page of BarackObama.com now includes a section for “clean coal,” claiming the stimulus package “invested substantially in carbon capture and sequestration research.”
But until recently, that page made no mention of coal. Its Google cache shows a section for “energy efficiency” where “clean coal” now appears.
The change comes mere days after Obama lost 41% of the vote in the Democratic primary in West Virginia – a state heavily reliant on the coal industry – to a convicted felon and current federal inmate.
The chairman of the WV Democratic Party blamed Obama’s poor showing on his stance on coal energy. “A lot of folks here have real frustration with this administration’s stance on coal and energy,” said state Democratic chairman Larry Puccio. “They are frustrated and they are upset, and they wanted to send Obama a message.”
My Okla Senior is behind the Res..S.J.Res.37 and he’s right.
I meant My Okla Senior Sen Inhofe is bhind Res. S.J.Res. 37 and he is right to do so.
Cal and the others are right. It all points to one inevitable outcome though… no where if Obama retains the Presidency and we only keep one side of Congress. This is outright targeting of one of our most valuable natural resources.
We must be aware of this issue and act. Defeat Obama and win conservative control of the HOuse and Senate. Then maybe we can close the doors of the UN and send the EPA out the door at the same time.
Get rid of them all.
The war on coal and oil have nothing to do with the environment. They have everything to do with shifting govt dollars to the economies of liberal states.
I think the US should have ratified the Kyoto Protocol, it would have made new business (for conservatives) and supplied liberals with their whole save the environment thing.