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The EPA is choking democracy

hypocritexposer

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They sure do seem to be going for broke on the government control this year!

The EPA is choking democracy
The agency's sweeping new power to battle global warming is another example of the weakening of democratic controls.
Jonah Goldberg
April 21, 2009
» Discuss Article One of the most important events of our lifetimes may have just transpired. A federal agency has decided that it has the power to regulate everything, including the air you breathe.

Nominally, the Environmental Protection Agency's announcement last Friday only applies to new-car emissions. But pretty much everyone agrees that the ruling opens the door to regulating, well, everything.

According to the EPA, greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide -- the gas you exhale -- as well as methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride. It is literally impossible to imagine a significant economic or human activity that does not involve the production of one of these gases. Don't think just of the gas and electricity bills. Cow flatulence is a serious concern of the EPA's already. What next? Perhaps an EPA mandarin will pick up a copy of "The Greenpeace Guide to Environmentally Friendly Sex" and go after the root causes of global warming.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-goldberg21-2009apr21,0,6067431.column
 
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