hypocritexposer
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They sure do seem to be going for broke on the government control this year!
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-goldberg21-2009apr21,0,6067431.column
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