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OK, whatever. If you believe that it's not all about money and that industry will do the right thing without being regulated by the government, then continue to think it. No environmental regs and we will have a  lot more to worry about than global warming. Pass the Kool Aid.

No environmental regs and we will have a  lot more to worry about than global warming. Pass the Kool Aid.

This is very true Blitzen. But guess what? They have shipped all the manufacturing to China, where there are no regulations. So the World's air is really being polluted, by them. At the same time there are hardly any jobs here and this is wiping out the middle class.

Ninja, absolutely!!!

That's sadly true but IMO not a valid reason to allow what industry is left in this country to  govern themselves unregulated.


 

I love reading non-business people's opinions about how they think business works!

why does it have to be black and white with regards to environmental regs?

The epa is forcing many coal fired power plants shut down because they cannot cut emmisions at start up or shut down........

OK, the plant runs under the regs every day for 2 years, it has to be shut down for maintenance. For 2 years its been running under levels, but the epa will not let is start back up its over emmisions for 1 day......?

Just another silly way the epa is killing our economy.

 

Where did you learn that? I would like to see the stats on a power plant that has run for years below the acceptable levels that can't re-start at the same low level after being out of serivce for maintenance. Why can't they start back up at legal levels and how do they know that?


 

Read it in the Austin American Statesman (I think that was the one) about a year ago. One of the power plants being shut down will put many out of work east of Austin.

Global Warming? How about Earth changes.

Rare snowfall in South Africa!

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_SOUTH_AFRICA_SNOW?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-08-07-17-06-15

Ninja, since you brought that up, here's what I think could be feasible : it's known that certain colossal events such as the quake in Japan had global consequences manifesting in earth tilting on it's axes. I never saw anything that showed in which direction the tilt happened. But let's suppose that it was in a direction which would put the central US in more direct line of sun, like the angle of the tropics. Would that angle of tilt, consequently put S Africa more southerly? Just got out the trusty globe, dusted it off, shined a flash light on the equator, then tipped the globe a tad so the equator was more south of "sun". Yep, the drought stricken portion of US received more "sun" and of course S Africa, less. So it would get colder, US hotter.