EPA Set To Decimate Coal Industry In Obama 2nd Term

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Obama EPA second term agenda revealed
POSTED AT 6:01 PM ON NOVEMBER 4, 2012 BY JAZZ SHAW

If you thought the War on Coal and various other job dampening EPA initiatives over the past few years were bad, apparently that was only a skirmish compared to what’s in store after this Tuesday. At the Examiner, Conn Carroll has the inside scoop on how Santa’s little elves at Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency have been very busy lately. But you might not care for the presents they have in mind for us all.

President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has devoted an unprecedented number of bureaucrats to finalizing new anti-coal regulations that are set to be released at the end of November, according to a source inside the EPA.  

More than 50 EPA staff are now crashing to finish greenhouse gas emission standards that would essentially ban all construction of new coal-fired power plants. Never before have so many EPA resources been devoted to a single regulation. The independent and non-partisan Manhattan Institute estimates that the EPA’s greenhouse gas coal regulation will cost the U.S. economy $700 billion.

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Obama's America: 2015 Energy Prices 800% Higher

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Lost in the fog of the 2012 Presidential campaign is what the state of power is going to be in less than three years.

This is one campaign promise that Obama has definitely fulfilled.  In 2008, Obama stated "electricity prices would necessarily skyrocket" under his plan of cap and trade.  Unable to get Cap and Trade legislation through Congress, Obama has unleashed the EPA on the coal industry.
The result?  212 coal plants shut down by 2015, eliminating over hundreds of megawatts of electrical production.  Coal mines are being shut down all over the country.  Ohio, West Virginia, and the other coal-producing states are being hit especially hard. Tens of thousands of jobs are being eliminated in the coal industry, and supporting industries.  These coal mines, once abandoned, cannot be reopened due to deterioration of the mine.  The loss of this power production will also have a devastating effect on the manufacturing industry as a whole. You can't produce goods if there is no power.
A recent capacity auction saw 2015 power go for $167 per megawatt.  The price for 2012 was $36.  An 800% increase!
Obama is sacrificing the industrial might of the United States for his core belief of the inherent unfairness of America in the world.  What better way to "even the playing field" than removing our ability to compete economically on the world stage?  His solar and windmill energy policy is risking America's future on the belief that the sun will shine, and the wind will blow 24/7.
The damage that Obama is wreaking on this country is now such, that some of it will not be able to be undone, as with the coal mines. It has never been more important to defeat Obama in November than it is now if we are to turn around those things which we are able to, and minimize the future damage of his policies.
Are you listening Ohio?

Mine Succumbs To Obama's War On Coal, Ohio  
Higher Future Electricity Prices Expected

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President 'Strawman' Obama Resurrects Romney Dog On Car Story

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National embarrassment Barack Obama, unable to defend his own failed policies, is back to dredging up years-old stories.  In an apparent reference to the story of Mitt Romney placing his dog, which was safely inside a container, on the roof of the family car when they went on vacation in 1983, Obama attempted to deflect attention from his war on coal and oil, and defending his policy of wind, solar power, and ethanol subsidies.

Obama's promise of causing coal plants "to go bankrupt" is well underway. About 100 out the nation's over 500 coal plants are due to shut down in the next few years.  While Obama is flippantly talking about Romney's dog, thousands of jobs are on the cutting block in this struggling economy. Also missing from his message is the drastic increase in electric rates that consumers will pay as a large percentage of the power is removed from the nation's power grid, thus creating an electricity shortage.  So, on top of paying a lot more for your electricity, many Americans can expect to see more rolling brownouts for their financial troubles.

Obama is left with these home-spun straw-men stories to assuage his zombie-like followers,  because he knows that he can't tout his own policies.  So, we are left with jokes about Mitt Romney and his dog.

The one thing that we can be reasonably assured of is that Mitt Romney won't be talking about Barack Obama shopping his new book around, the sure to be bestseller "101 Ways to Wok Your Dog".



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