The Wrong Tool for CO2

Oct 16, 2008

We have posted extensively on the foolishness of using the Clean Air Act to regulate CO2, and presented extensive evidence on the negative impact to our economy. 

But you don't have to trust us; you can trust the person whose agency would have to do the implementation:

EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson said in July. The law ``is the wrong tool for the job.'' (Bloomberg)

How wrong of a tool? Well let's put it this way...

Imagine you have a lawn; you have an average sized American lawn, about 1/3 of an acre. You can get away with a normal push mower; it takes you about an hour to mow. Or, if you have triple the time to spare, you can go with a push reel mower.

Ok. Now let that 1/3 of an acre represent the six existing Clean Air Act criteria pollutants and the time it takes to mow, the impact on the economy. Then one day St. Victoria, Patron Saint of Bad Decisions, comes along and expands your lawn - by six acres. Oh, and these guys replace your lawn mower with currently available alternative technology.

You now spend all of your time mowing your lawn, your children hate you, your spouse leaves you, your boss fires you, and your only recreation is lying in the perpetually uncut grass watching windmill blades turn.  Sorry, scratch that last one. ...and your only recreation is lying in the perpetually uncut grass watching a local environmental group shut down the construction of a wind farm.

Write Congress today and just make it stop.

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