President Obama today announced his latest effort to secure his legacy in the climate change controversy. And again the American taxpayer is the loser.
The Grand Poobah of Climate Control (lloydmarcus.com)
Setting himself up to be the Grand Poobah of Climate Control at the international climate conference set for December in Paris, he revealed his Clean Power Plan, another legacy scheme that calls for compliance two years after he leaves office.
First it was ObamaCare. Remember how he introduced the plan to cover the 31 million uninsured with all of those promises? Guess what … there are still 31 million uninsured and costs are expected to skyrocket the year he leaves office.
Shortly after his 2009 inauguration, he revealed his inexperience in foreign relations when he said, “my job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy.” Now, six years later, Congress is reviewing an Iran nuclear agreement with secret side deals the president insists is our only alternative, and again it doesn’t kick in until after he leaves office.
The Clean Power Plan is his latest effort to drive a stake into the heart of the coal industry. You may recall his 2008 promise, “If someone wants to build a coal-powered plan, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.”
His Plan, concocted by a runaway EPA, requires states to draft their own plans to reduce power plant emissions to reach an overall carbon reduction target nationwide. States must be in compliance by 2018 and meet their first targets by 2022. It is estimated that the plan will cost $366 billion and bring double-digit electricity rates increases to all but a few states.
“Greens” like to repeat that Americans would be willing to pay more in energy costs, but in a recent Rasmussen Reports poll, “voters (41 percent) still aren’t willing to pay much, if anything, to fight global warming.” And just 24 percent are willing to spend only $100 more per year or $8. per month.
Here’s the kicker. The administration has admitted that the EPA plan will have only a trivial impact on climate.
Hillary Clinton, who sees climate change as a winning issue for 2016, has said, “The reality of climate change is unforgiving.” Consider ourselves warned.
