Looks like the Trumpistas are aiming their harpoons at another whale:
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin said that the agency will review the agency’s endangerment finding — the “holy grail of the climate change religion” that has created over a trillion dollars in regulatory impact.
Wut dat? Breitbart explains:
The finding stated that greenhouse gas emissions are an alleged threat to public health and welfare.
And when you look at the data which supposedly supports the finding, it, like most other “environmental” data, is a bunch of codswallop.
The EPA proceeded in an unorthodox manner. Slicing and dicing the language of the statute, it made an “endangerment finding” totally separate from any actual rulemaking-setting standards for emissions from cars. EPA argued it had the authority to do this because Congress didn’t specifically forbid it from taking this approach. By taking this approach, the endangerment finding intentionally ignored costs of regulations that EPA knew would follow from the finding — and indeed ignored any other policy impacts of those regulations.
Results (that you or I would care about)?
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, the director of the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment at the Heritage Foundation, said that the EPA regulations that arose from the endangerment finding have contributed to automobile prices to rise from $23,000 in 2009 to nearly $50,000 now.
The EPA has relied on the endangerment finding for seven vehicle regulations that reportedly have an aggregate cost of more than one trillion dollars, according to the agency’s own regulatory impact analyses.
We all knew that enviro-bullshit was behind so much of the price increases — that, and the raft of “safety” regulations that accompanied them.
My message to Sec. Lee Zeldin:
Get rid of that stuff.
Me, I’d like to see the FedGov refund some of that trillion-dollar price increase to everyone who bought cars and trucks — internal-combustion-driven cars and trucks, that is — from 2009 until today.
Why? Because it was taken from these buyers by government malfeasance.
And if our current government wants to “claw back” some of that money from the people and organizations who instigated this swindle, that would be fine, too.
The EPA has definitely gone too far with its meddling in our society. Many at the EPA deserve to be tossed out of work for good.
My latest post on Xwitter. Is there [taps microphone] anyone here who can make sense of the data?
https://x.com/davebigboote/status/1913202353844465935?s=46&t=KGTcGZZEC5kBHwu2p1VLDw
Mr. Du Toit:
I’m afraid I’ll have to disagree with this approach for one very simple reason:
What one appointed techno-bureaucrat can decree, the next can override and un-decree.
What absolutely HAS to happen is to stop all of this nonsense with “executive orders”, and have Trump kick some serious ass with the House and Senate to actually PASS LEGISLATION that will enact these things. Do them as single bills, one at a time (yeah, we’ll need several hundred of them for each thing, from energy “efficiency” standards for appliances, to eliminating the Department of “Education” as a cabinet position, to overall reach of the EPA). That way we can see the members of the House and Senate vote either for them or against them. A nice, binary, black-or-white choice, up-or-down, yea or nay. This will have several effects, not the least of which will be for the 2026 elections:
– Each member of Congress will have those votes on record, which can be used for them in re-election, or against them (if they’re stupid enough to vote against barring men from women’s sports for example) in the primaries.
– This will in turn force the RINO’s in both House and Senate to re-assess their probability for re-election, and possibly force them to get their shit together and join in re-establishing the former United States of America and stop it’s slide into the People’s Republic of Gobbledegook.
The other aspect is that it will lend some degree of stability to the country’s laws rather than the “regime uncertainty” we currently have. Take just one example: Trump’s latest EO on coal-fired power plants, attempting to fast-track regulatory approvals. A power plant takes years to site, plan, and build, and there is no way anybody can source one in the 3 years left of Trump’s term. After what happened to the pipeline that Trump put through with an EO, and that the Biden cabal shit-canned with another EO, a major corporation or power company would be insane to trust that Trump’s EO would last more than a millisecond under a new regime in 2028.
This would require an immense amount of hard work to get legislation introduced, shepherded through the process without being mangled (by either the Dem-wing or the RINO’s), and an enormous staff of legal experts dedicated to nothing but writing the legislation to do all of these things, making sure that they are all meeting the necessary Constitutional requirements. So far I see nothing on the horizon that makes me believe that the bloviating sales-twit actually has the patience to implement this, so he’d have to delegate this to someone who could (which is why DeSantis would have been a good Veep with his administrative and legislative abilities).
Please note: I cannot stand Trump. But I’ve voted for the SOB in three different elections. In 2016 it was a simple choice of bloviating sales-twit versus Felonia VonPantsuit. In 2020 I’d have crawled naked over broken glass to vote for him for a second term, but Gropey-Dopey Joe’s cabal successfully frauded the election to give us President LOLeightyonemillion. 2024 was even simpler since it was obvious that Harris was incapable of Velcroing her own shoes, and we’d simply have had Obama’s fourth term turning the country collectivist.
It’s not necessary to like him to support him, but I believe that the entire Trump administration is going about it the wrong way, with nothing but publicized grandstanding and no actual binding legislation behind it. Basically I agree with the goals but not the methods. It’s much harder to overturn an actual law than to simply issue a rescinding EO. I hope the useless RINO’s in the House and Senate start getting their assess seriously kicked into action by forcing them to actually VOTE up or down on these issues so their constituents can see where the stand (or lie, or slither).
As you say, until
//…the useless RINO’s in the House and Senate start getting their assess seriously kicked into action …//
all that the Trumpians can do is issue ‘orders’ that mostly depend on the faith, hope, and charity of those who carry them out. Not much, probably not enough, but it’s what’s available. .
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Blackie,
I don’t disagree with a single thing you’ve said.