Do you remember last week's press that the White House would not open emails from the EPA? They reported that the EPA was trying to publish a report on how greenhouse gases could be regulated, and that if they weren't then citizens would be "endangered"? But the White House would not open the EPA's emails!!
Monday's Wall Street Journalhas received a copy of the squelched report and it concludes:
REGULATIONS ARE FEASIBLE
HARM WILL FLOW TO US CITIZENS IF THEY ARE NOT ENACTED
THE SAVINGS TO CITIZENS FROM THE REGULATIONS WILL BE UP TO $2 TRILLION
The madness of Bush and Cheney has reached epoch proportions. As the Journal reports, they are trying to tie the hands of a President Obama or McCain (please, no McCain.)
Clearly [White House officials] don't want to leave behind a blueprint that suggests that the Clean Air Act could offer a potential pathway in a cost-effective way to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions," said one of the people close to the matter who supports the EPA document's analysis. "Leaving a blueprint behind could leave the next administration a document they could work from, and that's not in their interest," the person said..
For instance, here are the details on the savings available for motor vehicles.
The EPA draft document concludes that motor vehicles could be even more fuel efficient than currently required by law. Based on advanced technologies such as plug-in hybrid vehicles, fuel efficiency could be improved to well above 35 miles per gallon between 2020 and 2025, it says. A 2007 energy law that has been supported by the Bush administration mandates an average vehicle fuel-efficiency of 35 miles per gallon by 2020.
The madmen in the White House must be stopped.