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October 24, 2006
And This Is Why You Don't Let The GOP Control Anything, Especially Not The EPA!!
Under existing rules, ethanol plants are considered major sources of air pollution if they emit more than 100 tons of toxic chemicals per year. It this is the case, they are subject to an intensive permit process as well as being forced to install pollution equipment that would eliminate up to 95 percent of their emissions. After the proposed changes take effect, new ethanol plants will not be subject to the stringent federal requirements unless they emit more than 250 tons of pollution per year. Michael Hawthorne, the author's article, adds that most new refineries are expected to emit just below the 250 ton limit. As a result, a plant that emits 200 tons of pollution per year could currently be required to reduce its emissions to 10 tons, while the proposed rule changes would require little or nothing be done by the polluting plant.
You take a good idea (alternative fuels) and you put the GOP laced EPA (which shouldn't be under either party's control, but that's a rant for another time) and you end up with disaster! They just don't get it and unfortunately they never will. This kind of thing is asinine at worst and completely ignorant at best. The simple fact of the matter is this: IF YOU DESTROY THE ENVIRONMENT, WHICH YOU SEEM HELL BENT TO DO, THERE WILL BE NO ECONOMY!! The two are NOT mutually exclusive of one another. The economy depends on a healthy environment. That's just the way the cookie crumbles. Do these idiots have to completely destroy the environment to figure that out? Apparently so. It's very disheartening.
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Posted by Dianne at October 24, 2006 9:38 AM
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