Please note what happened in the U.S. Congress today:

http://my.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20110106/a1362173-928b-4246-822a-d34eb81be5c1

Note towards the bottom of the article, what one Congresswoman said:

“Capito called the EPA’s actions a power grab that would have devastating effects on the economy. Without congressional action to say otherwise, the EPA will continue to dismantle energy and manufacturing industries through regulation,” she said.

Gosh, I guess this makes several hundred Congressmen “ranting paranoid lunatics”, just like me, right?

It is like regulating clothing companies by restricting access to all known fabrics for no good reason, or regulating food companies by restricting access to all known edible substances for no particular reason. It is like telling your teenage son “Sure, you can drive the family car as much as you want. You just have to hold your breath for as long as you are behind the wheel”. All these things are profoundly dishonest and completely irrational.

Global Warming (if it exists at all) may or may not have some negative consequences, many decades from now. But these fanatical bureaurats want to intentionally and needlessly damage many American industries beginning this year.

Since no other nations are following suit, shouldn’t the EPA at least be asked what atmospheric benefits the billions of dollars in intentional damage will have for the U.S. or the world? Won’t the increase in CO2 emissions from India and China alone, more than offset the reductions caused by these regulations? Are we all idiots now? Isn’t anybody allowed to ask obvious, rational questions in America any more?

Even teenage children can quickly see that the ONLY consequences these regulations will have, is to bring the U.S. to its knees economically. But perhaps that is the real motivation of our current marxist EPA bureaucrats.