President Obama has staked his legacy on climate change.

Looks like a non-starter that has no hope of ever going anywhere.

 

IMO that's what is likely to happen because Mr Obama doesn't have the political capital available, and there are "battleground" states negatively affected by these regulations. I think the regulations will stay tied up in court past Obama's time in office and will be erased by whatever new president steps in.

 

since nothing is getting voted on and Obama is just doing all this by fiat, if he wants them to stick, he needs to tie them to handouts (credits, subsidies). The government will cut you a $1k check for installing a solar panel, etc.

How he can do that without Congress I have no idea, but he couldn't care less.

once you get people on the dole, it's harder to repeal

just look at the ethanol mandate, everyone agrees it's awful environmentally and economically, but we can't get rid of it

 

Election demagoguery.

His "legacy" will be Gay Rights and Iran. He's been a fraud everywhere else. He'll be "credited" with the ACA but it is so horrible people will eventually blame him for it.

 

the idiots are winning on this board by sheer relentlessness. really why bother anymore?

 

Who wrote these regulations? The natural gas lobby?

 

yep!!

Many in Nation Tired of Explaining Things to Idiots

 

But we must try...

As Obamacare Takes Hold, Unpaid Hospital Bills Vanish

"A new report in Forbes, by Bruce Japsen, who has covered healthcare and healthcare policies for over 20 years, says that as the law begins to help more and more people, more and more of its benefits are being seen. The latest discovery about Obamacare is that unpaid hospital bills have been drastically declining, in both number and cost."

 

Obama has more charisma, passion and knowledge than any dumbass, idiot undeducated Republican candidate.

 

this will be a regressive tax on the poor in the form of higher energy bills, and no one actually thinks it will cool the Earth

 

Another brilliant move by Obama. He's going on the offensive and forcing the wingnuts to react. The way he's outplayed the Republicans for the last 7 years and gotten so much good accomplished is nothing short of astounding. The best, most effective, President of since Roosevelt.

 

Cool the earth? No ****. The damage is DONE! who gives a flying **** about our great grand kids right?

 

I never know who's trolling and who's serious in here.

 

Imagine the savings on the reduction in heating days. Heating costs > Cooling costs.

Source: http://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/

 

A lot of what should be sarcasm probably isn't.

 

It is definitely hard to tell. I've found that no matter what, reading most of the D&D threads in the voice of an excited old-timey radio announcer greatly enhances the experience.

 

What-a-ya say that for old sport?

 

I read them as Alec Baldwin doing Tony Bennett.

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