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Grassley says U.S. can’t reduce CO2 by itself
Senator Charles Grassley says Senate colleagues are in a quandary whether to pass responsible clean air legislation so that the Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t first establish even more onerous regulations. Grassley, a GOP lawmaker from Iowa, points out that neither legislative or regulatory action would be effective if only taken by the United States.
“You’d have coming out of EPA regulations then where even the director of the EPA testified before the committees that if the United States [implements clean air rules] just by itself, it’s not going to accomplish any reduction in CO2,” said Grassley during a conference call to reporters Tuesday.
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Clean air regulations or laws must consider the dependency of the United States’ Midwest and Southeast on coal-generated energy, said Grassley, and he fears they would put the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage to other countries.
“So then you get back to where it’s got to be handled anyway as an international agreement that applies the same strictures to China and India as it does to the United States so we don’t lose all of our jobs to China,” said Grassley.
Grassley says the United States acting unilaterally in implementing clean air regulations “isn’t going to reduce carbon dioxide worth a spit in the ocean.”
Lots of jobs have gone to China & more will go as well. Obama likes poor people and will not rest until we are all poorer than we are now! The politicians? Don’t worry about them, they will still be collecting our tax dollars from us – even if they have to raise our taxes to keep them living in a lifestyle they have been accustomed to.