Rand Paul Vows To Repeal ‘Illegal’ EPA Climate Rule

[jct74]

Rand Paul Vows To Repeal ‘Illegal’ EPA Climate Rule

by Michael Bastasch
1:21 PM 06/02/2014

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul is not happy about the Environmental Protection Agency’s new carbon dioxide emissions limits for power plants, arguing it is an “illegal use of executive power.”

Paul has vowed to force a vote on the EPA’s rule to repeal it.

“This latest assault on our economy by President Obama will destroy jobs here in Kentucky and across the country, and will hurt middle class families by hiking their utility bills and straining their budgets,” said Paul in a statement.

“The excessive rule is an illegal use of executive power, and I will force a vote to repeal it,” Paul added.

Kentucky is the country’s third largest coal producing state and employs thousands of miners. The state has already been hard hit by federal environmental regulation which have seen thousands of coal jobs leave the state and force the closing of coal mines and power plants.

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http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/02/rand-paul-vows-to-repeal-illegal-epa-climate-rule/

[Brian4Liberty]

This is one area where McConnell should be willing to help out.

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[ClydeCoulter]

This is ridiculous!

Now, not only does one have to sue the president for overstepping his bounds (rather than impeachment), but now congress has to repeal an action by a bureaucracy? WTH?

Rule of Law my ass!

No, a healthy ass is better than that! It gets rid of shit as a normal process!

[I<3Liberty]

Rand's current stance and argument is going to make him look bad. He can't just attempt to repeal this, make an argument entirely focused on the middle class's energy expenses and job creation, and then do nothing to combat air pollution. The democrats and green party are going to use the conflicts of interest with the coal industry against Rand and easily slam his argument with bigger concerns (e.g. the consequences of air pollution and the finite supply of fossil fuels.) We'll eventually hit a point where the lack of fossil fuels will drive up prices and we'll have both an energy crisis and economic crisis.

Rand needs to propose an alternative and explain why it is both lawful and more effective. A gas tax that goes toward clean energy research would be a much better alternative. It will artificially increase prices thus, encouraging people to be more conservative with resoruces. The tax would actually benefit development and implementation of viable alternative energy resources. This will help us transition from fossil fuels to clean(er) energy which will improve air quality far more than limiting CO2 emissions from power plants.

It would also be in Rand's interest to outsmart the dems by mentioning the other emissions besides CO2 we're worried about; the EPA climate rule pretty much ignores them.

[Rocco]

Wow, there's so much wrong with this post I don't even know where to begin...

1. The middle class's energy expenses and job creation are issues that so thoroughly DWARF the "climate change" and environmental issues that it'd be suicide not to focus on them. You are literally talking about the issue that consistently is #1 in polling (job creation) vs the issue where it is most consistently shown that Americans don't care (global warming). Why would we sacrifice a rock solid job creation argument to chase some climate change rabbit that is wildly unpopular and completely unsubstantiated by evidence?

2. I can't believe I basically just heard you refer to "peak oil", I thought everyone realized by now that we've never come close to hitting peak and there's no evidence that we are going to anytime soon.

3. A gas tax? Do you even liberty, bro? Taxes don't benefit development and innovation, they crush it. The notion that government is going to innovate and come up with the solution contradicts the entire history of our country.

4. This stance would not only cripple Rand's presidential chances, but in the coal loving state of Kentucky it would immediately cast him out of the senate. They don't want to hear nonsense about how we need to take their jobs from them to pour money into research of something that we have no idea of whether it's viable or will replace those jobs. Obama's war on coal might be the #1 issue in Kentucky today, Rand CANNOT go soft on it.



Rand's current stance and argument is going to make him look bad. He can't just attempt to repeal this, make an argument entirely focused on the middle class's energy expenses and job creation, and then do nothing to combat air pollution. The democrats and green party are going to use the conflicts of interest with the coal industry against Rand and easily slam his argument with bigger concerns (e.g. the consequences of air pollution and the finite supply of fossil fuels.) We'll eventually hit a point where the lack of fossil fuels will drive up prices and we'll have both an energy crisis and economic crisis.

Rand needs to propose an alternative and explain why it is both lawful and more effective. A gas tax that goes toward clean energy research would be a much better alternative. It will artificially increase prices thus, encouraging people to be more conservative with resoruces. The tax would actually benefit development and implementation of viable alternative energy resources. This will help us transition from fossil fuels to clean(er) energy which will improve air quality far more than limiting CO2 emissions from power plants.

It would also be in Rand's interest to outsmart the dems by mentioning the other emissions besides CO2 we're worried about; the EPA climate rule pretty much ignores them.

[scottditzen]

Some interesting - and surprisingly fair, supportive comments on Reddit.

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/27578s/in_2008_rand_paul_called_coal_one_of_the_least/

[Brian4Liberty]

Rand needs to propose an alternative and explain why it is both lawful and more effective. A gas tax that goes toward clean energy research would be a much better alternative. It will artificially increase prices thus, encouraging people to be more conservative with resoruces. The tax would actually benefit development and implementation of viable alternative energy resources. This will help us transition from fossil fuels to clean(er) energy which will improve air quality far more than limiting CO2 emissions from power plants.


Uh, this is a standard leftist solution. Obama would like it, but he would never vote for Rand.