You do remember Gov. Perry’s big time statement on secession, don’t you? Sure, he’s all blow and no go, but it was effective at getting people’s minds off of his HPV vaccine mandate, the Trans Texas Corridor land grab, the new tax on businesses, and the gold plated rest stops. Why, he suddenly became the people’s champion!
Of course, that didn’t last and the Gov. needed something new for publicity. So, he’s suing the EPA, sort of, in a non-confrontational, non-secessional way. The last thing that Gov. Perry is going to do is tick off the Obama administration by actually doing something. Otherwise, they might take back that $12 billion dollars he begged for to balance the state budget.
As you probably know, the EPA has decided to regulate CO2. You know, the stuff that human beings exhale?
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
For the first time in a regulatory program, lifecycle analysis of GHG emissions is being utilized to establish those fuels that qualify for the different renewable fuel standards. Based on our lifecycle analysis, we believe that the expanded use of renewable fuels would provide significant reductions in GHG emissions over time, such as carbon dioxide. To determine the GHG impacts of the RFS2 program, EPA analyses considered the full useful life assessment of the production of biofuels compared to the petroleum-based fuels they would replace. Based on a combined use of various models, we have analyzed the lifecycle GHG emissions for a number of pathways for producing the increased volumes of renewable fuels that are mandated by EISA. The incremental volumes of each biofuel type were then evaluated to determine their average impact on GHG emissions compared to the 2005 baseline petroleum fuel they would be displacing.
We estimate the greater volumes of biofuel mandated by RFS2 will reduce GHG emissions from transportation by a total of 6.8 billion tons CO2 equivalent when measured over a 100 year timeframe and discounted at 2{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986}. This is equivalent to approximately 160 million tons CO2 equivalent per year. Determining lifecycle GHG emissions values for renewable fuels using a 0{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986} discount rate over 30 years would result in a total of 4.5 billion tons CO2 equivalent, which is equivalent to an annual average reduction of 150 million tons of CO2 equivalent. These reductions would be primarily in the form of carbon dioxide, with small contributions from other greenhouse gases. The reductions would be equivalent to taking about 24 million vehicles off the road.
Well, Gov. Perry is going to “fight” back! Why, he’s having Attorney General Gregg Abbott take them to court! Complete with a long press release! How’s about them secession apples? I suppose it is better than nothing.
But wait – Debra Medina has been saying for over a year that the first agency We Texans need to take on is…get this…the EPA! And not with a lawsuit arguing about their test results but with a lawsuit saying that you have no authority to regulate anything in Texas, SO GET THE HECK OUT! And she has never brought up secession – just that little old U.S. Constitution, using the court system to prove her point. In fact, I happen to have a short clip of her talking about it.
Debra Medina – Stop the EPA (click here to download )
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I really like the part about us being the frog sitting in water as it starts to boil – I think it fits perfectly. Do take the time to listen.
So all you Medina haters out there that like to ridicule and mock to try and marginalize her can listen and weep. If you methods do work to move voters away from Medina, I hope like heck that they do the right thing and move to Sen. Hutchison.
Just for fun (and to give the Perry supporters something else to mock), here’s a little video tribute to that Funky Deb Medina by her campaign manager, Penny Langford Freeman.
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