The scope and power of the future EPA can be changed.

[buickanddeere]

I don't see an empire of power and control backing off on any regulations. There are those in the EPA who won't stop until all ride in electric vehicles, electric trains or bicycles. And live on a vegan diet.   

[LowGear]

Let's see.  Watch the paint dry or wallow back through this EPA thread.

Nobody here wants  dirty air and polluted water. How can you say that ?

I'm just reading between the lines - out-loud or is that loud-mouth. 

Nice stuff costs more.  Try and convince a person that waits in traffic for 12 minutes (easy math assumption) each day that they are paying one hour of taxes a week.  You and I realize that's more than a 40 hour week's pay per year.  But hey!  Building that new lane or adding that electric mass transit tax wasn't levied upon them.  They sure beat the bureaucrats this time!  The hidden taxes of conservativism.  And what do you have at the end of the tax period.  Answer for both scenarios.

Oh don't you dare raise the fuel tax a penny!  How about 1000 miles a month in a 25 MPG vehicle.  That's 40 gallons of gasoline per month.  So if we raised the gas tax by 10 cents a gallon that would be $4 a month.  That's just ridiculous.  Outrageous!  How many dollars in road improvements would we be getting from the people that actually use the roads?

So get out your plotting calculators or smart phones and see where the $4 a month becomes cheaper than the a 40 hour work week.  So many assumptions.

Yup, you're making about $160 a week setting in your car.  And we continue to set in that traffic while the socialist societies whisk around in bullet trains in China, Japan, France and The United Kingdom pretty soon.

Does the person in the idling car want dirty air - zero miles for burnt gas = dirty air OR is that person just too cheap to spend a dime in order to same a dollar.  Does the EPA factor traffic jambs into their MPG?  Should the EPA mandate variable cylinders and engine stop at rest?

Nobody here wants  dirty air and polluted water. How can you say that ?

Oops; the paints dry.


Cheers,

[lowspeedlife]

Haven't been here in  while, glad to see its not changed.
The EPA is out of control on just about everything they do. Do I want dirty air & water ? No, I do want to live with out being harassed by some government stooge with an inflated sense of his/her own worth. When a government agency can come on to your property, zoned for a residence, that you have already started to construct a legally permitted house and find a puddle after a rain storm and claim it as a wetland, demand that you stop construction & return the property to its former condition or be fined $32,000 a day. Then explain to you that you have no recourse unless they start a court case against you. That's out of control. Are they costing the country jobs? I guarantee it, just ask anyone who worked for the coal industry. That's about half of my family. I live outside Washington DC & I remember old days of brown air & the Potomac river smelling so bad you would not want to get near it. Those days are gone, the EPA had a lot to do with that but it was also a change in people's way of thinking about the world. Now they need some thing to keep themselves occupied. Case in point, the current Ozone standards have not been fully implemented but they already want to make them more restrictive. To a point where the air in Yellowstone park will not meet standard.

And now back to Casey! How you been? Got that Witte runnin'?

Scott R