Your Opinion: Onerous EPA regulations are real

Dear Editor:

I've done some research. The historical data is irrefutable. The climate is changing. According to historical data it has always been changing.

However, to attribute future climate change to the use of fossil fuels and carbon dioxide levels requires a religious-like faith in computer models (that can't seem to get it right) and the agendas of those (who now talk about climate change instead of global warming) interpreting the results.

But, let's just assume that something should be done to reduce carbon levels. The Obama EPA proposes to do so with regulations that force highly reliable, efficient and low-cost power plants to close and be replaced with wind and solar generation.

Promising technologies, but how will the lights stay on at night when the wind isn't blowing? And no there is no commercially available electricity storage technology or battery to store electricity.

The EPA proposed regulations are onerous because they do virtually nothing to reduce carbon dioxide in the world but do institute certainty of increasing electric bills in the United States.

The reason this is so is that the EPA's proposed rules will reduce the worlds annual emission of "manmade" carbon dioxide by only 2 percent and as the rest of the world, including China, India, and Brazil continue to increase their use of fossil fuels the EPA reduction approaches 1 percent.

Really, this is a fix? If carbon dioxide is a real problem then EPA is not proposing a real solution. What's really going on is an attempt to soften up taxpayers to ideas to pick (probably a carbon tax will do) their pocket and the give money to developing countries to "prepare" for climate change. The real reason for international meetings to talk about climate change is to figure out how much the United States owes the rest of the world. Americans will not stand for this unless they believe that they are saving the world.

Follow the money. We should applaud Sen. Blunt and Rep. Luetkemeyer for stopping onerous rules that produce higher electric bills, collect taxes to give money to foreign countries and place American jobs at risk. Just ask the folks that used to work at the Chamois Power Plant if onerous EPA regulations are real.