By law, EPA must set the air quality standard based on what the
best science says is safe to breathe, and not on how much it will cost to get
there. Still, EPA said the economic benefits would outweigh the costs by a wide
margin: Under the strictest version of EPA’s proposal, the costs in 2025 would
amount to $16.6 billion, compared with $21.2 billion to $42.1 billion in benefits,
including a reduction in illnesses and premature deaths.
“This would be the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the
American public,” said the National Association of Manufacturers, in a July study
calculating that an especially strict version of the rule would wipe out $3.4
trillion in economic output and 2.9 million jobs by 2040.
The existing ozone standard, created by the George W. Bush
administration in 2008, set a limit of 75 parts per billion, despite
recommendations by EPA’s science advisers to place it between 60 and 70 —
ideally, at the lower end of that range. The advisers have repeated that
recommendation several times since.
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Credibility
for government science is at an all-time low. The global warming hoax perpetrated
by the UN has caused us to question any claim that air standards should be
tightened any time soon. Ozone has been with us forever. It is created by
lightening. It consists of 3 Oxygen molecules. Not long ago it was considered
beneficial. Carbon has also been with us
forever but the EPA lists it as a pollutant. Carbon dioxide feeds plants. Also,
we appear to be entering a cooling cycle and could probably benefit from more
carbon dioxide, not less. This same
government doesn’t appear to do anything else right, so trust in their “science”
is dead and the costs are too high. The $16 billion in cost would land on our
electric bills. The benefits cited have no basis in fact.
We are in
a government created economic death spiral. The one thing we are sure of is
that our government wants to crash our economy and morph the US into a 3rd
World slave region under a UN fronted Marxist global government controlled by
the Global Banksters.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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