The nanny-staters and disciples of the Church of Global Warming are getting impatient. They want their regulations and they want them now. They are filing suit against the Bush Administration because of it:

The legal move by the states to sue the Environmental Protection Agency is aimed at prodding the Bush administration to remove obstacles to more than a dozen states seeking to regulate global warming emissions from cars and trucks. In 2005, California sought a waiver from the E.P.A. that would allow it to implement the first regulation in the United States requiring reductions of greenhouse gas emissions from cars. The E.P.A. has not yet granted the waiver, keeping the regulation from taking effect.

New York, Massachusetts and a number of other states have since moved to adopt California’s measure. They cannot proceed until the E.P.A. moves on the waiver.

If implemented, the measure would first affect 2009 models; automakers have said it would make it harder to sell the largest and least fuel-efficient sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks in states that adopt the rules.

This all stems from the idea that carbon dioxide is causing Global Warming. An idea, that has little foundation in science:

No evidence can be found for catastrophic global warming from the recent rise in the air’s carbon dioxide content as a result of human activities. The elevated carbon dioxide concentration in the air has, however, had a positive impact on plant growth.

The environmentalists also have the energy companies targeted. Well, at least the coal plants anyway:

The regulations will seek to cut global warming emissions from power plants 16 percent by 2015, but that reduction is based on 1990 emissions levels. The regulations will favor alternative energy approaches, like wind power, and will not be favorable for coal producers. The plan will both cap the amount of emissions permitted and force producers to purchase allowances for their carbon emissions, encouraging them to lower their emissions.

The multistate effort was begun during the Pataki administration and involves nine other states in principle, though Massachusetts is the only other state to have put forward a similar regulation.

So, let’s walk through this: The states increase regulations making it more expensive to generate electricity, therefore increasing the bills of all the consumers. Then, some other liberal group will turn around and complain about the energy companies charging to much for energy and lobby for an increase in government aid for poor folks. In order to pay for price of the poor’s energy, the goverment will have to raise taxes, putting a bigger monetary burden on everyone. The only organization that benefits is the government.

Meanwhile, more and more of the science behind anthropogenic global warming is being debunked. But why let facts get in the way of an expansion of government power?

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