{"id":2487,"date":"2010-12-28T18:55:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T22:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2010-12-28T18:55:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T22:55:19","slug":"month-12-day-29-i-came-for-the-waters-i-was-misinformed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-12-day-29-i-came-for-the-waters-i-was-misinformed\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 12, Day 29: I Came For The Waters.  I Was Misinformed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Orange County Register <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/opinion\/regulations-281791-congress-epa.html\">fumes about the EPA&#8217;s intention to step up its regulatory regime<\/a>.  It&#8217;z FASHIZM, I TELZ YA, FASHIZM!<\/p>\n<p>They bring in a Pollution lobbyist, a former Bush apparatchik, to spew forth his particular brand of noxious nonsense:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;If the regulations actually force companies to make meaningful emission reductions, they will drive up energy costs and be very expensive,&#8221; observed Jeffrey R. Holmstead, who headed the EPA&#8217;s air and radiation office under President George W. Bush and now represents utilities and other greenhouse emitters that would be affected.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I thought I&#8217;d unpack that quote a bit.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jeffrey Holmstead&#8217;s statement that forced emissions reductions will increase the cost of energy is misleading, and his clients (greenhouse gas emitters) pay him well for his obfuscation.  Let&#8217;s examine his words closely.  First, it is only in a short-term sense that fossil fuels are cheap; if we factor in the costs of cleanup, health effects, and the costly wars we wage to protect our sources, it&#8217;s clear that oil and coal were never inexpensive to begin with.  Second, energy companies have never been particularly reluctant to pass along higher prices to the consumer; they&#8217;re worried about their profits, not our savings.  Third, the costs of failure on climate change will dwarf the costs of action.  The EPA&#8217;s regulatory initiatives are essential elements of a robust and meaningful climate policy, which could save us trillions over the next century.  When floodwaters are rising, only fools complain about the price of sandbags.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orange County Register fumes about the EPA&#8217;s intention to step up its regulatory regime. It&#8217;z FASHIZM, I TELZ YA, FASHIZM! They bring in a Pollution lobbyist, a former Bush apparatchik, to spew forth his particular brand of noxious nonsense: &#8220;If the regulations actually force companies to make meaningful emission reductions, they will drive up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[467,253,304,207],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-assholes","tag-denialists","tag-epa","tag-idiots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}