EPA would leave US in dark...
Environmental Persecution Alert: The Environmental Protection Agency may file suit on 22 of the nation's largest utilities.

The EPA bases the alleged violations on the New Source Review regulations established twenty-five years ago under the pesky Carter Administration. This apparently partisan movement against energy was, for lack of a better word, re-energized by the Clinton Administration, which originally filed some of the cases. President Bush, a fan of all lucrative forms of energy (especially the turbines that keep his pretzel warmer warm), along with other critics of the New Source Review, maintains that these onerous regulations "have been misused to target routine maintenance activities."

We Billionaires concur with our esteemed leader. What emissions are not worth the glow of big cities and casinos, or of the hum of giant presses printing crisp new bills? Let's be honest: we are a nation of comfort cravers. We could, potentially, outsource some of our emissions, by building our plants and reactors in other lands. Of course, then we'd hear cries over job loss. Face it, consumers are happy to believe that when you flip a switch, magic happens. This meshes nicely with Bush's preference for a market-based approach to energy regulation. Let's see the same kind of marketing magic that brought you Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny defeat the Big Brotheresque EPA. Power to the Powerful!

- posted by Mary Dritch