Gonna make them worse.....
EPA Regs to Close 10 Coal Plants in Michigan
Miners better start updating their resumes....(like who the hell will hire men with their skills....?)
EPA energy killers
That's the situation today. Four years from now, who knows?
Between now and then, DTE will have to shutter 10 coal-burning units, reducing capacity by 20 percent to meet new Environmental Protection Agency regulations on coal plants.
Updating the plants to comply with the new EPA standards in the three-year period allowed would be massively expensive. So DTE will take them off line.
That will reduce reserves to 6 percent and leave the system vulnerable to blackouts on scorching hot days like the ones we've had this month.
Kurmas says to expect electricity bills to soar by 25 to 35 percent. For residential customers, that'll leave less money to spend on other goods and services, further closing the damper on the economy.
For power-intensive businesses, such as manufacturers, it will mean higher operating costs that will have to be offset either by raising prices or trimming workers.
The consequences of the coal mandate will be huge. And yet such a momentous change was pushed through by regulatory fiat, without a vote by our elected representatives.
President Barack Obama has proven wholly inept at putting Americans back to work. But as an economy killer, he is without equal.
From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110731/OPINION03/107310303/EPA-raises-risk-of-blackouts#ixzz1U0v2UyWh
EPA Regs to Close 10 Coal Plants in Michigan
Miners better start updating their resumes....(like who the hell will hire men with their skills....?)
EPA energy killers
That's the situation today. Four years from now, who knows?
Between now and then, DTE will have to shutter 10 coal-burning units, reducing capacity by 20 percent to meet new Environmental Protection Agency regulations on coal plants.
Updating the plants to comply with the new EPA standards in the three-year period allowed would be massively expensive. So DTE will take them off line.
That will reduce reserves to 6 percent and leave the system vulnerable to blackouts on scorching hot days like the ones we've had this month.
Kurmas says to expect electricity bills to soar by 25 to 35 percent. For residential customers, that'll leave less money to spend on other goods and services, further closing the damper on the economy.
For power-intensive businesses, such as manufacturers, it will mean higher operating costs that will have to be offset either by raising prices or trimming workers.
The consequences of the coal mandate will be huge. And yet such a momentous change was pushed through by regulatory fiat, without a vote by our elected representatives.
President Barack Obama has proven wholly inept at putting Americans back to work. But as an economy killer, he is without equal.
From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110731/OPINION03/107310303/EPA-raises-risk-of-blackouts#ixzz1U0v2UyWh
