An emission reduction of 15 percent would cost an average family at least $1,400 a year, the congressional agency says.
Commentary: EPA’s iron fist won’t curb ‘warming’
Jay Ambrose / Scripps Howard News ServiceOne way or the other, the powers that be are determined to do something big, bold and dumb to try to stop supposedly catastrophic global warming, and here’s my suggestion: a nationwide voodoo dance.
It’s true that tens of millions hopping crazily about in the streets would accomplish nothing, but neither will the far more mischievous plot in which the Environmental Protection Agency will do the hopping, going from source to source to stifle greenhouse gas emissions. J. Scott Armstrong is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and someone alarmed about alarmists. With two other students of forecasting, he has observed that apocalypse predictors have been repeatedly wide of the mark.
