EPA Regulation Forces Closure of Texas Energy Facilities, Eliminates 500 Jobs
12th September 2011
Your tax dollars at work. They don’t care, they already have a job, one that’s a lot safer than yours. And besides, you’re just a bunch of poopy-head polluters, so there.
The problem with narrowly focused agencies like the EPA is that the mechanics of what they do requires them to develop a form of tunnel vision — it doesn’t matter whether what they do is smart or stupid, they have to continue to do it regardless because (a) the law requires it and (b) if they don’t do it, no matter how justified their forbearance, they look like they aren’t doing anything … so they get sued by environazis or their funding gets cut or the administrator loses his job or they might even be abolished. So there’s every reason to press ahead with stupid regulations and no reason not to.
September 12th, 2011 at 18:01
Well, at least I won’t be breathing any more of that Texas smog up here in Michigan.
Besides, there are thousands more jobs to be had in Texas; you told me so. These folks should be back at work by Monday at the latest.