EPA Hamstrings Country Yet Again

Well, as many of you have already seen, the EPA is attempting to classify CO2 (that's Carbon Dioxide) as a poisonous substance. In doing this, it allows them to REGULATE it. So, lets look at this as the joke that it is...

1. Every time a person exhales, they are now not only a polluter, but a danger to their fellow humans (and the Earth).

2. Farmers and ranchers, who have an untold amount of livestock, are now industrial polluters, since they are 'pumping' untold tons of CO2 into the air every year.

3. Numerous other funny things.

Why do I say it is funny? Because CO2 is NATURAL. It is a part of the AIR! Plants 'eat' it to make oxygen. It puts bubbles in your soda or beer. Without it, we would die (not just from flat beer, but from a lack of fuel for plants to make new oxygen)!

"Oh, Joe, you're such a stupid Libertarian," you say, "the EPA doesn't want to get RID of CO2, they just want to make sure 'too much' isn't being pumped into the atmosphere! Al Gore said it is a culprit in Global Warming, which we all know to be true!!!!"

Silly, silly friend. The height of hubris is believing that Man can somehow do a better job than Nature when it comes to regulating the planet.

Yes, I'll concede that civilization outputs more CO2 than during our pre-Industrial Revolution ancestors. That, however, is not a reason to regulate a naturally-occurring gas.

This all boils down to one thing and ONE THING ONLY, friends: CONTROL. The Federal Government is using UNELECTED BUREAUCRATS to Shanghai yet another part of our liberty. Every step one of these agencies makes towards regulation is another chunk of our freedom being STRIPPED from us.

I urge you to call your Senators and Congressman and DEMAND hearings on this outrage. DEMAND that the ELECTED BODY debate and vote on whether these agencies of red-tapers should have the right to lay down laws as they see fit. FORCE THEM to put their reputation (and thus jobs) on the line and vote in FAVOR of less freedom!