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the mistake is believing the EPA exists to provide a clean environment. In reality, much (though certainly not all) is devoted to delivering a comeuppance to corporations and businesses, and providing a means to shakedown political foes. Makes the organization difficult to support, even if you are a proponent of a cleaner environment.

i deal with them a lot...all they want is money. they don't give a shite about the emissions. they are making hand over fist from the diesel generator business right now.

as a result, we pass these costs along to the customer. customer's have no choice but to buy these generators because the fed's tell them that it is required by law to have a back up system

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Posted on 12/1/14 at 3:40 pm to redfieldk717

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i deal with them a lot...all they want is money. they don't give a shite about the emissions.

Government often cloaks itself in "good works" to grab power. If they came out and said "we're going to start a department to harass business and collect fundraising for re-election" no reasonable person would support it.

But... When they say they are starting a department to "keep the environment clean"... who could be against that? It's easy to pummel any opposition with the "you just want a dirty environment to kill children with". It's bait.

It's why I'm so skeptical of "Net Neutrality". And I wish more had been more skeptical of the formation of Homeland security. Just think if he Bush administration came out and said "this will be an organization to listen to your phone calls and read your email" almost no one would have supported it.

The desire to "do something"... Is often more damaging that the supposed crisis.

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