The other thing that needs to be brought to the front is the fact that because US companies are the cleanest manufacturers in the world, most of the manufacturing jobs have left.
Adding additional requirements to US business, that no other country has to meet, not only puts a penalty on the US, but adds to the overall global emissions of pollutants because the items still need to be built, they just get built in some schithole where no pollution standards have to be met. Currently 84% of ALL the rivers in China would be posted as unfit for human contact in the US. Not to mention the air quality.
Cleanest manufacturers since when?
Another similar farce pulled on us by our government was methanol. We subsidized the farmers to grow it, subsidized the plants to produce it, paid a penalty on the price of cars to run with it, ruined many engines using it. And the actual bottom line..... It causes more carbon emmisions to go through the process of growing and refining it for use than just burning gas in the first place. Plus, the increase in price caused by being subsidized, drove up the costs of almost every food product in the world......:cuss:
Well we have to use methanol here yearly and probably a lot of gas companies in NA have filtrated methanol in the Gas since day one so why now the sudden engine problems ?
Why aren´t we facing any?
Regarding the price of it all..it´s the Judgement day right here no need to be so negative. look at the possibilities within the emission industry and create US jobs.
And some info about China...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol#United_States
As of August 27, 2008 China surpassed the United States as the biggest emitter in the world of CO2 from power generation, according to the Center for Global Development.[46] On a per capita basis, however, the emission by the power sector in the U.S. is still nearly four times that in China. The top ten power sector emitters in the world in absolute terms are China, the United States, India, Russia, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, and South Korea. If the 27 member states of the European Union are counted as a single country, the E.U. would rank as the third biggest CO2 polluter, after China and the United States. In per capita terms, emissions from the U.S. power sector are the second highest in the world. The production of electricity in the U.S. produces about 9.5 tons of CO2 per person per year, compared to 2.4 tons per person per year in China, 0.6 in India, and 0.1 in Brazil. The average per capita emission from electricity and heat production in the E.U. is 3.3 tons per year. Only Australia, at greater than 10 tons per year, emits more power-related emissions per person than the U.S does.
In a related report, Canadian economists Jeff Rubin and Benjamin Tal issued a report dated March 27, 2008, The Carbon Tariff[47] Relying on data from a variety of sources, including the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Rubin and Tal ground their proposal for a carbon tariff in striking facts, including the following:
China’s GHG emissions have increased by 120% since the beginning of the decade, while U.S. emissions have increased 16% over the same period;
China now exceeds the United States as the single largest GHG emitter, and accounts for more than a fifth of global GHG emissions;
China relies more heavily on coal-fired power plants, the most GHG-intensive energy source, than do most OECD countries. Between now and 2012, the increase in Chinese coal-based emissions will exceed the entire level of coal-based emissions in the United States.
In June 2007, China unveiled a 62-page climate change plan and promised to put climate change at the center of its energy policy and insisted that developed countries had an “unshirkable responsibility” to take the lead on cutting greenhouse gas emissions and that the principle of "common but differentiated responsibility", as agreed up in the UNFCCC, should be applied.[48][49]
China stated the criticisms of its energy policy were unjust.[50] It is unfair to compare among different countries, since China alone makes up one-fifth of the world's population and the per capita emission in China was low compared to the emission in the industrialized world. Even after one combines the population of the E.U., the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea, China would still outnumber them by a few hundred million. A comparison of yearly emissions also neglects the cumulative amount generated by developed countries. Studies of carbon leakage also suggest that nearly a quarter of China's emissions result from production of goods exported to developed countries.[51]
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We ended up hiring a defense lawyer that specializes in EPA matters. 2 years later she was able to show they were fining us for things that weren't illegal, that weren't legal anymore but were when we were checked (and we had since changed to comply with new laws), or had mis-represented the data when in fact we were in compliance. Finally they were stuck on this last item that was BS and they wanted $5,000 for it. She advised we could fight it too, but just pay the $5K and let them walk away thinking they at least got something......2 years and $40,000 to the lawyer later we were done. 
