Nobody here ever said they liked pollution or living in it.
It is a bit short sighted to think closing the EPA will make things cleaner, so yes, that is exactly what people here have said. It is the same irrational argument of beheading someone who makes mistakes. The EPA is meant to clean up the environment, and that is what they do. Do they go overboard in some ways? Sure, just as every business tries to push forward. They are a government agency, which instantly means they are for-profit. It also means they are open to lobbyist groups' influence and political pressure. It is the nature of government to be corrupt. Do you want to close the government entirely, too? If so, then we're taking on a whole different discussion.
If the environmental zealots really cared they would leave the comfort of the "western world" and protest in Mexico and the far east .
And at every summit and global meeting, they are there protesting. Of course people will protest more in their own back yards, as it is cheaper/easier and, frankly, more likely to get results. If everyone protested in their own back yards, nobody would
have to leave their country to fight for cleaner industry.
Equipment is way past the point of diminishing returns with fuel efficiency dropping and cost/complexity increasing to cut the last 1-2%.
Have you ever read up on the efficiency of the internal combustion engine? They are
horribly inefficient (18%-20%). Last 1%? More like last 80%. I have yet to see a single post in which someone has said cars pollute way too much, but even if they did.. they are right, internal combustion engines suck.. gas! Time to push the auto industry to find a better way, or more pointedly, get out of the way of alternatives, such as far more robust mass transit.
There are enviro nazis that will cling to thier positions of power
And that is different from any other position of power, how? This is hardly an EPA specific argument.
These well meaning but clueless and self centered Cultists don't know when to stop.
Seeing as the USA is far behind other countries in mass transit, I hope they keep going until the automotive dam finally breaks and we begin to see alternatives to people driving gas guzzlers into town for a cheeseburger. I would love to see more focus on making mini-cars or purely electric vehicles or modernizing our electric grid to something resembling this century. I find it tough to understand how burying hundreds of billions into the war machine can't be better spent investing it into local research, conversions and modernizations in order to move away from fossil fuels, millions of oversized cars/SUVs/trucks and coal fired power plants.
It seems as though the only people in our way is.. us! We, as a nation, rise up to protect the 'rights' of corporations to sit on technology which can move us forward, then bail out those who are constantly lobbying to keep us back, auto makers, coal industry, big oil, etc.
How does closing the EPA fix any of this?
