Henry Frac'ing Waxman! Redux
A reprise of a Vladimirian post from November, 2007
This, from a
RedState 2.0 post by yr humble correspondent over a year
ago:
In their never-ending quest to extend EPA’s regulatory tentacles
into all phases of our lives, Congressional Democrats, professional
hysteria-mongers, give us this:“Oil and gas companies can pump hundreds of thousands of
gallons of fluid — containing any number of toxic chemicals — into
sources of drinking water with little or no accountability,” said
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the Oversight and
Government Reform Committee.Rep. Waxman, with all due respect, sir, that
statement is either 1) grossly misinformed and irresponsible; or 2)
a bald-faced lie.If given this new regulatory responsibility, the EPA, one of the
slowest-moving and blindly anti-business of the Federal
bureaucracies, will decrease our energy security while making oil
and natural gas more expensive for the consumer. …
Regulating fracturing fluid, of all things, is grossly
unnecessary. This kind of willfully ignorant thinking and
overregulation will cost our country whatever shot we had at energy
security.
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