Obama has gotten his cap-and-trade through the back door, ignoring the will of the people, the constitution and congress which has been made irrelevant under this regime. He did it via executive order granting the tree hugging kooks at the EPA unlimited powers, and you and I are about notice… in the pocketbooks.

Yes, the EPA needs to be eliminated. I have no doubt some will scream bloody murder at that. One then needs to ask, can’t you function in life without the EPA? It has far outlived its usefulness and purpose and has evolved in to powerful government agency filled with environmental zealots pushing a 1960′s hippy-type, tree hugging agenda that will cost us billions if not trillions.

When I said Obama is intentionally destroying this country, this new EPA nonsense proves it. It also proves Obama and the EPA are creating poverty. Why would anyone willingly attempt to hurt you financially?  I dunno, ask Obama.

Now, here’s another one. Obama has created more poverty in this country than any other president in modern history with no sign of stopping. So what are the poor going to do with the increased utility bills they will need to pay? Create another government spending program to help them? We don’t have any money, how is that going to work? Oh! I know! “Tax the rich.” The Obama ideology is what Prime Minister Thatcher once said many years ago. “He would rather the poor be poorer, so long as the rich don’t get any richer.” That is his core belief. Actions speak louder than words, and his actions have validated what I just wrote.

Our neighbor to the east, Wisconsin, has already sounded the alarm on these new rules in a story from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel entitled, Utilities warn of higher rates because of pollution rules:

Two state utilities said this week new federal pollution rules will lead to higher electricity costs come January.

Wisconsin Public Service Corp. of Green Bay said it would see higher costs of about $32.6 million in 2012 from the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule that was finalized recently by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. That will result in rates going up by 6.8%.

On Thursday, Wisconsin Power & Light Co. of Madison said it would face an additional $9 million in costs linked to the air pollution rule. With the change, the utility is now seeking an increase in 2012 of $20 million.

Todd Stuart, executive director of the Wisconsin Industrial Energy Group, criticized the increases, and he noted that large energy users like paper mills will see higher than average increases, compared with homeowners and small businesses. Paper mills served by WPS could see a 9% hike, he said.

“The EPA’s new rules have directly resulted in a major new cost for struggling homeowners and manufacturers,” Stuart said in a statement. “Members of Congress should be taking a very hard look at the significant compliance costs of EPA’s new mandates.”

That’s bad policy with bad results, worse if you live in Texas as they are preparing for rolling blackouts directly due to Obama-EPA rules. The Star-Telegram reports:

The head of the Texas Public Utility Commission expressed concern Friday that a new federal air quality rule, set to take effect Jan. 1, will cause disruptions in electric service.

If implementation of the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule is not delayed, “I have no doubt in my mind that this rule will result in reliability issues and rolling outages in Texas,” Donna Nelson said at the start of the commission’s meeting.

“Curtailing plant and/or mine operations will be the only option” if the 1,323-page rule goes into effect as planned, Luminant said.

In an Aug. 4 letter to the EPA, Nelson said that the new rule is “overly burdensome” and that the federal agency “has ignored the effects of local transmission constraints when considering the impact of generating-plant retirements on electric reliability.” Nelson became the PUC’s chairwoman after former Commissioner Barry Smitherman was appointed to the Texas Railroad Commission last month.

You know what the thing is? This doesn’t have to happen. But Obama and the EPA are going to make it happen. And for what? Hmmm? What?