Can't You Quit Spewing Poison Into the Atmosphere?

If you just stop exhaling we can all live forever:

Don't exhale.

That advice may need heeding if the Environmental Protection Agency declares carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases dangerous pollutants, a move -- expected in the next couple weeks -- that would require the federal government to impose new rules limiting emissions.

But some skeptics say regulating carbon dioxide, a byproduct of burning fossil fuels, may be a difficult task, especially since people emit carbon dioxide with every breath.

"The EPA doesn't have the manpower to implement the regulations the way they would have to be," said David Kreutzer, senior policy analyst in energy economics and climate change at the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Kreutzer said new regulations would trigger a flood of lawsuits, would create massive paperwork and the EPA should have no reasonable expectation that people would comply.

There is going to come a point, and it may be sooner than we think, when great numbers of Americans are simply going to rise up an tell the government "NO!" and do so very emphatically. It may be on taxes, it may be on environmental issues, Obamacare, who knows. All I know is the Tea Party movement has shown us that Americans who have never been political activists before can get mad enough to put feet to their beliefs and take on the government.