Global Warming Regulations - More Harm Than Good

The Heritage Foundation thinks that whatever the EPA is about to do about carbon dioxide emissions, it's bound to do more harm than good:

Proposed Global Warming Bills and Regulations Will Do More Harm Than Good
by Ben Lieberman

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving forward aggressively to regulate fossil fuels in the name of fighting global warming. Recent agency proposals would start with emissions standards for cars and trucks, but these would likely lead to subsequent regulations affecting a million or more businesses and other energy-using entities.

Even the EPA itself admits that regulations will be burdensome, and it has not hidden the Obama Administration's strategy of threatening unworkable regulations to spur Congress to pass legislation instead.[1] The Waxman-Markey and Kerry-Boxer bills, like the proposed regulations, are an expensive and ineffective response to the overstated threat of global warming. Indeed, the best answer is: none of the above.

Read the rest of their analysis here. Unfortunately, thanks to a Supreme Court ruling we don't have to wait for cap-and-tax to pass before the government can hit us with onerous carbon regulations.