#2 Actually, if you look back to how things were before the EPA, the EPA has fulfilled a function - the Cuyahoga River no longer catches fire. Of course, that is mainly because all the factories and refineries have shut down.
The problem is that a regulator's job is to regulate. If everyone is following the regulations, the only thing to do is to make more regulations.
One of the reasons that China is eating our industrial lunch is that they don't have the strict environmental regulations that we do. As a result, in some cities you can not only see the air, you can practically chew it. One way to get rid of the EPA would be to send them on a trip to one of the big industrial cities in China. They would immediately die of heart attacks. |